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The Rift Uprising by Amy S. Foster

3/2/2018

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This week I’ve read The Rift Uprising by Amy S. Foster. This is the first book in The Rift Uprising Trilogy about seventeen-year-old Ryn Whittaker who is a Citadel: an elite, enhanced soldier specially chosen to guard a Rift, a mysterious and dangerous portal to alternate Earths scientists cannot control or close.
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When I read the synopsis I was so intrigued and I had such high expectations. In the book the world is a version of earth set in the future, but a “tear” in the universe allows creatures and humans from other worlds to come into this version of earth. To protect this version of earth, children are implanted with devices developed by a higher species to become defenders of The Rift. Great storyline, isn’t it?!

I loved the concept of The Rift, but the book did not really live up to its full potential. I quite enjoyed it, but I felt that it could have been so much better and more interesting if it hadn't been for the Insta-love and Blood Lust thing that turned the story into focusing too much on sex. This also made it hard to really like the heroine Ryn. She came across as quite selfish, immature and all too occupied with thinking about sex.

What I did love though, was all the references in the book to movies and TV shows like Ender's Game, Transformers, and Buffy; that really added an extra flavor to the story and almost made me laugh out loud at times.

“Are those motherf-cking vampires?”
“See? This is why I was always Team Jacob.”
“Twilight? Really? That’s what you’re going to go with? The entire vampire canon and that’s what you choose?”

I also really loved the friendship in Team Beta and some of the characters; Henry, Ezra (if it hadn’t been for the way he came into Ryn’s life) and Violet. I also have a hunch that Levi be bad-boy-turned-good in the next book and that Ryn’s feelings for him will start to change.

I also have a feeling that the second book will live up to the expectations much better and take the story in the right direction. Even though the first book was not quite what I hoped for it won’t stop me from continuing reading this series.

Find out more about the books and the author here: Amy S Foster
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