Blog Post On Rootless

I recently read Rootless and I thought it was a pretty good book. It was about Banyan, a boy who build trees out of scrap metal(set in the future) and how he has to rescue his father and with the help of friends that he encounters. I like Rootless, but I had some disagreements with it. First of all, there is a character Zee who you never find out is good or bad. Although she is a good character, it annoys me when endings aren't so clear. There is also a character that is Zee's mother, but turns out to be Banyan's mother, and she has a clone of herself that dies, and well it gets really confusing.
It was a good book, but I felt the ending was a little rushed, because they spent a lot of time in the beginning introducing the characters so the ending was pretty short. The book didn't explain what exactly Banyan did as a tree builder, why would people want fake trees? I feel the author should've added more context about that and maybe skipped over some parts that weren't so important. I felt in all, that the first half of the book a lot of ideas were arising, but the second half of the book they started rushing to an ending.
I still think it was a good book, just not so much my type. If you like fast-paced books, I would recomend it to you. There are also some cool ideas in the book, with the ideas of people so desperate for trees. It reminds me a little of the real world, and made me think about people in general. How desperate can people be? Will you lie, cheat, even murder to save yourself? Also in the book there is a company called Gentech, and it says in the book, "if you find a way to grow corn on your own, Gentech will find you and kill you." (Corn is the only food that people can eat.) I find that scary because I imagine company's that would do that to prevent a secret from coming out.
I heard this is another book in a series so I hope the next book(s) are a bit slower paced. I also hope they answer some of the questions I had from the first book.