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inkandplasma 's review for:
The Second Rebel
by Linden A. Lewis
Full review available on my blog on 9th September 2021: https://inkandplasma.com/2021/09/09/the-second-rebel/
Thanks to Hodder & Stoughton for the review copy of this book, it has not affected my honest review.
Content Warnings: violence, torture and experimentation on humanoid characters (mostly off-page), death, sexual abuse (off-page), blackmail, oppression, sex (off-page), corruption, domestic and child abuse (off-page), viral warfare, suicide.
It actually took me a while to get to reading The Second Rebel, which was partly because I was so, so nervous about this book. I adored The First Sister so much, and I was really worried that The Second Rebel wouldn’t hold up. Especially after my reread of The First Sister reminded me how much I loved the first entry in this series. I should have had more faith in Linden A. Lewis, who will never disappoint, just emotionally scar me.
Our main three from the first book; First Sister (Astrid), Lito and Hiro (who only had flashbacks in book one) are back in this book, with Hiro getting their own chapters this time around, and their stories are still hopelessly, heartbreakingly entwined. We also get to see more from Luce, Lito’s sister and possibly my favourite character in this book. I adored her chapters, even if her character arc was as devastating as all the others.
Astrid’s ‘Ringer’ revelation was one of my favourite moments in The First Sister and I really liked the way that continued to develop throughout The Second Rebel now that we and Astrid knew the truth. It made for a really interesting insight into her mental health and the way that she was coping with the trauma she’d experienced.
Finally hearing Hiro’s narrative voice was fantastic, and I really enjoyed their chapters. They started to unveil some information about the mysterious synthetics, and I’m so interested in where that’s going to go in the third book.
The ending of this book absolutely wrecked me. It was brutal, I’m not going to lie. I can’t talk about any of it, because it’s all entrenched in spoilers but there were three distinct scenes that absolutely destroyed me throughout this book, and I had to pick up something fun and happy immediately afterwards to make myself feel better. It was too devastating. I couldn’t have predicted the way that this book would unfold, and now I have absolutely no idea what’s going to happen in the third book. I do know that it’s probably going to actually make me cry.
Thanks to Hodder & Stoughton for the review copy of this book, it has not affected my honest review.
Content Warnings: violence, torture and experimentation on humanoid characters (mostly off-page), death, sexual abuse (off-page), blackmail, oppression, sex (off-page), corruption, domestic and child abuse (off-page), viral warfare, suicide.
It actually took me a while to get to reading The Second Rebel, which was partly because I was so, so nervous about this book. I adored The First Sister so much, and I was really worried that The Second Rebel wouldn’t hold up. Especially after my reread of The First Sister reminded me how much I loved the first entry in this series. I should have had more faith in Linden A. Lewis, who will never disappoint, just emotionally scar me.
Our main three from the first book; First Sister (Astrid), Lito and Hiro (who only had flashbacks in book one) are back in this book, with Hiro getting their own chapters this time around, and their stories are still hopelessly, heartbreakingly entwined. We also get to see more from Luce, Lito’s sister and possibly my favourite character in this book. I adored her chapters, even if her character arc was as devastating as all the others.
Astrid’s ‘Ringer’ revelation was one of my favourite moments in The First Sister and I really liked the way that continued to develop throughout The Second Rebel now that we and Astrid knew the truth. It made for a really interesting insight into her mental health and the way that she was coping with the trauma she’d experienced.
Finally hearing Hiro’s narrative voice was fantastic, and I really enjoyed their chapters. They started to unveil some information about the mysterious synthetics, and I’m so interested in where that’s going to go in the third book.
The ending of this book absolutely wrecked me. It was brutal, I’m not going to lie. I can’t talk about any of it, because it’s all entrenched in spoilers but there were three distinct scenes that absolutely destroyed me throughout this book, and I had to pick up something fun and happy immediately afterwards to make myself feel better. It was too devastating. I couldn’t have predicted the way that this book would unfold, and now I have absolutely no idea what’s going to happen in the third book. I do know that it’s probably going to actually make me cry.