The amount and the detail of the description given made it very easy to visualize the outfits and landscapes in the story. As we’ve seen in Veronica Roth’s previous work with the Divergent trilogy, the writing felt somewhat familiar, very descriptive and vivid. Another good example of great dialogue are the bantering bits between Cyra and Akos, it gives you a sense of that despite their circumstances they’re just trying to make the best of a bad situation.

For example, the way in which Ryzek was written at the beginning of the book when he “shares” his currentgift with Cyra was frightening. Another of my favorite parts was how well the main characters were written. My favorite part of the novel was when we the audience, learn what the title of the book means in the story. Cyra comes from the ruling family of Shotet, the Noaveks, and her older brother Ryzek is the tyrannical ruler of their people, who exploits his sister in order to maintain his position. His father is a farmer and he has two older siblings, his brother, Eijeh and his sister, Cisi. Akos’ mother is an Oracle, whose currentgift is allows her to have visions which shows her different versions of what the future could be. While both Akos and Cyra come from high ranking families, Akos in Thuve and Cyra in Shotet, their lives are very different. Our two leads in Carve the Mark are Akos Kereseth and Cyra Noavek who meet each other in less than favorable circumstances and although the meeting between them is forced, both Akos and Cyra realize that they both need each other to survive. For reasons unknown to them, both Akos and his older brother Eijeh are kidnapped by Shotet guards are taken to Shotet by order of Cyra’s brother Ryzek.

Every living thing in the galaxy has a power, a currentgift, which develops itself in each person at different ages. Thuve, is part of a nine nation-planet galaxy system which is regulated by the Assembly. It takes place on the nation-planet called Thuve, in which both the Thuvesit and the Shotet live (although the Shotet call the nation-planet Urek). Here’s my quick explanation to the setting of this story.

Carve the mark