Reboot

This isn't your ordinary zombie book. Reboot introduces us to a world where some people, people whose bodies can adapt to the mutation given by an epidemic disease, rise from the dead and become stronger, faster, and less prone to human emotion. A government agency called HARC uses these living dead called the reboots to fight as soldiers and perform brutal tasks with no questions asked.

Wren rebooted after 178 minutes, making her the deadliest and most highly feared Reboot. The humans that patrol the HARC base are terrified of her and the lower reboots know to stay away. The only people who treated her like a person were Leb, one of the few humans at HARC who treated reboots with respect, and Ever, her ‘under sixty' roommate and the closest Wren had to a friend. Wren was okay with the reputation of being a monster who enjoyed killing and found some truth in it until Callum came along. Callum is a 22 and one of the weakest reboots in the base. Wren usually chooses to train the reboot with the highest number, but something about Callum and his unabashed humane self intrigues her and chooses him to be her trainee, surprising the other reboots, the humans, and Wren herself.

Being Callum's trainer changes Wren and she starts to feel the human emotions she thought she would never feel again. She starts to break the rules she has followed for the past five years, and allows herself to show compassion towards others. These emotions make Wren start to wonder when she gets called to do private missions and Ever and the other under sixties start to act strange and less sane. When Callum refuses to kill a human during one of their field missions, the president of HARC orders her to get rid of him but she silently refuses to kill Callum and enlists Leb to help her and Callum escape to a place where reboots get to live free from HARC's influence.

Amy Tintera's writing as Wren echoed the voice of a true reboot: strong, assured, confident, and calculating. But it also had just the right amount of bits of emotion that sprawled across the pages, showing us the humane side of Wren that was bursting at the seams.Wren was convinced that she was the heartless and bloodthirst creature that everyone thought her to be and it was true during the first parts of the book but as the story gradually progresses, you'll see Wren finally coming into terms with why she enjoyed killing and why she kept her emotions bottled up. Callum was incredibly cute and very very human. It was hard to believe that he was a reboot. With that playful smile of his and that curious glint in his eyes, he was just what Wren needed in her life. Callum was an overactive ball of sunshine; always looking at the bright side of things and never backing down whenever Wren dismissed his playful advances.

Reboot was an incredible fast-paced and adrenaline filled book with kickass and endearing characters and unbelievable twists that will keep you on the edge of your seat. The action scenes were vividly set out for the reader and the romance was cute and sweet. Reboot lived up to the expectations of it's cleverly unique plot that plays with what being human truly means. It perfectly laid out the framework for a series that i'm sure will be more than amazing, showing us glimpses of Wren's tragic past that i'm sure will slowly be uncovered in the succeeding books, and leaving us with questions that are dying to be answered. My only complaint about the book is that it unnecessarily rushed through some major events during the last part of the book. Filled with just the right amount of humor and innocent romance that balances out the gore and harsh realities, Reboot is one of the best young adult debut novels of the year.


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3.5 stars (I am just going to type this as I wait for the show I am watching to completely load)
this book was good but you know me, I can't not bash YA books. So brace yourselves.
What I liked most about this book is that 17 year-olds aren't expected to save the world. The story line was fantastic but I expected more of this book considering how well it started.

It started with Wren being extremely cold, which is to be expected. It was actually good. Wren was this passive badass cold human being (Show almost done loading, shit) and the writing was really being supportive on that point. I have a tiny bit of criticism. I get it how the writing style should be cold but I think it failed at first to convey that (show done loading, let me just finish this sentence) because the author wanted it to be mysterious but only got as a result the style being a tiny bit cheesy. (Okay I will watch an episode and come back).
Show's over
let me just gather my thoughts again... where was I? oh yes!
The writing style at the beginning didn't bug me a lot. I liked how when 22 came along she started going through a gradual slow change, and I thought “Amy, good girl! YOU ARE DOING IT RIGHT!!! KEEP GOING KEEP GOING!!” So I thought this is going to be one of the few YA I will actually like (Don't get me wrong, I liked it) but then BOOM she started “OMG I want him to kiss me”, the gradual change stopped, so there wasn't any clear line to demonstrate when she started liking him (Same with Juliette and Warner in the Shatter me series) and she started getting all wet and becoming a typical typical teenager that I rolled my eyes, A LOT. And I really don't get YA authors' fear of sex. I mean everyone knows about it, and everyone goes around and does it. I would actually prefer that it is described the way it is because teenagers read YA and I think they would like to know the wisest way to not fall pregnant at 16 and get on MTV, you get what I mean? I am not saying I want sex everywhere, I just think it would be better for teenagers to read about it in books in a clear responsible way so they wouldn't get into problems.

But all in all, I liked it. It was fast-paced and I managed to storm through it.
I am not sure I want to read book two because of its title :P I think we had a lot of rebels in YA books even though this series requires it but it will make me hate the book because of the point I mentioned at first which was the thing that I loved the most about the book (Check above ^^^^^ )

That's all for now :D