4.5 stars
Outlier: Rebellion is a mix of dystopian, sci-fi, and fantasy. A lot of the story elements reminded me of The Hunger Games, including a well-developed world, backstory, and cast of characters.
The author has a wonderful sense of the poetic which often showed up in the unusual but fitting descriptions. They were unusual enough to catch your eye (or ear) but not enough to jar you out of the story.
Outlier is written in third person present tense with a number of point-of-view characters. This choice can be difficult to write. The first several chapters stumbled over verb choices and kept pulling me out of the story. Later though, the writing smoothed out, allowing me to focus on (and enjoy) the story. Stylistically, the writing was also not what I was used to. The style only took a few pages to get used to though.
I look forward to seeing the rest of this series.
Highly recommended
I leave you with a few passages that highlight the author's style:
He ignores the wound on his cheek, letting it run in little red tears to his chin as he talks.
"Saving a life isn't just pulling a friend from the fire," he explains, the daredevil playing in his wet, excited eyes. "It's thereafter keeping him from the fire. Saving a life means saving it over and over."
"This isn't a castle ... This is a metal fortress. This is a bunker in the sky, a prison for the wealthy to keep themselves fed without paying mind to who feeds them. It's a dream wrapped in a big silver box stapled to the sky with promises and kisses from the future."
It is only then, squeezed in this dim corner with nothing but his flesh and his breath and two cold knees against his chest that he lets himself sigh, and sigh, and heave until the tears appear in his eyes, until the world blurs and he chokes on empty air, gasping and choking and coughing the tears off his face, off his lips, a sobbing little child.
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