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The Loop by Ben Oliver, Ben Oliver

7 reviews

dandelionsteph's review against another edition

medium-paced

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Addiction, Body horror, Bullying, Child death, Confinement, Death, Drug use, Gore, Gun violence, Mental illness, Violence, Blood, Police brutality, Medical content, Medical trauma, Murder, and War

Moderate: Animal death, Gun violence, Suicide, Grief, Mass/school shootings, Car accident, Suicide attempt, and Death of parent

Minor: Terminal illness and Fire/Fire injury

Technically, it's

soldiers, not police officers

which

pick off any survivors of the initial apocalyptic event

, but the "marshals" which take the protagonists away are clearly terrible people, giving him mere minutes for a trial, so I'll count it as this element anyway. The "mass shootings" isn't in the context of a lone gunman or a small squad of gunmen, and is more similar to the context of war or domestic insurgency, but it's similar enough to an open-air mass shooting that I'll count it as one. The terminal illness is a

"mystery flu", rather than a real-life terminal illness or one conventionally similar to a terminal illness, but, functionally, it might as well be a terminal illness, because it's very rare and the characters cannot afford its extremely expensive cure.

The "car accident" element is a flying car that was hijacked, and the characters crash-landed it rather than have it go back to their enemies. Still, it's close enough.

butterklotz's review against another edition

adventurous tense medium-paced

• Plot- or character-driven? A mix
• Strong character development? Yes
• Diverse cast of characters? Yes

4.5

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Animal death, Death, Gun violence, Violence, and Blood

Moderate: Addiction, Torture, and Murder

gabibooksit's review against another edition

adventurous dark mysterious tense fast-paced

• Plot- or character-driven? A mix
• Strong character development? Yes
• Loveable characters? It's complicated
• Diverse cast of characters? Yes
• Flaws of characters a main focus? Yes

4.25

What a rollercoaster! It's been a minute since I gasped more than once while reading a book and I think Ben Oliver got me like four times. It's a fast, action packed dystopian that delivers on fun tropes in a new way. Luka Kane is a highly likeable protagonist and the extending cast of characters is well done. Do be warned, there is quite a bit of violence and the author does not shy away from injuring or killing characters. That being said, it is contextually appropriate and likely given the situation these kids find themselves in. The author delivers several roundhouse kick plot twists, some of which you see coming but they still knock you back a little. I thoroughly enjoyed this and will be quickly picking up the second in the trilogy.

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Violence

hilarylouise's review against another edition

adventurous dark tense fast-paced

• Plot- or character-driven? Plot
• Strong character development? It's complicated
• Loveable characters? Yes
• Diverse cast of characters? Yes
• Flaws of characters a main focus? No

5.0

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Torture and Forced institutionalization

Moderate: Suicidal thoughts, Suicide, Violence, Suicide attempt, Murder, and War

short_goblin69's review against another edition

adventurous dark emotional mysterious reflective tense fast-paced

• Plot- or character-driven? A mix
• Strong character development? It's complicated
• Loveable characters? It's complicated
• Diverse cast of characters? Yes
• Flaws of characters a main focus? No

3.75

This book was way darker than i expected. The pacing is a little slow at first but after a certain point, you hit the ground running. It gets super  fast paced, one thing after another thrown at you with no time to breathe. This usually isnt inherently a bad thing for most books. but for the amount of things that happen in this book, it wouldve been nice to get more time to breathe in my opinion. I wouldve loved for us to delve into certain characters motivations like Wren but i guess the author is saving that for the next book. We cant forget about the fact that this is a YA novel so of course the author will put in an insufferable love triangle!  But other than that is book is pretty ok. All the characters were cool and their banter was fun to read even if it was a little cringy at times. The author made me care about everyone even the smaller side characters like Mable, Kina and Blue which i must commend him on. The plot was also very interesting and the ben oliver is good at creating tense sequences.

Overall i give it a 3.5/5 i will read the next book just to see how things will play out. Id reccomend if you want a YA sci-fi that is a quick read.

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Cursing, Death, Drug use, Gore, Suicidal thoughts, Torture, Violence, Murder, War, and Injury/Injury detail

charlottesomewhere's review against another edition

medium-paced

• Plot- or character-driven? Plot
• Strong character development? It's complicated
• Loveable characters? It's complicated
• Diverse cast of characters? Yes
• Flaws of characters a main focus? Yes

The Loop is everything I love about dystopian fiction. I was drawn straight into these characters and their lives. I loved the friendships that developed and I am intrigued to see where this series goes next. 

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Body horror, Confinement, Death, Violence, Forced institutionalization, Medical content, and Murder

whatisthebooksellerthinking's review against another edition

adventurous challenging dark emotional sad tense medium-paced

• Strong character development? No
• Loveable characters? No
• Diverse cast of characters? It's complicated
• Flaws of characters a main focus? No

2.0

Terrifyingly relevant, dystopian thriller - set in the not too distant future! As a prisoner kept in 'The Loop', Luka Kane exists in a repetitive monotony. 24 hour monitoring via a camera implant and energy reaping every evening to power 'The Loop', the only hope of a pardon comes in the form of 'Delays'.  Accepting a medical test or experiment can grant you added time to your sentence. When rumours of an uprising on the outside reach Luka, and his inmates return from delays showing disturbing behaviour, he becomes convinced that something is afoot. How will he find out? How will he escape? Powerful dark thriller, raising issues of AI technology and it's implications for society. 

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Confinement, Violence, Forced institutionalization, and Police brutality

Moderate: Addiction