Empty by Suzzane Weyn was a book that I had to force myself to finish. The overall story bored me to the point that I was skipping many pages at once to get it over with. From the blurb I was expecting a fast moving dystopian sci-fi novel filled with suspense , action and adventure but instead I found a teenage romance novel with yet another love triangle! Don't get me wrong, I do like a good romance novel but the romance was anything but good. It was practically dead and well... plain boring. The story was poorly developed with barely anything interesting happening. The idea for the dystopian world was obviously plausible but lacked enough detail to give readers the sense that the author gave the idea enough thought. The time in which scenes occurred was vague, along with details of what exactly happening in the world around them . The story seemed 'meddled up' , being anything but smooth. 
 I also noticed that Empty was written using the technique of 3rd person omniscient(not to be mistaken with 3rd person) , which allows the author to write in 3rd person not concentrating on merely one character but all the characters. This technique , when well used , can be very effective but Suzzanne Weyn did NOT use it well. Instead she create a story that seemed stilted in pace , slightly confusing and annoying to read. 
 Frankly, at the beginning of the book nothing happened besides the characters going on with their daily lives , I kept reading in hopes that eventually something would happen. 
 I didn't enjoy the characters in the book, they were bland and their dialogue was awkward. The author didn't work with the setting that she created . For a majority of the novel more focus was given to the personal lives of the characters. Which as a consequence overshadowed the one message that I liked about the book - how dependent we are on things such as oil and gas. 
 Also, the story ended in a way that seemed unrealistic and almost to easy... 
 Despite everything I still managed to finish the book so it might not have been as bad as I made it out to be.