I received a free copy of this book from the site netgalley.com and am giving feedback on what I thought .
https://s2.netgalley.com/What this book is about :Lib wakes up in a harsh terrain surrounded by rocks sand and a hot sun burning over head she doesn't remember anything her clothes are torn , dirty and she's terribly thirsty .Memories float in and out as she tries to remember but nothing solid comes along . Lib finds and saves a girl named Skye who also out in the rugged terrain with her, as thanks Skye takes Lib back to the tunnels where others wait the others are part of a Clan where a boy named Wolf is their leader .Lib soon learns while they might look alike Lib and Skye are considered glitches and the clan members are called rogues .Glitches are only there to be useful and serve a purpose find water do their share and scavenge for parts that can be made into weapons .Rogues are clan that are family, automatically accepted welcomed and treated as equals it has always been this way .The clan has laws and Lib soon learns if she wants to be apart of the clan she must follow those laws no questions asked .Lib befriends Raj who is also a glitch ,Raj and Skye become her constant companions there are two other glitches but they ignore Lib completely .
No one trusts glitches because they used to be apart of this city a community called the Norm and were thrown out to survive on their own because they glitched and made mistakes in their function's .They are constantly watched and guarded and distrusted by the Rouges of the clan they believe a glitch will always be a glitch and will want to return to the Norm never fully committing to the clan .Raj is certain they will never truly belong . Raj comes up with a plan to hack into the Norm , to reset and take down the AI the thing that runs the norm and keeps the outside where the rogues and Lib lives starving and thirsty and the land barren the AI send drones that patrol the skies and kill anything they see .Raj wants to return to the norm and to his function and his family. Just as Lib is starting to feel like she belongs a scavenger mission goes bad two in fact and the clan blames Lib because ever since she arrived bad luck has come to the clan .Lib is forced to decide whether she should stay and prove she's not bad luck and is indeed useful or follow Raj's plan to shut down the AI so that they are welcome again in the Norm .
What I liked :I really found myself rooting for each character and their own personal successes even the characters that I didn't like I found myself agreeing with things they would say or do because it was relatable to what the character was about. I also liked the smooth flow of the book as well there were parts where it would lull and then there were parts that had action at just the right places .I enjoyed the stark contrast of technology so advanced to the basic scavenging of items to survive most books of this theme would lean more one way than the other I found that this book had the perfect balance of both . I was not disappointed by the length of this book either it seemed a little short but then I realized that if it tried to go on longer it would become a fluff read and I hate those .(A fluff read to me is where and author puts extra stuff in a book to make it more substantial or go on longer the material added in really has no place in the book.)
What I didn't like : I found myself aggravated by the main character Lib not knowing anything at all by not having any memories I understood later on why she didn't know anything at all but I had to use some patience to get to that part maybe because I wanted her to figure out what was going on so I would know what was going on .Main characters have a story and I found that her story was not on the page black and white so you could start to connect to her right away . I like to understand and connect to the characters I read right away because it makes the story more relatable to me .
The overall : I enjoyed this book besides the few moments of frustration but not because the story wasn't good but because I'm a little picky sometimes . I would recommend this book to someone who is into the sci-fi tech dystopian genre it picks up on all those and there are some primitive almost cultural differences between the different groups in this book that will make you think. A smooth clean read over all some typos but hey I'm sure there are plenty in my review lol .Thanks for reading !
