The Girl in the Box Series, Books 1-3: Alone, Untouched and Soulless

The female protagonist, though strong in physical sense attempts to emulate Katniss but with sarcastic rebukes, saves the world while agents and people around her drop dead and throwing boulders to a female meta just cause she have chiseled beautiful face. If you're ugly, red flag; if you're hot & cutie you're buddies. She got too many fault to list them here and i wouldn't be too surprised if she thinks about beating my face to pieces because of this review. She's strong but comes out as an arrogant bitch.

Once again, a male writing a female protagonist get's it all so horribly wrong. Shocker. Don't get me wrong, it's an engaging story, with just-above Wattpad quality writing (I mean it's free and self-published, and there's a reason I didn't stop reading, even after ableist and sexist remarks from Sienna labelled as "witty comebacks"). A lot of her remarks and thoughts seem very inconsistent with the fact that she had no contact with the outside world for over 10 years (not a spoiler, it's in the first chapter). Suppose most would chalk it up to the hour of tv she was allowed to watch everyday, as if you would pick up on all the nuanced intricacies of social interaction and society through the eyes of Hollywood. I mean I guess I don't regret reading it, but I also wouldn't explicitly reccommend it to anyone.

I struggled to try and split the similarities of this book from the X-Men franchise. But as I read each book after the other, I became more invested in the characters and didn't really care if the premise may have seemed like an X-Men spin-off. It was action-packed fun with a few plot twists to keep you guessing (although only for a split second in most cases). But I did enjoy it and I'm sure if you ignore the comparison to the Marvel-inspired comic series, you will too.