He isn’t fawning over Wren (well, not completely). And if I’m being totally honest, he was more interesting as a protagonist. Callum - the more human of the two of them - insists that they need to help both sides. The real question the two of them face is, “What do we do when we know that reboots and humans are about to go to war against each other again?” The first time the war devastated the world. If you read the back of the book, it says as much. Okay, so this isn’t really a spoiler either. All they have are the hope that their escape to the Reboot reservation will give them the freedom they seek. They don’t have the weapons they need to fight back. They don’t have the knowledge of what’s going on in the world. Rebel, by Amy Tintera, is about how Wren and Callum are forced into a series of situations they are grossly ill-equipped for. I’ve read some bad YA fiction (really bad, see this review if you need proof), and this series was nowhere near that! So sorry, haters, but Reboot and Rebel do not belong on the DNF list.

But these are things I’ve come to expect from the genre, particularly when the protagonist is female. Yes, some of the tropes were predictable (again, as YA often is). Yes, there is a lot of kissing and handholding (as I often find there are in such YA books). Not because it’s bad, but because some people are just overly critical. Let me kick things off by saying that this series has a bad rep. Rebel struck a perfect balance between action and pacing. The conclusion was just epic enough in Rebel to keep me turning the pages, but not so much that I was overwhelmed by everything that happened. I have to say it’s been a while since I’ve found a series of books I read as quickly as Amy Tintera’s Reboot series.

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