Two words for you people – Robot. Apocalpyse. This Dystopian Fiction / Sci Fi adventure story looks at what happens when robots – created by mankind to fight their wars - decide they are done taking orders and stage a Robot Rebellion. This book is set 20 years after the robots have seized control.Brothers and sister Nick, Kevin and Cass have lived their entire lives in a Freepost. Kind of like a hippie commune for people who were fortunate enough to escape the major cities when the robots took control. Life there is peaceful, until Kevin unwittingly alerts the robots to their whereabouts. Their parents are captured and taken to the city for identity chipping and re-education. The kids are determined to find them and help them escape. But how can three kids overcome a technologically superior being?This is a cracker of a book, with a sequel on the way. Read my full review at wadingthroughbooks.wordpress.com!The back blurb claims that it comes from the minds of “award-winning writer-directors Howard Gordon and James Wong” and “debut novelist Gregg Rosenblum,” and you can definitely sense the influence of people who work in a visual medium. It reads like it should be a television mini-series, full of excitement and explosions and grown people playing teenagers. As a novel, it comes off as a little bland. It’s a good idea, especially since YA dystopia is so hot right now, but reading it I feel like I’ve seen it all before. There’s nothing new or original here, and it’s not so well written that I’ll forgive the tired ideas and characters. The ending isn’t very satisfactory, because it’s so clearly setting up for a second novel, or rather second movie. This is Terminator-lite. It has a checklist of things include: orphan from the revolution, robot-caused injury that the robots heal, teenage romance, techie-kid, artist-kid, leader-kid, missing parents, a quest, a spunky ally with her own agenda, anti-social tech genius kid attracted to artist-girl, uncaring despotic robot overlords, casual human deaths, mind control, extreme contrast between the technological luxury of the City and the scavenging poverty of the Freeholds, illegal government and angry rebels…There are two more books in the series, and I bet I can predict exactly what happens in them without even reading the summaries. It’s not a bad book, but it’s not good either. It’s a script, not a novel.
What do You think about Devrim 19 (2014)?
I devoured it. Like enough said for me. Looking forward to book 2
—junlos183
