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startingtospark's review
5.0
From picking up The Catalyst at the beginning of 2015, I was so excited to pick up this sequel. Helena Coggan has such a way with words and is a brilliant storyteller who keeps me on the edge of my seat, and The Reaction is certainly no exception. The Reaction is written from two perspectives, Rose and her adoptive father David. At the end of The Catalyst the cliffhanger kind of loomed around David and whether he is who he says he is, and throughout this book we discover David's past and a lot of revelations that change both his and Rose's lives forever. I was right at the end of The Catalyst to be aware of David, because the plot is mainly about him and his past and the decisions he made. Secrets are spilled, and Rose is desperately trying to get her life together after David's arrest and being rejected by The Department because she's "different."
Rose develops hugely as a character from the first book, and she has to because she's on her own. However, I am more fascinated with the characters David and Loren in this book as they're very complex and I feel that we're never going to really understand them fully and I'm perfectly okay with that. I like the mystery in characters and Helena Coggan has hit the nail on the head with these two. There are some elements of romance in this story but its just the right amount that doesn't get in the way of the plot, and isn't awfully cliche so yay!
Again, Coggan has hit us with another bomb of a cliffhanger and I'm excited and annoyed that I have another wait before I can find out what happens with David and Rose. The war between magicals and non-magicals is looming and the suspense is absolutely killing me, and I am blown away by how amazing Helena Coggan's writing is and this story keeps getting better and better. Roll on book number three!
Rose develops hugely as a character from the first book, and she has to because she's on her own. However, I am more fascinated with the characters David and Loren in this book as they're very complex and I feel that we're never going to really understand them fully and I'm perfectly okay with that. I like the mystery in characters and Helena Coggan has hit the nail on the head with these two. There are some elements of romance in this story but its just the right amount that doesn't get in the way of the plot, and isn't awfully cliche so yay!
Again, Coggan has hit us with another bomb of a cliffhanger and I'm excited and annoyed that I have another wait before I can find out what happens with David and Rose. The war between magicals and non-magicals is looming and the suspense is absolutely killing me, and I am blown away by how amazing Helena Coggan's writing is and this story keeps getting better and better. Roll on book number three!
lightlysprkling's review
2.0
The idea for this series is a great one, and the characters are really interesting. I found the plotting a bit disjointed and in some parts I couldn't follow it. Quite dark in tone, reminded me of The Laundry series in that respect.
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