Whereas the first installment in this series gives readers a sense of Melody and what the stakes are for her, this book homes in much more on Harmony. While important to the plot, the writing and story here are clunky, but in these moments, Harmony's voice and character shine through. Melody's pregnant, too, with twins, and now the world waits eagerly for their Double Double Due Date. Melody desperately wants Harmony back in her life, and she makes it her mission to rescue her. More than that, though, she's due soon to give birth to twins. A year out from reading Bumped, I was a little lost for a while (partially my fault and partially because the first 1/3 or so of Thumped is the weakest).Īfter Bumped, Harmony returns to Goodside, a community where religious beliefs are law in order to maintain a sort of utopian world (it's where she grew up and was comfortable) but she's anything but happy here. The scariest thing about Thumped - a story told about a futuristic dystopia where teen girls have their bodies sold for reproductive purposes - is how eerily similar it is to our own world right now.īefore saying a whole lot more, I'll say it's absolutely essential to read Bumped before diving into this one or it will make no sense at all.
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