Reading Response 4: Dark Parties Spoiler Alert!

Dark Parties is about a futuristic world. Neva is a teenager who lives in this washed out and inbred sphere. She, and others, do not like how the government forces the people to stay in the sphere. There are rumors that the sphere is slowly killing everyone inside. All items, other than perhaps food, are recycled in the sphere. All citizens in the sphere look the same unless they get an identification mark, a tattoo. Neva does whatever she can to oppose the government and discover the truth.

Braydon was just Sanna's boyfriend in the beginning. Then he became a cheater by kissing Neva. He continued to bounce back and forth between the two girls, causing a tension to form. Ironically enough, he turned out to be working for the government. He was the snitch about the dark party, and he was the one to turn in Neva's friends. Braydon worked for the government, but he ended up loving Neva. This is known because the last thing he said to her was, "I love you, Neva. No matter what happens, never doubt that." He put his life in jeopardy by lying to let her escape to the outside in the end! He should be pitied: he loves Neva, is stuck with dating Sanna, and might never see Neva again. He reminds me of Loki, the Norse god of mischief and lies, because he does not mean to hurt anyone, yet started so many lies.This is why I chose to use Loki's symbol. He was just doing his job, until he let her escape to freedom and safety that is.

This book was interesting, but left me wanting to know what happened after Neva escaped. When I found out that Braydon was the traitor I remembered my last book, The Hunt of the Unicorn. That is because a main character, who also happened to be male, betrayed the heroine. This was really ironic to me at the time since I had not meant to pick up another book that had betrayal in the story. I would recommend this book to conspiracy theorists since this dabble quite bit in that aspect.