I was sent an advance copy of The Genesi Code by the author, Tristen Willis, in exchange for an honest review. Please note that this review will be my honest thoughts and feelings towards the book.

I also was part of a buddy read with an amazing group of girls from Bookstagram.

The Genesi Code follows Luka, an eighteen year old girl who has spent the last 10 years of her life training alongside her best friend, Harvey, to be accepted in the Delta Force, a military task force, in the hopes of finding the truth surrounding her father’s murder. Before her father’s death he had been working on a cure for the Genesi Code, a genetic enhancement that the government had created to enhance their armies that tragically went wrong.

When I received this book I was so excited to read it, the synopsis sounded interesting and from what I read it was a dystopian styled novel, and as I generally don’t read dystopian novels I was ready to give it a go and see what I thought.

The synopsis did not give this book the justice it deserved, the plot sucked me in and once I got into the story I had to keep reading just to find out what would happen next.

I enjoyed the writing style, it was very descriptive meaning that it didn’t take me long to picture the locations or any surrounding that were given, the conversations between characters were realistic and because of the flow of the writing I found myself sucked into the story after a number of chapters. That being said it took me around 5 chapters to get into the story and it was only after those chapters that I became obsessed and pretty much read the whole book in one sitting.

The characters were all amazing, each one was well written and added an essential spark into the story, from the beginning it was easy to tell which characters to hate, which ones to love and which ones to keep an eye on.

For me the characters make the story, if I don’t like the lead character I will struggle to read the book no matter how well it is written, so it was so great to have such a wide array of characters and to have Luka as the lead bad-ass.

It took me a bit of time to really like Luka, she is a strong and smart female character, one I would love to have more of in books, but because of this she seemed emotionally distant from others at the beginning of the book. It took a little time but by the middle of the book I was calling her my strong ass-kicking baby and loving her.

Speaking of loving characters I want to talk about Harvey as he has officially become one of my book babes! (Welcome to the club darling just take a seat next to Cassian)

Harvey didn’t take long to fall in love with, he is a strong, caring and smart boy who would anything to help and protect Luka as well as anyone he cares about. I think Harvey was well written and essential to have from the beginning of the book, as he gives that caring character that we don’t get from Luka right away.

At times while reading I did find the time jumping factor (of days and weeks) to be a bit annoying, as I love knowing what’s happening, but I understood that it was essential to keep the story flow going and not drag it out with unnecessary details and as this is going to be a series I’m sure I will get my fill of information as the books are released.

Rating 4 Stars- Really good, I would recommend reading it

I would recommend this book to anyone looking for an enjoyable dystopian read filled with interesting characters, secrets and a lot of ass-kicking. As soon as I finished it I was pushing it into my best friend’s hands telling her to read just so I had someone to talk about the story with.

The official release date for The Genesi Code is September 1st which is only a few days away so you can still pre-order it from Bookdepository, Booktopia and Amazon.

Now if you will excuse me I am going to stare out the window and wait for the next books release date to be announced because I need it now.... please?

Happy reading everyone!
Jess