There were too many point of views for me in this book, and the jumping about between characters really threw me off, I couldn't get too invested in the characters as we didn't spend large periods of time with them. The premise is interesting, and it's a fast paced book.

I hate when I can’t relate with a book and when just thinking about it makes me mad… uhmmm when I like a book even if the science is wrong that doesn’t bother me, but when a book kinds of rubs me in a wrong way all in it bothers me…

the premise of the book sounds cool, I like dystopian books, I like YA books, I like post-apocalyptic books, but I didn’t really care for this one… I will give an example of what really break it for me;

“some of the previously activated clones had reached middle age but failed to reproduce, refusing to find life partners or losing life partners to FED”

and then some lines after it says

“For all of them to have killed themselves was beyond her comprehension. Some had chosen to do this early in their lives and others into their twenties. None had reached beyond the age of thirty” This part of the book really got me so mad… like they had reached middle age, but none had reached beyond the age of thirty, so its thirty middle age, was this book written by a 12 years old?.

Other thing that gets me mad is how naïve the main character is… she must be afflicted with Stockholm syndrome, she completely trusts the same people that forcefully kidnapped her in the middle of the street…

I am sorry but this book wasn’t for me… thank you NetGalley for the free ARC and I am leaving this review voluntarily.

A flesh eating disease about to take out humanity? One girl that is immune that could be the key to a vaccine? Yes, I'm up for that - especially given the times we live in right now.

There were too many POVs. And all those many POVs had short chapters, it felt like hopping from one character to another. I never got to connect with the characters.

Thank you to NetGalley and The Readers Guild for an advance reader copy in exchange for an honest review.

I started this book, and it just really didn't hook me and so I chose to put this book down and not finish it. This by no means is a bad book, I just didn't gel with it unfortunately.

In a future where an awful virus has spread and left a lot of damage, we find an immune girl who is really valuable to a lot of people.

So… that was confusing.
I really liked the premise of this book. It sounded so interesting and I was really in the mood for a sci-fi ish story like this, but it ended up being really disappointing.

It started ok, I was really into the plot in the first 15% or so. But then a lot of things started happening at once and I got so lost. There’s too much information barely explained, and everything started happening way too fast. A girl who knows nothing about anything that’s happening in the world, gets kidnapped and just accepts helping her kidnappers after like, a day? That’s when I started feeling how rushed the story was.

About the characters… there are so many characters, I couldn’t connect with any of them, I didn’t even like them nor dislike them. And even though there wasn’t exactly insta-love in the story, it definitely felt like it due to the lack of character development.

I wish I loved this story as much as other people did.

Thanks to Netgalley and The Book Guild for the e-arc in exchange for an honest review

Thank you netgalley for providing this ARC in exchange for an honest review.
While this has a promising premise of a flesh eating disease ravishing the human population, the short and abrupt POV ruin the readers ability to get to know the characters. There is also this unnatural, almost polite dialogue between characters that is unrealistic in an end-of-world novel. Just not what I was expecting.

I think that the premise of this book is good. The description really sold me on it. The idea that there is a flesh eating disease about to cause the extinction of mankind and there are very few immune to it. The one's who've had it and survive cannot carry their pregnancies to full term because of the "cure" so finding a vaccine is the only way to really save humankind. I wanted to love this and give it 5 stars. But alas I could not.
For me, this book fell short in it's use of multiple (shared) POV's and quick chapters. You're quickly introduced to many characters and most chapters with these characters are mostly three pages max. Sometimes you only hear from that character once or twice and they don't narrate again. Like Barry and his friends, or Amery, or even Angus I don't feel like I really needed his story line. Maria/Selina's story and Deter/Lincoln's story were the most important and I felt like the other characters really hindered the ability for those two to shine. I was also lost on what continent I was supposed to be on too. We'd be in New York with Angus, jump to London for Deter, then Maria would be talking about New York but walking about London. It got confusing. Plus the ending was very confusing with who was there (to my knowledge this is not a series? If it was that would alleviate the confusion at the end). If the characters were pared down and we, as readers, really got to know the main ones and be invested in their relationships to each other this would have been a 5 star book.

I enjoyed the premise of this story and I do think that it has potential but I found myself struggling with the narrative of the story. The premise of a Flesh-Eating Disease (FED) and the story highlighting the social-economic gap was something that I did enjoy. However, there were a lot of different character POVs and it made it difficult to bond with any of them.

The story quickly flits between the different perspectives and settings of the novel and I wasn’t sure what was happening from one chapter to the next. The chapters are short so you never stay with one character long enough to really get their story and I didn’t find the main protagonists Lincoln and Deter particularly interesting. One thing that irked me was that the story moves so quickly at the beginning of the novel that the decision that she made seemed to come out of nowhere. We didn’t really get to know the Faction before the story quickly moved them from the headquarters. A character that I did find a little more interesting was Maria, you could see clearly what her motivations were but we didn’t get enough of her to connect to her and we never got to see the progress from the hairdressers to where she was at the end.

The changing perspective and scenery took me out of the story a lot and I found it extremely difficult to connect with the story. I wish I was able to connect to the story more because it was a premise that I found interesting.

Thank you NetGalley and Book Guild for providing me with an ARC copy in exchange for an honest review.

I found the book to be very confusing and boring to read, it felt like there was no plot and instead it was just a bunch of chapters from different characters thrown together. The book moves really fast with changes of setting and POVs which meant that I never connected to any of the characters and so did not care for their story.

The start of the book and blurb hint that the book is about finding a cure using the main characters genes however after the kidnapping and the initial confusing chapters which jump between the past and the present, the book changes and does not focus on this aspect that much.

I was expecting there to be more focus on the main character and how she deals with the 2 different groups that are dealing with the virus however the book then deals with other characters and how their lives are impacted by the virus. And from these other characters, I only found one story interesting and even then I did not feel connected to the character.

I did not like the ending, everything felt rushed and there was little explanation as to what was going on.

1/5

I love a good chosen one trope and Measure of Days didn't disappoint! This is an easy to read YA dystopian that would probably be suitable even from mid teen upwards. The world has suffered from the effects of Flesh Eating Disease (FED) for many years and have seen a drastic widening of the economic gap between those in poverty and those with wealth. A huge divide has been created with warring factions who each seek to control FED in different ways. Deter is a teenage girl who not only is completely unaware of the existence of FED but is an immune! Both factions would love to get their hands on her to use her for their experiments.
This is a believable dystopian view of the world with a likeable cast of characters and a progression of society that can easily be imagined to be true.
The only problem I had with the book was in figuring out the timeline. Sometimes I didn't know if days, weeks or months had passed between events which made the development of characters relationships and understanding difficult to get my head around. At times there was a sort of sense of time passing but it wasn't made clear.
I knew from around the 80% mark that there wasn't going to be a resolution to the story and was anticipating a cliff hanger. And boy did I get a cliffhanger! I thoroughly enjoyed Measure of Days and will be eagerly anticipating the sequel.

This is a quick, mostly engaging, fast paced read. The author has a good imagination and obviously put a lot of thought into the story. Overall, a good, not great, read. Maybe best for YA readers.

Thank you for the review copy!!

The premise of the book had me hooked! Dystopian world with an illness without a cure, a hapless protagonist who has lived shielded from any horrors.

Interestingly the book explores the impact on the disease on multiple members of society and the way it can impact them. There were many twists and turns at the start of the narrative as everything was very fast paced as our protagonist and those surrounding her kept facing new situations. I thought the society in which the novel was set was unique in many wells and well written, it was refreshing to read about a new dystopian world.

My main critique of the book would be that there were too many different POVs introduced at once, each were short so it was hard to get a feel for each of the characters, though I appreciate the stories they were telling, it would have perhaps been easier to have Deter as the main POV with fewer interludes from other characters so the sections could be fleshed out to their full potential.

That aside, it was a quick and easy read, good for a few hours of escapism.

Thank you to NetGalley, the author and Matador for a digital ARC of this book in exchange for an honest review.

I was really intrigued by the concept of the story, I felt like it was something that I could enjoy, however, the story and character development disappointed me. Parts felt a little disjointed.

There are aspects that engaged me, for example, the questioning of ethical aspects of the society in which the plot is set.
I would love to have seen many of the characters developed more. I felt that Deter's decisions to side with the rebellion seemed to occur out of nowhere and I found it difficult to believe it.
Overall, it was mostly enjoyable and I would probably recommend to a younger reader than myself.

Thank you to Net Galley for the opportunity to read and review this book.

This is a fast-paced story that I read in one sitting. The short chapters worked well for me and actually served to propel me forward. The premise is pretty relevant and scary with what is going on in the real world, but was still an enjoyable fictional escape. This story is set in the aftermath of a flesh eating virus changing humanity. I liked the way different people were affected, and the way it made their roles in story unique. There were several layers to how the virus could have affected someone depending on if they were damaged, complete, or treated before too much damage was done... or immune. It is told from multiple point of views which allows you to get a good visual of what is going with and away from Deter.

I was sadly disappointed by this book. The beginning was fast-paced and interesting but it quickly went downhill from there. I was confused by the different POV’s and wasn’t able to develop any connection with the characters. It was also hard to stay rooted in the story and I found it so difficult to stay invested.

DNF at 25% I just couldn't connect with it. I found it complicated and confusing with so many characters involved. I wouldn't recommend this

I loved how fast paced this story was and easy to read.

I found the premise quite interesting and eerily relevant in today’s society.

The writing style is very different with multiple POV’s. This is a little off-putting however I found that what really mattered was the story and not so much the characters in this one.

The chapters were also quite short which is one thing that I really like in a book (it makes me keep reading).

Overall, it wasn’t too bad and a good read.

I loved the first half of this fast paced and kept me on the edge of my seat, but then it just lost my interest. Just too many POVs , flirted around far too much and the short chapters meant I didn’t learn enough to bond with most of the characters. It’s a shame as if it continued the way it started I would have been giving it five stars.

Thanks to netgalley and the publisher for a free copy for an honest opinion

I really like the premise of this book and the overall world building. The author obviously put some thought into how society would evolve in this situation.

However this book is very confusing at times and tends to jump around a bit. I think it could've benefitted from just following the protagonist, Deter, and learning about other people and events as she was learning about it. It would perhaps also bring confusion but it would make us relate with Deter a lot more.

With the constant jumping between characters and quite small chapters, I don't feel likely I've built a relationship with any of the characters. Plus the jumping around sometimes seemed like how you would write a television show. In TV not everything needs to be explained, in literature I would very much like clear explanations.

All in all, it was an OK read. The idea behind it is probably my favourite part, and I felt really bad for Maria in her situation. It reminded me of Les Miserables.

Thank you to Netgalley for providing me with a free copy of this book in exchange for an honest review.

A super adventurous and daring book for any reader who loves some adventure. This book was absolutely amazing to read, from the intro, the middle and to the end.