But there’s something about Callum’s charming smile and twinkling eyes that at first confuses Wren, and then attracts her.
(Wren usually trains the higher numbers, who are better Reboots all around).
When a new Reboot joins the group, a teen boy named Callum who is only a twenty-two, Wren becomes his trainer (to help him learn how to use his newly acquired Reboot strength and adjust to life at HARC), much to her chagrin. Human guards keep the Reboots in check, and although Wren feels as if HARC is her home, it’s clear that it’s more of a prison than anything else. HARC is the place where Reboots go after they wake up, and they are put to work, policing the surrounding area, capturing criminals and collecting the sick to be taken to the hospital. The author jumps right into the middle of the action without any explanation, and it takes a chapter or two to start forming a picture of what’s happening. Wren has barely any human left in her, and she’s one of the fastest and strongest Reboots at HARC, the Human Advancement and Repopulation Corporation, the facility where she lives and works. Wren is a 178, which means she was dead for one hundred and seventy-eight minutes before she woke up. The world of Reboot is harsh, and Tintera doesn’t shy away from dangerous situations.ĭue to a deadly virus called KDH, humans who die are sometimes rebooted, and the longer they are dead before they reboot, the less humanity they have left.
The character of Wren, a teen who has died and then “rebooted”-come back to life-was so well done, and I enjoyed seeing her progress from a girl that shows no emotion to one that will put herself in danger in order to save her friends. So when I read the blurb for Reboot, I knew I wanted to read the book. It’s got to be hard, since one of a writer’s goals is (or should be) to evoke emotion in the reader. I always like to see how writers handle characters that show little or no emotion. In a word: A fascinating spin on “rising from the dead,” suspenseful, characters you will love and pitch perfect dialog.
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