Twas an improvement from The Goddess Test - that's all I can say... possibly because I actually finished Pawn. 
 Honestly, I'm not sure why I wanted to read Pawn after disliking Aimee Carter's writing and The Goddess Test. Maybe because it was dystopian, with a nice cover to go along with it. And the fact that the synopsis when it was revealed sounded highly intriguing. But the reality upon reading was that the story was quite vapid and the characters uninteresting. 
 I've looked at a number of reviewers on Goodreads that have loved Pawn and saw that they too loved The Selection. Yet here I am, someone who found The Selection a waste of paper even after a couple of chapters. Pawn on the other hand, is not as bad, but it does have a similar vibe, and a better one at that. I guess it's just not my type of dystopia, not my type of story and characters. 
 Kitty. Really? 
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