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With comparisons to Suzanne Collins' The Hunger Games and Pierce Brown's Red Rising, the Rift Uprising trilogy is an exciting, action-packed series focused on a powerful young woman leading an improbable army against a dangerous enemy. The Rift Coda brings this fast-paced adventure to a stunning, explosive conclusion!
Ryn Whittaker started an uprising. Now she has to end it.
Not long ago, Ryn knew what her future would be--as a Citadel, a genetically enhanced super-soldier, it was her job to protect her version of Earth among an infinite number of other versions in the vast Multiverse at any cost. But when Ezra Massad arrived on Ryn's Earth, her life changed in an instant, and he pushed her to start asking why she was turned into a Citadel in the first place.
What began as merely an investigation into her origins ended up hurling Ryn, Ezra, and Ryn's teammate Levi through the Multiverse and headlong into a conspiracy so vast and complex that Ryn can no longer merely be a soldier . . . she must now be a general. And in becoming a true leader, she must forge alliances with unpredictable species, make impossible decisions, and face deep sacrifices. She must lead not thousands, but hundreds of thousands of troops under her command and in doing so, leave any trace of her childhood behind.
Ryn always knew that she was created to fight. But now she must step forward and lead.
Reviews (3)
Publisher's Weekly Review
The tedious final book of the Rift Uprising trilogy (after The Rift Frequency) stars young supersoldiers Levi, Ezra, and Ryn, who are recruiting allies to defeat the secretive group, the Roones, who created them. The teens begin their mission by forming a tenuous alliance with an angelic species called the Faida, who engage with them in a council of equals despite their reluctance to burden children with planning an insurrection. There follows a tediously realistic amount of studying, talking, strategizing, and holding meetings, while the inevitable love triangle churns among the three main characters. If not for the sheer amount of detailed bureaucracy, this might make a decent young adult series, but the relative immaturity of the characters and predictable plot and conflict make this a difficult sell for adult readers. Agent: Yfat Reiss Gendell, Foundry Literary + Media. (Oct.) © Copyright PWxyz, LLC. All rights reserved.
New York Review of Books Review
THE MAKING OF HOME: The 500-Year Story of How Our Houses Became Our Homes, by Judith Flanders. (Thomas Dunne/St. Martin's, $16.99.) To understand the fine nuances between a "house" and a "home," distinct yet deeply entwined terms, Flanders looks across five centuries of households in Europe and America, an intimate investigation that touches on domesticity, economic matters, family life and privacy. THE RELIC MASTER, by Christopher Buckley. (Simon & Schuster, $16.) It's 1517 in northern Europe, and a relic hunter, Dismas, is working for two rival collectors. When one asks for Christ's burial shroud, Dismas and his German artist sidekick attempt to create a forgery. Once they're discovered, they end up in a dungeon, squarely in the center of a plot to recover the actual shroud - a caper that takes them across the Continent. NABOKOV IN AMERICA: On the Road to "Lolita," by Robert Roper. (Bloomsbury, $20.) Roper chronicles the two decades that Nabokov lived in the United States (the writer had long dreamed of "vulgar, far-flung America") and its powerful ramifications for Nabokov's work. Our reviewer, Daphne Merkin, called the book "a scholarly romp that should engage admirers of Nabokov as well as fans of first-rate literary sleuthing." GOOD ON PAPER, by Rachel Cantor. (Melville House, $14.99.) When Shira, a struggling academic, is offered what appears to be a plum translation project, she sees a chance to kick-start her career. But she's not the only one in her family eyeing a new beginning in this novel of second chances: Shira's gay friend and roommate, Ahmad, hopes to take her daughter, long neglected in favor of her mother's academic work, away from the city to Connecticut. COWARDICE: A Brief History, by Chris Walsh. (Princeton University, $21.95.) For all the insult's might, and how frequently it is leveled in a number of circumstances, there is hardly a consensus about what constitutes a coward. Walsh offers a cultural biography of the term, researching attitudes toward it throughout American history, as well as an accounting of the damage the label has wrought. CONFESSION OF THE LIONESS, by Mia Couto. Translated by David Brookshaw. (Picador, $16.) Couto, a Mozambican writer, draws on a real-life episode from 2008, when lions killed 26 people in northern Mozambique, as the basis for his novel. The story is told by a hunter brought to quell the lions and by a village girl, who both begin to suspect that the animals are spirits conjured by ancient witchcraft. BRIEF CANDLE IN THE DARK: My Life in Science, by Richard Dawkins. (Ecco/HarperCollins, $15.99.) The scientist's memoir, a sequel to "An Appetite for Wonder," offers a constellation of anecdotes, ranging from his publishing history to his academic ascent, with digressions on atheism, culture and biology. Dawkins joyfully nods to his predecessors and the people who influenced him. ?
Library Journal Review
Ryn Whittaker was raised to be a Citadel, a genetically enhanced secret soldier tasked with ensuring that the rifts that connect her Earth to the other versions through the Multiverse do not cause trouble for her world. When she meets Ezra Massad, a refugee from another Earth, Ryn begins to question why she was made into a Citadel. These questions lead Ryn, Ezra, and her teammate Levi into the Multiverse, where they learn that a conspiracy by altered Roones, the aliens who created the Citadels on Ryn's Earth and others, threatens everything and everyone Ryn cares about. Gathering allies will be daunting, but Ryn, made to be a soldier, now finds herself transforming into a leader. VERDICT With myriad characters and worlds, Foster's military sf series finale (after The Rift Frequency) is a superpowered, coming-of-age story that will grab both adult and YA readers.-Kristi Chadwick, Massachusetts Lib. Syst., Northampton © Copyright 2018. Library Journals LLC, a wholly owned subsidiary of Media Source, Inc. No redistribution permitted.