lyndiane's review
4.0
I waited a long time to get my hands on a copy of this book. The story is complex and loaded with suspense and intrigue, as well as more than a few nasty twists. A very satisfying read, so why only 4 stars? I found the grammar somewhat off in a few places e.g. "Jake was sat on the bed" should have read "Jake was sitting on the bed".
michalice's review
5.0
I want to say that I am trying to make this review as spoiler free as possible, but it may contain an unintentional spoiler, so read at your own risk. I also want to point out that it is very vague, and more my opinion about the book as a whole, rather than elaborating on certain parts in the plot itself.
Imagine you have the ability to shift, to change decisions you have made to have a better outcome. Now just think of what you could do if you could use this to influence others to change their own choices, to take back every decision they had made. But what would the consequences of this be? Scott finds out what these consequences are pretty quickly when he finds himself in a whole new home. His friends and family are different, they are gone, or not as he knows them, even his girlfriend, Aubrey, has no idea of the relationship they had, yet Scott remembers every second of it, and now all he wants is to fix things.
Forcing someone to change their decisions was always going to be a complicated move, not really knowing who or what they saved, or stopped, or made better, judging their present actions for their mistake and going on that basis as a reason to unmake their every move. All the good they have done wiped out in an instant, the little changes they made to make something better, also gone. Because of this undoing, Scott finds himself in a war torn England, everything he knew is gone, there are bomb sites in place of buildings such as Big Ben and the Houses of Parliament, rubble sites instead of homes. There is nothing but war, and hatred, and Scott not only hates every minute of it, but he also hates the person he has become. But trying to fit into the Scott of that world is hard, especially knowing that this never happened in his own world.
Delete has got to be one of the most epic finales I have read in a long time. Going into the final book in this series I had no idea how it would all end, or if things would even get back to the way they were. Scott is lost and almost powerless, his desperation to get back home evident in his actions, his shock at the events that transpire easy to see in his emotions, and while it may seem like a lot is going on, all of it somehow blends perfectly together, what we already know, what we are seeing, and all of the information that we get off Scott.
Delete is non-stop action, with the war, the shifting, the new friends and surroundings, each page only brings with it more things that keep you turning the pages. You need to know what happens when they meet an enemy, what happens when they go into enemy territory, and most importantly, will Scott ever find his way home again. I devoured the pages, I really could not read them fast enough.
Did Delete end the way I expected, no it didn't, and the ending was something that I didn't expect, it was one that left me feeling warm and happy inside. It's not the conclusive ending I was looking for, but it leaves room for hope, for possibility, and for you to want to believe in the happy ever after.
Final Verdict
Delete was more than I ever expected and I could not read the pages fast enough. You HAVE to read this series.
Imagine you have the ability to shift, to change decisions you have made to have a better outcome. Now just think of what you could do if you could use this to influence others to change their own choices, to take back every decision they had made. But what would the consequences of this be? Scott finds out what these consequences are pretty quickly when he finds himself in a whole new home. His friends and family are different, they are gone, or not as he knows them, even his girlfriend, Aubrey, has no idea of the relationship they had, yet Scott remembers every second of it, and now all he wants is to fix things.
Forcing someone to change their decisions was always going to be a complicated move, not really knowing who or what they saved, or stopped, or made better, judging their present actions for their mistake and going on that basis as a reason to unmake their every move. All the good they have done wiped out in an instant, the little changes they made to make something better, also gone. Because of this undoing, Scott finds himself in a war torn England, everything he knew is gone, there are bomb sites in place of buildings such as Big Ben and the Houses of Parliament, rubble sites instead of homes. There is nothing but war, and hatred, and Scott not only hates every minute of it, but he also hates the person he has become. But trying to fit into the Scott of that world is hard, especially knowing that this never happened in his own world.
Delete has got to be one of the most epic finales I have read in a long time. Going into the final book in this series I had no idea how it would all end, or if things would even get back to the way they were. Scott is lost and almost powerless, his desperation to get back home evident in his actions, his shock at the events that transpire easy to see in his emotions, and while it may seem like a lot is going on, all of it somehow blends perfectly together, what we already know, what we are seeing, and all of the information that we get off Scott.
Delete is non-stop action, with the war, the shifting, the new friends and surroundings, each page only brings with it more things that keep you turning the pages. You need to know what happens when they meet an enemy, what happens when they go into enemy territory, and most importantly, will Scott ever find his way home again. I devoured the pages, I really could not read them fast enough.
Did Delete end the way I expected, no it didn't, and the ending was something that I didn't expect, it was one that left me feeling warm and happy inside. It's not the conclusive ending I was looking for, but it leaves room for hope, for possibility, and for you to want to believe in the happy ever after.
Final Verdict
Delete was more than I ever expected and I could not read the pages fast enough. You HAVE to read this series.
leah_reads's review
4.0
4.5*
*Received in exchange for an honest review*
*Thank you Strange Chemistry*
What am I going to do now that I've finished Kim Curran's latest works? Seriously! I finished Delete, the final instalment in Kim's Shifter series and just sat there. I love Kim's work and I was so, so sad to see the end of this trilogy! Delete is by far my absolute favourite book of the series. It's so powerful, emotional, enticing, captivating... I could go on and on. I loved it. The end of Control left us all on the edge of our seats with such a powerful cliffhanger so as soon as I saw Delete on NetGalley I grabbed it straight away. I had to know what was going to happen to Scott, Aubrey and just everyone! What was the result of that shift?
Scott's character just exploded off the page in this book. He's developed so much since Shift, in personality, in himself. Curran adds in some brilliant twists and turns to Scott's character and his and Aubrey's relationship in this final instalment. Nothing is the same, everything has changed since the end of Control and I really couldn't put it down. The entire trilogy has been action packed but this one was even better. There was so much military action and war; I found myself at the edge of my seat for the entire book. I was so anxious for my favourite characters. There are some things that shifting can never fix. Delete leaves so many questions open until the end of the novel and this just made it all the more enticing. This is by far Curran's best book to date.
I feel like this review is so rambly but I'm finding it difficult to put into words how I feel about this book. Delete was such a perfect conclusion to the end of what has been an action-packed, exciting trilogy. I started these books with apprehension because they explored topics that I'd never enjoyed before. These books proved me wrong; they are some of my favourite trilogies and I still love that Kim has written from a male perspective. I'm sad to wave goodbye to Scott Tyler but so excited to see what Kim will produce next!
*Received in exchange for an honest review*
*Thank you Strange Chemistry*
What am I going to do now that I've finished Kim Curran's latest works? Seriously! I finished Delete, the final instalment in Kim's Shifter series and just sat there. I love Kim's work and I was so, so sad to see the end of this trilogy! Delete is by far my absolute favourite book of the series. It's so powerful, emotional, enticing, captivating... I could go on and on. I loved it. The end of Control left us all on the edge of our seats with such a powerful cliffhanger so as soon as I saw Delete on NetGalley I grabbed it straight away. I had to know what was going to happen to Scott, Aubrey and just everyone! What was the result of that shift?
Scott's character just exploded off the page in this book. He's developed so much since Shift, in personality, in himself. Curran adds in some brilliant twists and turns to Scott's character and his and Aubrey's relationship in this final instalment. Nothing is the same, everything has changed since the end of Control and I really couldn't put it down. The entire trilogy has been action packed but this one was even better. There was so much military action and war; I found myself at the edge of my seat for the entire book. I was so anxious for my favourite characters. There are some things that shifting can never fix. Delete leaves so many questions open until the end of the novel and this just made it all the more enticing. This is by far Curran's best book to date.
I feel like this review is so rambly but I'm finding it difficult to put into words how I feel about this book. Delete was such a perfect conclusion to the end of what has been an action-packed, exciting trilogy. I started these books with apprehension because they explored topics that I'd never enjoyed before. These books proved me wrong; they are some of my favourite trilogies and I still love that Kim has written from a male perspective. I'm sad to wave goodbye to Scott Tyler but so excited to see what Kim will produce next!
tsana's review
4.0
Delete by Kim Curran is the final volume in her Shifter trilogy. I have previously reviewed the first two books, Shift and Control, and have also interviewed the author in the past. Delete was one of the books orphaned when Strange Chemistry went under and I am very glad to see it and the series being given new life now. Before I get into this review, I need to warn you, this entire review from the blurb onwards contains spoilers for the end of Control. Really big spoilers.
At the end of Control, Scott made a massive shift to undo the events caused by Frankie, the main "bad guy" of that book. Well, actually, Scott forces her to undo her choices, so that he can save his girlfriend. Delete opens just as that shift has been made and Scott finds himself in a worse reality, one where world war three (although they don't call it that) is ravaging the UK. All shifter children are recruited to the army to fight, Scott is in charge of the whole fighting shifter department, and Project Ganymede, the programme cutting up kids' brains which Scott stopped in the previous reality, is in full swing on a greater scale. Turns out Frankie's manipulations of world political events, while self-serving, were at least holding war at bay.
It's immediately clear to Scott that the reality he finds himself in now is pretty crappy, but he resists shifting back immediately because he doesn't want Aubrey to be dead. Instead, with slight confusion since he doesn't have any memories of the war world, Scott tries to slip into the role he finds himself in until he can work out what's going on. It was established in the earlier books that Scott is special for being able to remember other realities for more than a few minutes. In the past, he eventually slots the new reality memories into his mind but this time the shift is so big (or something) that he spends the entire book not fully remembering everything. And also not undoing it until the very end.
However, new reality Scott does leak through, providing us with some character contrast. Old Scott didn't grow up on rations or during a war, while new Scott did. Old Scott never had to learn to make human sacrifices for the greater good while army-trained new Scott did. Actually that last one is something our Scott picks up worryingly quickly and I can't say I was happy to watch him let people die that he probably could have saved.
Delete is a fast-paced action story and if there wasn't so much going on in it, I'm sure some of the people around Scott would have had more time to worry about his psychological well being — or at least to stop him being so involved in everything. As it is, they weren't even overly concerned about him running around on a gun-shot leg, so I suppose they're all used to putting the war first. I don't want to go into spoilers, but I found the end a little bit frustrating. I don't think it was a bad ending — it resolved everything and lived up to what we've come to expect from the series — but emotionally it was a bit distressing, possibly because of, well, reality whiplash. (Haha.)
Each book in this series has upped the stakes and Delete certainly continues that trend, this time putting the whole world on the line. I'd say that if you liked the first book but didn't think the stakes were high enough, keep reading!
If you enjoy fast-paced action books then I definitely recommend this series. And if you read Shift and Control, then forgot about Delete because of the delayed publication, then definitely pick up a copy of Delete. The re-released covers have been updated but still use the same art as the original set, so they won't even clash much if you bought the first two books from Strange Chemistry. Win! If you haven't read the earlier books but still read this review, I strongly recommend starting at the start of the series. I don't think it would make much sense otherwise.
4 / 5 stars
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At the end of Control, Scott made a massive shift to undo the events caused by Frankie, the main "bad guy" of that book. Well, actually, Scott forces her to undo her choices, so that he can save his girlfriend. Delete opens just as that shift has been made and Scott finds himself in a worse reality, one where world war three (although they don't call it that) is ravaging the UK. All shifter children are recruited to the army to fight, Scott is in charge of the whole fighting shifter department, and Project Ganymede, the programme cutting up kids' brains which Scott stopped in the previous reality, is in full swing on a greater scale. Turns out Frankie's manipulations of world political events, while self-serving, were at least holding war at bay.
It's immediately clear to Scott that the reality he finds himself in now is pretty crappy, but he resists shifting back immediately because he doesn't want Aubrey to be dead. Instead, with slight confusion since he doesn't have any memories of the war world, Scott tries to slip into the role he finds himself in until he can work out what's going on. It was established in the earlier books that Scott is special for being able to remember other realities for more than a few minutes. In the past, he eventually slots the new reality memories into his mind but this time the shift is so big (or something) that he spends the entire book not fully remembering everything. And also not undoing it until the very end.
However, new reality Scott does leak through, providing us with some character contrast. Old Scott didn't grow up on rations or during a war, while new Scott did. Old Scott never had to learn to make human sacrifices for the greater good while army-trained new Scott did. Actually that last one is something our Scott picks up worryingly quickly and I can't say I was happy to watch him let people die that he probably could have saved.
Delete is a fast-paced action story and if there wasn't so much going on in it, I'm sure some of the people around Scott would have had more time to worry about his psychological well being — or at least to stop him being so involved in everything. As it is, they weren't even overly concerned about him running around on a gun-shot leg, so I suppose they're all used to putting the war first. I don't want to go into spoilers, but I found the end a little bit frustrating. I don't think it was a bad ending — it resolved everything and lived up to what we've come to expect from the series — but emotionally it was a bit distressing, possibly because of, well, reality whiplash. (Haha.)
Each book in this series has upped the stakes and Delete certainly continues that trend, this time putting the whole world on the line. I'd say that if you liked the first book but didn't think the stakes were high enough, keep reading!
If you enjoy fast-paced action books then I definitely recommend this series. And if you read Shift and Control, then forgot about Delete because of the delayed publication, then definitely pick up a copy of Delete. The re-released covers have been updated but still use the same art as the original set, so they won't even clash much if you bought the first two books from Strange Chemistry. Win! If you haven't read the earlier books but still read this review, I strongly recommend starting at the start of the series. I don't think it would make much sense otherwise.
4 / 5 stars
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