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3.64 AVERAGE
3.64 AVERAGE
This book made me nuts. I wanted to slap Kitty so many times, then I remembered she is only 17 was thrust into a political game that she doesn't know the rules of. However her constant battle of wills and arguing got to me, and I kept hoping that she would gain some maturity given the situations she kept getting thrust into. The story itself however continues to be intriguing and there are some twists I didn't see coming. I will finish this series up and hope that Aimee Carter will turn Kitty into a heroine we can be proud of instead of the whiny, headstrong teen who doesn't trust anyone and always seems to need rescuing.
Wow this book was really good. Looking back I guess I wasn't that big of a fan of the first one but this was waaaaayyy better.
Such an emotional rollercoaster you didn't know who to trust.
Benji is seriously so cute and I love him
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Such an emotional rollercoaster you didn't know who to trust.
Benji is seriously so cute and I love him
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this book reminds me of divergent and I hope kitty doesn't have the same fateEnding
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I can't believe they brought Lila out! Did he make a new one? Because the real one is on their side!
CAPTIVE by Aimee Carter is the sequel to PAWN, both books from the Blackcoat Rebellion Series. Unfortunately because I make really awful jokes I was hoping this book was better than it is only so I could attempt to make a cheesy pun in the review title *sob*.
The Blackcoat Rebellion series is set in a dystopian society where all citizens take a test on their 17th birthday which determines their place in society, I being the lowest and VII the highest (reserved only for those in the Prime Minister’s family). It is hardly an original concept but it does get better. Kitty Doe, an Extra who grows in up a children’s home, takes her test and is given a lowly score of III and is facing a difficult life until she is Masked. Surgically transformed into the niece of the Prime Minister (who no one knows is dead).
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The Blackcoat Rebellion series is set in a dystopian society where all citizens take a test on their 17th birthday which determines their place in society, I being the lowest and VII the highest (reserved only for those in the Prime Minister’s family). It is hardly an original concept but it does get better. Kitty Doe, an Extra who grows in up a children’s home, takes her test and is given a lowly score of III and is facing a difficult life until she is Masked. Surgically transformed into the niece of the Prime Minister (who no one knows is dead).
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Captive by Aimee Carter is the second book in the Blackcoat Rebellion series. This series follows Kitty who lives in a world where your rank determines how you live. She was "masked" to look like Lila a member of the royal family. In the first book we saw her transformation and learned about the rebellion. In Captive, Kitty again finds herself being used as a pawn as others try to gain or maintain control. After she's caught in a compromising position she is sent elsewhere and has to fight to find who is working in her interest while everyone is trying to use her.
I really enjoyed this book. I'm very skeptical when it comes to sequels in dystopian series because so many of them are bad. This book however didn't fall into that trap. The story continued and the new location and characters meshed with the old story and there were surprises and mysteries. The book kept me guessing, interested and I finished it quickly which is notable because I'm in a mood lately where I hate everything and take a while to finish books.
I love Kitty and it's nice to see a girl who has learning disabilities (dyslexia which makes her unable to read) not let them hold her back and succeed despite the challenges they face Her dyslexia is a part of her not the defining characteristic. The romance was not heavy handed and worked nicely and the other relationships continued in a believable manner. The author does a good job at making multifaceted small characters. I can't wait for the next book in the series to find out if Kitty turns from a pawn into a queen.
This is the second book in a series and it should not be read out of order. The book starts right after the second finished but they
Appropriateness: This is a series that teen dystopian fans will enjoy. It is quite violent with battle and mild torture scenes along with people being killed right and left by the bad guys to keep everyone else in control. There is also a sex scene in this book which takes all of three paragraphs and is very vague. So vague that I'd be just fine with my fifth grader reading it. There is no drug or alcohol use (aside from people being drugged instead of shot). I recommend this book to readers 13+ and it would be fine for younger fans of books like The Hunger games (and a good discussion piece on how violence and the fear of violence can be used to control groups of people).
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I really enjoyed this book. I'm very skeptical when it comes to sequels in dystopian series because so many of them are bad. This book however didn't fall into that trap. The story continued and the new location and characters meshed with the old story and there were surprises and mysteries. The book kept me guessing, interested and I finished it quickly which is notable because I'm in a mood lately where I hate everything and take a while to finish books.
I love Kitty and it's nice to see a girl who has learning disabilities (dyslexia which makes her unable to read) not let them hold her back and succeed despite the challenges they face Her dyslexia is a part of her not the defining characteristic. The romance was not heavy handed and worked nicely and the other relationships continued in a believable manner. The author does a good job at making multifaceted small characters. I can't wait for the next book in the series to find out if Kitty turns from a pawn into a queen.
This is the second book in a series and it should not be read out of order. The book starts right after the second finished but they
Appropriateness: This is a series that teen dystopian fans will enjoy. It is quite violent with battle and mild torture scenes along with people being killed right and left by the bad guys to keep everyone else in control. There is also a sex scene in this book which takes all of three paragraphs and is very vague. So vague that I'd be just fine with my fifth grader reading it. There is no drug or alcohol use (aside from people being drugged instead of shot). I recommend this book to readers 13+ and it would be fine for younger fans of books like The Hunger games (and a good discussion piece on how violence and the fear of violence can be used to control groups of people).
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Gevangene is een erg spannend vervolg op Marionet. Het boek had me - net als het eerste - weer onmiddellijk in zijn greep.
Ik hou ervan hoe complex de personages eigenlijk zijn. Alle personages blijven hun eigen agenda hebben waardoor verraad nooit ver weg is. Dit maakt het nog spannender om te lezen. Je weet eigenlijk nooit wat je kan verwachten van sommige personages. Opnieuw gebruikte Carter plot twists die ik niet had zien aankomen.
Ik ben ongelooflijk benieuwd naar het laatste boek, Koningin. Met het spannende einde van Gevangene ben ik wel erg nieuwsgierig hoe alles verder zal verlopen.
Ik hou ervan hoe complex de personages eigenlijk zijn. Alle personages blijven hun eigen agenda hebben waardoor verraad nooit ver weg is. Dit maakt het nog spannender om te lezen. Je weet eigenlijk nooit wat je kan verwachten van sommige personages. Opnieuw gebruikte Carter plot twists die ik niet had zien aankomen.
Ik ben ongelooflijk benieuwd naar het laatste boek, Koningin. Met het spannende einde van Gevangene ben ik wel erg nieuwsgierig hoe alles verder zal verlopen.
Band 1 hat mir schon sehr gut gefallen und dieser Band konnte da mithalten.
Es wird relativ kurz nach den Ereignissen aus Band 1 angeknüpft. Kitty muss sich wieder als Lila ausgeben und sie ist nur noch genervt von ihrer Rolle. Mit Benij würde sie am liebsten fliehen und auf Knox ist sie meiste sauer, da er nie mit allein Informationen raus rück. Dadurch hat Kitty das Gefühl eine Marionette zu sein, etwas was ihr sehr gegen den Strich geht.
Was hier wieder sehr aufgefallen ist, Kitty geht oft mit den Kopf durch die Wand, ob das wirklich immer so gut ist, ist an der Stelle schon fraglich. Bei der ein oder anderen Situation würde ich sagen nein, aber so ist Kitty. Läßt sich ungern von anderen sagen was sie zu tun hat.
Die Geschichte hat sich wieder sehr flüssig lesen lassen und konnte mich von der ersten Seite fesseln. Allein schon der Klapptext hat dazu geführt an diesen Buch zu kleben.
Die Handlung ist voller Überraschungen, eine Sache die ich schon im ersten Band vermutet habe, hat sich hier auf eine Art bestätigt, die ich auch nicht gedacht hätte. Ansonsten gab es noch genug anderes an Wendungen.
Das Ende endet natürlich in einen Cliffhanger, der den dritten band wirklich interessant gestalten wird.
Es wird relativ kurz nach den Ereignissen aus Band 1 angeknüpft. Kitty muss sich wieder als Lila ausgeben und sie ist nur noch genervt von ihrer Rolle. Mit Benij würde sie am liebsten fliehen und auf Knox ist sie meiste sauer, da er nie mit allein Informationen raus rück. Dadurch hat Kitty das Gefühl eine Marionette zu sein, etwas was ihr sehr gegen den Strich geht.
Was hier wieder sehr aufgefallen ist, Kitty geht oft mit den Kopf durch die Wand, ob das wirklich immer so gut ist, ist an der Stelle schon fraglich. Bei der ein oder anderen Situation würde ich sagen nein, aber so ist Kitty. Läßt sich ungern von anderen sagen was sie zu tun hat.
Die Geschichte hat sich wieder sehr flüssig lesen lassen und konnte mich von der ersten Seite fesseln. Allein schon der Klapptext hat dazu geführt an diesen Buch zu kleben.
Die Handlung ist voller Überraschungen, eine Sache die ich schon im ersten Band vermutet habe, hat sich hier auf eine Art bestätigt, die ich auch nicht gedacht hätte. Ansonsten gab es noch genug anderes an Wendungen.
Das Ende endet natürlich in einen Cliffhanger, der den dritten band wirklich interessant gestalten wird.
Moved the story along through the Revolution and the next book is Kitty v. Lila. The people of Elsewhere have a hard life outside the system that governs the nation: guilty until dead! Waiting for the next book 'Queen.'
I’m not really sure if I liked this book. It was way more violent than the first one and revealed some rather disturbing things about the dystopian society. It also had a lot of language the first book didn’t have. That being said, the plot line did leave me guessing and I was surprised by the twists and the revealed true nature of some of the characters.
Holy crap, I just got approved to read this on Netgalley! Thank you Harlequin!!!
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I quite enjoyed this! Sometimes the drama seemed a bit much, and I wasn't sure what to think of the main relationship in the book, but overall this was a solid sequel to the first novel. The plot actually developed and deepened in this book, enough to hold my interest and have me invested in what was going on - if not in the characters, then in the world that I had gotten to know and was developed throughout the pages.
Kitty is an interesting character - at times I wanted to shake her, which I suppose has certain positives itself - it says something when you're invested enough to want to reach through the page and shake a fictional person! She's not perfect but that's something I really like and respect in books, the courage to take a character and make them real, with their own quirks and downfalls and - yes - annoying moments.
I also appreciated the intensity of the plot - the author clearly wasn't afraid to make sacrifices for her story, and while I quite often have a problem with this sort of thing, Aimee Carter makes it work. it's also more realistic than some books that would have you believe that war and revolution have everyone walking away unharmed.
Overall a solid sequel to the first and worth reading.
Disclaimer: I received a copy of this book from the publisher in exchange for an honest review.
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I quite enjoyed this! Sometimes the drama seemed a bit much, and I wasn't sure what to think of the main relationship in the book, but overall this was a solid sequel to the first novel. The plot actually developed and deepened in this book, enough to hold my interest and have me invested in what was going on - if not in the characters, then in the world that I had gotten to know and was developed throughout the pages.
Kitty is an interesting character - at times I wanted to shake her, which I suppose has certain positives itself - it says something when you're invested enough to want to reach through the page and shake a fictional person! She's not perfect but that's something I really like and respect in books, the courage to take a character and make them real, with their own quirks and downfalls and - yes - annoying moments.
I also appreciated the intensity of the plot - the author clearly wasn't afraid to make sacrifices for her story, and while I quite often have a problem with this sort of thing, Aimee Carter makes it work. it's also more realistic than some books that would have you believe that war and revolution have everyone walking away unharmed.
Overall a solid sequel to the first and worth reading.
Disclaimer: I received a copy of this book from the publisher in exchange for an honest review.
Kitty dug her nails into her palms six times throughout the book. I kept count.