Leaving by Ally Condie
Published by Harper Teen on September 20, 2011
Genres: Dystopian
Format: ARC
Source: Publisher
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Leaving is one of those stories that could be good but wasn’t really.  Ally Condie started off strong but there was just too much information missing from the story for to truly love it.  It was almost like it was the beginning of a story and she just decided not to bother writing the ending.

At first I thought Leaving was set in the same world as Ally Condie’s Matched trilogy but it quickly became clear that this was set in a different futuristic world.  However, that’s about all I knew about the world Leaving was set in.

Sora, the main character, is considered an untouchable (whatever that is) and her father has left her (I still don’t know what exactly happened to him) and nobody associates with her at all (except this one guy.)  Seriously, that’s about the gist of the whole story or at least that’s what I took away from it.

Overall, I honestly don’t have much to say about this one other than skip it.  I truly have no idea what the point of the story was.