Fractured by Teri Terry
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quippeThe Blurb On The Back:
”With what I did yesterday, I should be dead: zapped by the chip they put in my brain when I was Slated.”
Kyla shouldn’t remember anything from before she was Slated, but dark secrets of her past will not stay buried. Caught in a tug of war between Lorder oppression and the fight for freedom, her past and present race towards a collision she may not survive. While her desperate search for Ben continues, who can she trust in this world of secrets and lies?
A charismatic but dangerous figure from her past forces Kyla to choose her own path in this tense and gripping sequel to the highly praised SLATED.
It’s immediately after SLATED. Lecherous builder Wayne is unconscious – maybe dead – after Kyla fought off his attack. Kyla’s Levo no longer works and she’s having strange dreams – fragments of memories from her pre-Slated life – which is dangerous given that Nico has tracked her down and wants her to return to Free UK.
As Kyla works to make sense of who she was, who she is and who she wants to be, she finds herself caught in a web of mistrust and fear where everyone is a potential enemy …
The second in Teri Terry’s YA dystopian trilogy is another interesting character study that explores the shades of grey separating those who oppose a dystopian regime from those who uphold it. The book’s main strength lies in Kyla’s attempts to work out what happened to her before she was Slated and how that affects the person she is and wants to become. This does come at the expense of the plot, but I welcomed the depth and thought that it brought to a genre that trends towards action. It’s not a perfect book – some of the conversations veer close to “as you know” territory and the dialogue is quite formal at times with few characters ever using contractions – but it is still well worth a read and I look forward to the conclusion.
I completely believed in Kyla’s attempts to come to terms with her identity as she begins to regain her pre-Slated memories and Terry neatly ties this in with the explanation for how she’s broken her Slated status. I enjoyed the scenes between her and Nico with Kyla being desperate to please him even as she begins to question what he stands for but I would have liked more between her and Katran (another figure from her past). I also believed in her growing mistrust of her parents, sister and friends as she tries to work out just who’s on her side and the set-up for what’s happened to Ben promises much in the final book.
I did find some of the dialogue a little stilted due to the lack of contractions and some of the exchanges are close to ‘as you know’ territory. I was also disappointed by the lack of pay-off to the Wayne storyline, despite the obvious threat he represented. That said, I did enjoy this and will be checking out the finale.
The Verdict:
The second in Teri Terry’s YA dystopian trilogy is another interesting character study that explores the shades of grey separating those who oppose a dystopian regime from those who uphold it. The book’s main strength lies in Kyla’s attempts to work out what happened to her before she was Slated and how that affects the person she is and wants to become. This does come at the expense of the plot, but I welcomed the depth and thought that it brought to a genre that trends towards action. It’s not a perfect book – some of the conversations veer close to “as you know” territory and the dialogue is quite formal at times with few characters ever using contractions – but it is still well worth a read and I look forward to the conclusion.
Kyla shouldn’t remember anything from before she was Slated, but dark secrets of her past will not stay buried. Caught in a tug of war between Lorder oppression and the fight for freedom, her past and present race towards a collision she may not survive. While her desperate search for Ben continues, who can she trust in this world of secrets and lies?
A charismatic but dangerous figure from her past forces Kyla to choose her own path in this tense and gripping sequel to the highly praised SLATED.
It’s immediately after SLATED. Lecherous builder Wayne is unconscious – maybe dead – after Kyla fought off his attack. Kyla’s Levo no longer works and she’s having strange dreams – fragments of memories from her pre-Slated life – which is dangerous given that Nico has tracked her down and wants her to return to Free UK.
As Kyla works to make sense of who she was, who she is and who she wants to be, she finds herself caught in a web of mistrust and fear where everyone is a potential enemy …
The second in Teri Terry’s YA dystopian trilogy is another interesting character study that explores the shades of grey separating those who oppose a dystopian regime from those who uphold it. The book’s main strength lies in Kyla’s attempts to work out what happened to her before she was Slated and how that affects the person she is and wants to become. This does come at the expense of the plot, but I welcomed the depth and thought that it brought to a genre that trends towards action. It’s not a perfect book – some of the conversations veer close to “as you know” territory and the dialogue is quite formal at times with few characters ever using contractions – but it is still well worth a read and I look forward to the conclusion.
I completely believed in Kyla’s attempts to come to terms with her identity as she begins to regain her pre-Slated memories and Terry neatly ties this in with the explanation for how she’s broken her Slated status. I enjoyed the scenes between her and Nico with Kyla being desperate to please him even as she begins to question what he stands for but I would have liked more between her and Katran (another figure from her past). I also believed in her growing mistrust of her parents, sister and friends as she tries to work out just who’s on her side and the set-up for what’s happened to Ben promises much in the final book.
I did find some of the dialogue a little stilted due to the lack of contractions and some of the exchanges are close to ‘as you know’ territory. I was also disappointed by the lack of pay-off to the Wayne storyline, despite the obvious threat he represented. That said, I did enjoy this and will be checking out the finale.
The Verdict:
The second in Teri Terry’s YA dystopian trilogy is another interesting character study that explores the shades of grey separating those who oppose a dystopian regime from those who uphold it. The book’s main strength lies in Kyla’s attempts to work out what happened to her before she was Slated and how that affects the person she is and wants to become. This does come at the expense of the plot, but I welcomed the depth and thought that it brought to a genre that trends towards action. It’s not a perfect book – some of the conversations veer close to “as you know” territory and the dialogue is quite formal at times with few characters ever using contractions – but it is still well worth a read and I look forward to the conclusion.
