Reviews

Rebel by Marie Lu

zgran25's review against another edition

medium-paced

4.75

kenjisbae_'s review against another edition

adventurous emotional tense medium-paced

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

4.0

"My home is where you are."
"Come home soon, then."
🥹✨️

ifyouhavebooks's review against another edition

4.0

Being able to revisit this world and these characters was amazing and I'm so so so very happy with the ending Day and June finally deserved! I thought this would be a five-star book for me, however, I just was not hooked the entire time like I was with the original trilogy. I think part of it was that I was not able to read from June's perspective, but I still enjoyed learning more about Eden. I still loved this book and I do not agree with the people who say this was a "cash grab" for Marie Lu. She wanted to revisit the world she created and explore it even further and as fans of this series, we should be happy we had another chance to revisit it. All in all, I'm extremely happy I was able to see all my hopes for some of my favorite characters ever come to fruition, even if the plot wasn't as compelling for me.

callumwbell's review against another edition

adventurous medium-paced

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

3.5

A nice follow up to a good series 

ireneamalaraj's review against another edition

adventurous emotional medium-paced

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

3.25

greyrose34's review against another edition

adventurous emotional hopeful inspiring sad tense fast-paced

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

4.0

the_berries_books's review against another edition

adventurous challenging emotional inspiring tense fast-paced

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

4.75

4 books and they finally get to be happy

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Death, Gun violence, and Violence

aylosfrijoles's review against another edition

2.75

It felt like eating a very dry, very tasteless piece of pie. This book takes a while to really take off - a dry top crust, if you will - and while there's a juicy middle full of tasty adventure, a sibling rivalry, and a crumbling dystopian government, we end up with a soggy bottom ending for our brothers.

A proposal from a beloved character to another (who doesn't even get a POV chapter this time around)

couldn't save a lackluster ending where

a big bad mafioso gets into a melee battle with a teenager??? Our main protagonist teaches his younger brother how to basically do parkour for like 15 minutes in the previous chapter, but suddenly he's also great at grappling and disarming grown men?? With guns!! And knives?! The final discussion between the main antagonist and our new hero, Eden, about right and wrong whilst grappling/parkour-ing was... a choice.

C'mon, I know this is YA and there's a certain level of cheese I should expect, but it's like author Marie Lu doesn't trust us to get the thesis of this godforsaken novel unless she writes it out for us 10 times. An unbelievable (negative) and sputtering final battle for a fascinating Legend series character like Eden, who deserved better.

This story was ultimately unnecessary, as we explored the VR tech in the Warcross series in a more successful and exciting way. There just wasn't much to root for. The stakes weren't high enough if we knew

Daniel and Eden were returning to the Republic anyway

. 

lada_bu_joreads's review against another edition

3.0

This was pretty nice. But it's a very simple storyline. Good guys, verses bad guy and coming of adulthood. It gave me Big Hero 6 feel. Happy ending, of course, and the romance is typical.

noelishi's review against another edition

3.0

Puntuación CAWPILE: 5.43
Personajes: 6.75
Ambientación / Worldbuilding: 7.75
Estilo de escritura: 6
Trama: 5
Enganche: 2,5
Lógica / Relaciones: 7
Disfrute: 3

Pienso que mi momento para leer este libro pasó. Recordaba vagamente la historia y lo que me gustó en su tiempo, pero ahora no tenía ese componente emocionante para mí, por lo que leí el libro casi por encima para poder cerrar el círculo.

No es un mal libro, aunque hay ciertos fallos en la traducción que no entorpecen la lectura, pero que dan rabia.