The first volume was amazing, tender and moving. The concept, operating teens to 18 years to prevent them from falling in love, so cruel and absurd that history could only start well, the risk of falling into cliché a little blue flower when the heroine falls, inevitably, love, before the fateful date of its operation.
With this first volume, we vibrated.
With the 2nd too, because then we will see how it recovers from the end of the first volume, and the way to jump headlong into the battle of resistance. Justin was a new rich enough and complex enough character to give new life to this story, which ended on a cliffhanger as the 3rd tome could only make readers impatient stamping.
And ... what a disappointment! Justin and Alex are nothing more than shadows of themselves, Lena seems not to know where she goes, what she should do, and it loses all combativeness. Even Hana, which I adored personality, makes us feel as it should be the weight of the operation she underwent (and yet the idea of parallel narratives to show the feelings of "cured" was more that interesting).
And what about the total lack of emotion in Alex / Lena scenes? These characters who are so loved, who risked everything for each other, if not cold indifference testify that one can not even interpret as a shell for protection from each other. Even in their fight scenes, and their reconciliation, nothing.
What I liked the first volume, it was just that we were entitled to a romantic dystopia that was not silly or too mushy, but still a moving love story. Well we lost with volume 3, and that's a shame.