Talk:The 100 (Novel)/@comment-26124026-20150219012754

The book sucks so much in comparison to the show. I read the first two last night and found them to be choppy and lacking in plot. In the series there is an urgent reason to be sending the 100 to Earth, the Ark is failing and they are running out of oxygen, but in the books there is no such problem. When the 100 land on Earth, in both the books and show, they encouter previously unknown people who live there. In the show, though, conflict arises imediately with them and in the books we don't find out about people living on the ground until much later making the expirence much less interesting to read about. The characters are all stale and all except Glass and Lilly, who aren't in the series, are better replaced by their tv counterparts. Clarke's parents are a mystery in the books when it is discovered a possibility that they could have come to Earth instead of being executed, but Clake's backstory with them portrays much less of an emotional connection to them than in the show that they are almost irrelevant instead of a key part of the story. The betrayal in the series gives them personality that they are without in the books. The other characters seem to never be in control of there emotions, constantly flipping through states and entirely too dramatic (Wells, I am talking about you Wells). The author somehow manages for their actions to be out of character to the character she has written, far too many times, and all-in-all it just reads as poor fanfiction instead of a novel such a wonderful show is based off of.