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A review by pwbalto
The Severed Tower by J. Barton Mitchell
2.0
Teenage Mira and Holt find themselves committed to protecting 8-year-old Zoey, whose mysterious powers compel her on a dangerous journey through the Strange Lands to the Severed Tower. As Mira and Holt pass through stages of trust and distrust for each other, they each must come to terms with former lovers. The reader is plunged into the middle of the action, with only glancing references to events from the first book of the series that would explain the absence of adults, presence of the Assembly, and the Tone, a progressive eye discoloration that seems to turn humans into Assembly slaves.
Gamers will recognize some of the conventions of the Strange Lands: the warped landscape dotted with obstacles that must be surmounted using the right combination of strategy and talismans, and the factions that seek to impede, capture, or assist the trio - the piratical Menagerie, ninja-like White Helix, and the Assembly, machine-bodied alien conquerors of Earth. Best for readers who like their post-apocalypses weird and woolly - fans of Julianna Baggott’s Pure, Dan Wells’s Partials, and Anne Aguirre’s Enclave books.
Reviewed for Booklist —Paula Willey
Gamers will recognize some of the conventions of the Strange Lands: the warped landscape dotted with obstacles that must be surmounted using the right combination of strategy and talismans, and the factions that seek to impede, capture, or assist the trio - the piratical Menagerie, ninja-like White Helix, and the Assembly, machine-bodied alien conquerors of Earth. Best for readers who like their post-apocalypses weird and woolly - fans of Julianna Baggott’s Pure, Dan Wells’s Partials, and Anne Aguirre’s Enclave books.
Reviewed for Booklist —Paula Willey