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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).
Review copy provided by Amazon Vine