Monday, October 12, 2020

Rebel Seoul by Axie Oh - ADVISABLE

 

Rebel Seoul (Rebel Seoul, #1) by Axie Oh, 389 pages.  Tu Books (Lee and Low), 2017.  $20.  

Content: Language: PG-13 (68 swears); Mature Content: PG-13; Violence: PG-13.  

BUYING ADVISORY: MS, HS – ADVISABLE  

AUDIENCE APPEAL: AVERAGE  

Lee Jaewon, 18yo, lives in a world divided between Old Seoul and New Seoul.  He is gaining notoriety within his academy for his fighting skills during simulations.  When Lee is coerced into being on the team of the Director’s sons, he gains a position as a guard for a new weapon in Neo Seoul. The weapon is a girl named Tera, who has been modified with fighting mechanisms making her the most lethal God Machine on the planet.  Lee and Tera form a friendship and understanding among a world on the brink of war.  

Rebel Seoul is a Sci-Fi read that reminded me of a mix of Ender’s Game and Iron Man.  The world building is the main focus of the story, and the author does such a good job building the world that it was fun to get lost in it.  I wish there would have been more character development because I liked all the characters, including the minor characters.  The content has brutal beatings and there is fighting.  

Reviewer, C. Peterson

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