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Indestructible by Emma L. Adams Series: Indestructible,
Published by Self Publish on 2015-01-12
Reviewing eARC from Lola's Blog Tours
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Two years ago, the fiends invaded, with a devastating explosion that split the world in two. Even now, energy blasts strike without warning, destroying everything in their paths. The fiends hunt anyone unlucky enough to escape.
My name is Leah. An energy blast killed my group. It should have killed me, too. Instead, I woke up alone in the wilderness, stalked by the fiends.
My only hope is the red-cloaked strangers who call themselves the Pyros. They can do the impossible and make flames shoot from their hands. Right now, my one chance for safety -- and revenge -- is with them.
But they’re keeping secrets from me. Like those skeletons hidden under their base. And the reasons I developed a psychic link with someone who can’t stand the sight of me -- after he saved my life.
If I don’t uncover the truth about why the world ended the first time, my new safe haven might go up in smoke…
Indestructible by Emma L. Adams is the start of an exciting new dystopian series. I really enjoyed this book though I can’t really pinpoint any one reason as to why. At the beginning of the book, you are dropped into the middle of the plot. Leah has just survived an energy blast that killed the rest of her group. It should have killed her too, but it didn’t. Now she’s on the run for her life, away from the fiends. The only people she can trust are the two strangers in red-cloaks that just showed up to save her, but they have a devastating secret.
Leah is a great character! She is smart, self-reliant, and despite losing everyone and everything she’s ever cared for she keeps going. As she learns more about the people in the red-coats and what surviving the energy blast means for her, she embraces it. She doesn’t take a minute to feel sorry for herself. Instead she focuses on living her life to the fullest and avenging those that she loves. Honestly she rocks!
The red-cloaked strangers are the Pyros. They can survive energy blasts because they are like living flames. Pretty cool, huh?! They take Leah in and begin training her in how she can harness her power and fight the fiends. But they hold secrets, secrets that aren’t willing to share which puts Leah on edge. I can say that I had a hard time with who to trust in the book as did Leah.
The fiends are like mindless monsters that came through the divide, a crack in the Earth’s surface. They kill without thought and they particularly like Pyros. At first I thought these creatures were zombie-like, but they are more like demons or gargoyles. Hard rough skin, talons, horns, the works! They are actually pretty scary and the author does a good job of conveying the threat through Leah as narrator. You can feel her terror.
I don’t want to give too much of this story away as it is a relatively short book. The author does a fantastic job with Leah as narrator. I was fully immersed in the story. Albeit a little confused at the onset….but then again so was Leah 😉 As the reader, you feel what Leah feels as she experiences it: her terror, her strength, her fight. It’s fantastic! So why 4 instead of 5?
While the book was fast-paced and an exciting read, I was lost at the onset, dropped into the middle of the plot with little explanation. There wasn’t a lot of world-building or explanation til towards the end of the book and then it felt like an info-dump. I would have liked to see more world-building throughout the book and some explanation about the fiends.
Overall I really enjoyed the book though and have every intention of continuing the series! That ending….be warned it’s a cliff hanger. I need the next one ASAP! If you enjoy young adult dystopia, than I highly recommend you check out this book!
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About Emma L. Adams
Emma spent her childhood creating imaginary worlds to compensate for a disappointingly average reality, so it was probably inevitable that she ended up writing speculative fiction. She was born in Birmingham, UK, which she fled at the first opportunity to study English Literature at Lancaster University. In her three years at Lancaster, she hiked up mountains, skydived in Australia, and endured a traumatic episode involving a swarm of bees in the Costa Rican jungle. She also entertained her creative writing group and baffled her tutors by submitting strange fantasy tales featuring dragons and supernatural monsters to workshops. These included her first publication, a rather bleak dystopian piece, and a disturbing story about a homicidal duck (which she hopes will never see the light of day).
Now a reluctant graduate, Emma refuses to settle down and be normal. When not embarking on wild excursions and writing fantasy novels, she edits and proofreads novels for various publishing houses and reads an improbable number of books. Emma is currently working on the Alliance series, a multiple-universe adult fantasy featuring magic, monsters, cool gadgets and sarcasm. Her upper-YA urban fantasy Darkworld series is published by Curiosity Quills Press.
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