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 What fucking purpose does this book serve? Nothing! 
 Seeing the cover from afar, I thought it looked great. Really interesting choice of vibrant colors. Up close, good fucking bye. The cover looks shitty. And not to mention how boring it was, it was straight up 1-star since the beginning. I was so pissed off to the point where I wanted to DNF this book so much, but the thought of having its sequel already stopped me (and also, waiting to rant about it). I have a lot to complain about this book, and let me tell you. 
 "Curling one hand around his neck, she pulled him down, expecting a slow kiss. Instead his mouth came hard against her and melted her bones." 
 God, I'm hyperventilating. 
 1. Writing: Really, this type of writing style doesn't attract anything. It pushes it away. I couldn't find this either attractive or captivating. It was entirely boring. Its inability to grip me since the beginning turned me off already and that's one of the reasons why I wanted to DNF this book. I wasn't hooked to the book and I wished to finish this book as fast as possible because I didn't want to deal with it. It was purely disgusting with the choice of words used to describe what the characters were doing. It may seem metaphorical, but it is not. If you're looking for a poetic, well-composed, and beautiful writing, find The Wrath & the Dawn. 
 2. Genre: Do I need to be reminded again what genre this book is? I was quite clear it was sci-fi. And now it didn't give me the fucking sci-fi book I had expected. This book is a stupid and horrendous example of YA fiction. It showed a planet, which name is L'eihr, that's for aliens. Okay, the planet was exactly like Earth, aliens looked like humans; there wasn't any differences and they had their stupid negotiation and emails could be sent within the matter of short time. That's so fucking unique and special and original, Melissa Landers. 
 3. Plot: I had been expecting so so so much from it, that there would be plot that would blow me away and there wasn't, that's why this book is a piece of shit. Cara and Aelyx going to school, that's it, end of Alienated. I was unable to drag myself into the book again once I put it down because it was that boring. I couldn't contain myself from gagging as those 'romantic' scenes with Cara and Aelyx because it was so fucking disgusting; I couldn't find any other word to describe how I felt. And by the time this book reached the end, I fell asleep. 
 4. Characters: To be honest, I expected Cara to be an intelligent girl because she was declared as a valedictorian, but she's not. She's an idiotic, brainless girl. She kept up with bad lies and acknowledged it to be good, she made horrid, ludicrous decisions. She was ONLY drawn to that asshole for only one reason: she loved him. I'm going to fucking flip my table. Our beautiful, gorgeous Aelyx. He's a fucking asshole. He was so pretentious and condescending for an alien character. He basically said what popped up in his brain, if he had one at all. I hated both protagonists and that fundamentally made me want to burn this book. 
 5. Names: I'm not joking, but terrible names turn me off. Seriously? What if you get into a book and you can't even pronounce a name right? It's irritating. Why couldn't these characters have better names? Why were they given such terrible names, especially Aelyx? 
 6. Social problems: Maybe it's just me, but what I found are: stereotypes, discriminations, girls against girls. Most stereotypes and discriminations are seriously from Aelyx and that's why he's an asshole. This girls against girls is so immature and unacceptable. Those girls at school are just dragging each other down, and detesting each other. I can't stand this. I freaking can't. 
 Overall: What a stupid book! I feel terribly sorry for myself for picking it up. I wouldn't recommend it to anyone, anyone at all. It was boring, terrible, idiotic. I wish I hadn't bought its sequel, I wouldn't want to read it anymore, but I'm going to try and expect it to be better than this one.