But again, it fell through and left me with a lot of underdevelopment.

During the first half of this book I thought we were going to get that. The premise of this book presents SUCH AN OPPORTUNITY for fascinating character development, interaction, and depth. By the end of this book I was very ready to be finished. Everything felt like a piece to a really obvious puzzle. I felt hit over the head with it, with the obvious themes, the obvious use of character placement and personality. His message literally just came out of the mouths of his characters. It was more of a social commentary than a story. I knew exactly what this author was trying to impress upon me. My main problem with this book’s plot was that it left nothing to the reader. The system of proxy/patrons – basically in which rich kids have a poor kid to pay for their crimes – was interesting, but even that eventually fell into cliches. It was very stereotypically futuristic (does anyone remember that early 2000s Disney Channel movie Pixel Perfect? That’s what this book made me think of). The world of Proxy was not nearly as solid as I wanted it to be. Not only that, everything was plain underdeveloped. That’s what I was expecting to happen as I made my way through the first half of Proxy. But once the second half got started…everything just fell into the same old dystopian thriller cliches. Admittedly, there were some plot points I could already see from a mile away, but I’m always willing to ride them out if the plot is unique enough and the characters are leading the way. It sets up for some great characters and intriguing mystery, but as I neared the middle, as things really start vamping up, it just…fell through.

I was hooked from the first page and flew through the first half of this book. Which is unfortunate, because it started off really strong. He was not unredeemable and he was not a terrorist and he was not just a body they could discard and replace to teach some patron a lesson.

Faced with no other choice but to attempt to beat the system, Syd flees – but not without Knox’s help.

Summary: As a proxy, Syd must pay for someone else’s crimes, so when his patron, Knox, crashes a car and kills someone, Syd is sentenced to pay a terrible price.

Proxy by Alex London