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zoesnicholson 's review for:
Reboot
by Amy Tintera
When I put this down, I felt somewhat like the protagonist Wren herself: devoid of emotions. The book didn't ignite any feelings or emotions inside of me; I finished with a sense of mediocrity and plainness. I don't quite understand what this book had to offer that other YA dystopians haven't already discussed.
After Wren was shot and died, 178 minutes later she came back to life as a Reboot, a stronger, less emotional version of her past self. Now a soldier for the government, Wren's job is to prepare and train new Reboot recruits for their new lives as soldiers. And she does exactly that, until she gets a recruit named Callum, and she finds herself slowly falling for him.
"There's something human left in you, ain't there?" she asked, craning her neck to look at the number above the bar code on my wrist.Wren is a difficult protagonist to like. Being a Reboot, she is deprived of emotion, which made me struggle to care for her. There is nothing to characterize Wren besides the fact that she has an innate ability for fighting, but I wanted to know more about her than that one simple fact. Knowing so little about her made it difficult for me to connect to her.
She froze. Her eyes flew from the 178 printed on my skin to my face and she let out another shriek.
No. There was no human left in me.
At the end of the day, I just wanted something more. Something more than the purposeless action scenes. Something more than the underdeveloped romance. I wanted something to help distinguish this from other dystopians, but there was nothing in this book that hasn't already been written about in the hundreds of other YA dystopians that have been published. Yes, it was a quick and entertaining read. But that just simply isn't enough for me.