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Restore
Alone, back in slavery, Lexil must figure out a way to survive...
Lexil is back in Anstetor where it all began. Back to who she once was. Not only has she been separated from everyone she knows, she is imprisoned by a group of rogue Retrievers who want to brutally punish runaway Reborns.
Though obstacles are placed in her path, she continues her quest to rid the land of prejudice and slavery. Will she achieve her goal? Will she change beyond recognition by the choices she is forced to make?
Aided by unlikely sources, Lexil forges deeper into Anstetor, revisiting familiar places and haunting memories. New truths are presented to her. Relationships are challenged. Her body, mind, and emotions are pushed to the limit.
And Lexil will end up sacrificing more than she ever imagined...
Lexil is back in Anstetor where it all began. Back to who she once was. Not only has she been separated from everyone she knows, she is imprisoned by a group of rogue Retrievers who want to brutally punish runaway Reborns.
Though obstacles are placed in her path, she continues her quest to rid the land of prejudice and slavery. Will she achieve her goal? Will she change beyond recognition by the choices she is forced to make?
Aided by unlikely sources, Lexil forges deeper into Anstetor, revisiting familiar places and haunting memories. New truths are presented to her. Relationships are challenged. Her body, mind, and emotions are pushed to the limit.
And Lexil will end up sacrificing more than she ever imagined...
364 pages, Paperback
Published July 26, 2023
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Jenna Greene
20 books51 followersJenna Greene is a writer, podcaster, teacher, clumsy dancer, dragonboat coach, and semi-professional napper. She's also the co-host of "Quill and Ink: A Podcast for Book Lovers" with Miranda Oh.
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August 27, 2023
A dangerous mission starts out of the blue and gives an injection of adrenaline to the story, raising the stakes to the point of life or death. The odds? Surely not in their favor.
The reality of this third book in the series is gruesome and Jenna Greene does not shy away from showing it.
We are thrown back, and bound to the narrative of Jenna Greene, as the author resumes the story without funfair or recapitulations but in a way that makes us aware of the last chapters and events of the previous book (review here) .
In the few pages of the first part, the first chapter, one can get precious content, reflections, thoughts and a grim reality of what it’s like to ba considered less than a living being. At times, Jenna Greene summarizes them well:
“ If you deny someone’s humanity, you can do anything to them without batting an eye.”
Restore by Jenna Greene is a good example that, many times, to help someone you either have to stay put or leave. Good intentions do not count, and practicality isn’t always possible.
As we read we can get a stark distinction between gender attitudes in the book. Lexil is emotional, idealistic, naive and weak while brave. Ward and his brother are more logic-oriented, plan things ahead and weigh decisions.
The main character has great intentions, sure, and is brave, yet the author is able to show that even thought brave can be good, it can also be stupid. After all she went through, and even being told otherwise, she persists in this boldness and win-it-all attitude that at certain circumstances annoys. Adding this to the way she reacts when panicked, it makes her look even more naive and childish for still harboring these thoughts. But this is a built-in feature of the character and the author wanted to stress this to show readers how real life may play out using a dystopian world.
There is a suggestion that she is “equal” towards Ward, yet this suffers a blow whenever she is in a state of fear.
The dynamic between them follows a funny pattern. Lexil will get impulsive and activate her idealistic-bravado button, ignore common sense, and get them all in deep trouble, lol. Then, Ward will have to save her from the most avoidable of circumstances, many times at heavy prices. It’s the damsel in distress that wants to lead trope. I mean she literally throws herself in jail and captivity twice and then has no clue whatsoever how to get out, lol. It’s funny, yet, at times, you will want to slap her into sense and tie a leach around her so she doesn’t get into more trouble. It can be said that Ward has it coming because he submits to Lexil’s lead, when she has no idea what she’s doing, or the danger she’s putting everybody in.
The author may have wanted to show the stupidity of idealism, and how it may work, if you survive.
Luck will follow them, and their dangerous adventures. Older characters will appear out of the blue when the time seems the most unlikely, and many will stay to help. The truth will be in the most unlikely places, where danger and death lurk, while imprisonment follows closely behind,
There is a needed message on the book that many people miss or ignore, and that is of equality in people in the sense of them being people. This is repeated enough times to hit the spot in even the most distracted reader, without it being annoying.
Another message hidden in plain sight, is the fact that, in societies, there’s always a set of people, a small group that uses or creates differences in order for them to hate each other while they rule by subjugating and oppressing one of the sides of the group, specially the majority, so they can better manage that minority while keeping it focused on oppressing the other group as well. This is so common in fact that most societies called “civilized” do this as standard. The divide and conquer strategy. It’s a nice point from the author.
One cool thing about this part of the series, is that Jenna Greene brings up the violence of mistreatment, and slavery. Not to the point where it can be considered horrific though. She does a great job of making the reader sensitive and attentive to the mistreatment of other people because of a condition that they cannot control. The creation of justifications for the mistreatment and abuse in those elements is also a great point.
We have very interesting characters in this third chapter of the Reborn Marks Series series, some so peculiar and that as you read, you will ask at first, why they were put there. You get introduced to new characters all the time, each with their motives and set of worries, keeping the book fresh and interesting. Not all of them are friends, or friendly, not all of them are logical, but all of them interesting. The way they come, do their job and go is something interesting as well. This took us by surprise, as the previous book, Renew (review here), was more constant in this aspect.
There are many swift thriller scenes that will grip your attention for four or five pages as they run from either retrievers, prisons, camps and fires they provoked one way or the other. This is the main difference from the previous book, genre-wise if we so can say. There is more thriller and less fantasy and romance.
Once you get used to the antics of Lex, this book is very nice and fast-paced, as you will keep running with the characters and Jenna Greene will keep you entertained in these runs for their lives.
Restore by Jenna Greene is a worthy continuation from the previous book Renew, and an interesting stepping stone to the final book of the Reborn Marks Series to which the epilogue hints to. We are eager to read the next book as there’s still much more for us to discover.
Pros:
Good narrative
Great descriptions
Geat emotional and moral points in the plot
The character’s personalities were kept consistent yet unpredictable
New characters that will make you raise your eyebrows in surprise
Good humour
Strong scenes when needed, some quite graphic and brutal
Cons:
There’s this tone of equality of men and women that the women in the plot, clearly don’t step in, or the men have to somehow step down. It’s unnecessary.
Lesson of the book: Burn what binds
Cover Score: 8.0/10
Book score: 8.3/10
The reality of this third book in the series is gruesome and Jenna Greene does not shy away from showing it.
We are thrown back, and bound to the narrative of Jenna Greene, as the author resumes the story without funfair or recapitulations but in a way that makes us aware of the last chapters and events of the previous book (review here) .
In the few pages of the first part, the first chapter, one can get precious content, reflections, thoughts and a grim reality of what it’s like to ba considered less than a living being. At times, Jenna Greene summarizes them well:
“ If you deny someone’s humanity, you can do anything to them without batting an eye.”
Restore by Jenna Greene is a good example that, many times, to help someone you either have to stay put or leave. Good intentions do not count, and practicality isn’t always possible.
As we read we can get a stark distinction between gender attitudes in the book. Lexil is emotional, idealistic, naive and weak while brave. Ward and his brother are more logic-oriented, plan things ahead and weigh decisions.
The main character has great intentions, sure, and is brave, yet the author is able to show that even thought brave can be good, it can also be stupid. After all she went through, and even being told otherwise, she persists in this boldness and win-it-all attitude that at certain circumstances annoys. Adding this to the way she reacts when panicked, it makes her look even more naive and childish for still harboring these thoughts. But this is a built-in feature of the character and the author wanted to stress this to show readers how real life may play out using a dystopian world.
There is a suggestion that she is “equal” towards Ward, yet this suffers a blow whenever she is in a state of fear.
The dynamic between them follows a funny pattern. Lexil will get impulsive and activate her idealistic-bravado button, ignore common sense, and get them all in deep trouble, lol. Then, Ward will have to save her from the most avoidable of circumstances, many times at heavy prices. It’s the damsel in distress that wants to lead trope. I mean she literally throws herself in jail and captivity twice and then has no clue whatsoever how to get out, lol. It’s funny, yet, at times, you will want to slap her into sense and tie a leach around her so she doesn’t get into more trouble. It can be said that Ward has it coming because he submits to Lexil’s lead, when she has no idea what she’s doing, or the danger she’s putting everybody in.
The author may have wanted to show the stupidity of idealism, and how it may work, if you survive.
Luck will follow them, and their dangerous adventures. Older characters will appear out of the blue when the time seems the most unlikely, and many will stay to help. The truth will be in the most unlikely places, where danger and death lurk, while imprisonment follows closely behind,
There is a needed message on the book that many people miss or ignore, and that is of equality in people in the sense of them being people. This is repeated enough times to hit the spot in even the most distracted reader, without it being annoying.
Another message hidden in plain sight, is the fact that, in societies, there’s always a set of people, a small group that uses or creates differences in order for them to hate each other while they rule by subjugating and oppressing one of the sides of the group, specially the majority, so they can better manage that minority while keeping it focused on oppressing the other group as well. This is so common in fact that most societies called “civilized” do this as standard. The divide and conquer strategy. It’s a nice point from the author.
One cool thing about this part of the series, is that Jenna Greene brings up the violence of mistreatment, and slavery. Not to the point where it can be considered horrific though. She does a great job of making the reader sensitive and attentive to the mistreatment of other people because of a condition that they cannot control. The creation of justifications for the mistreatment and abuse in those elements is also a great point.
We have very interesting characters in this third chapter of the Reborn Marks Series series, some so peculiar and that as you read, you will ask at first, why they were put there. You get introduced to new characters all the time, each with their motives and set of worries, keeping the book fresh and interesting. Not all of them are friends, or friendly, not all of them are logical, but all of them interesting. The way they come, do their job and go is something interesting as well. This took us by surprise, as the previous book, Renew (review here), was more constant in this aspect.
There are many swift thriller scenes that will grip your attention for four or five pages as they run from either retrievers, prisons, camps and fires they provoked one way or the other. This is the main difference from the previous book, genre-wise if we so can say. There is more thriller and less fantasy and romance.
Once you get used to the antics of Lex, this book is very nice and fast-paced, as you will keep running with the characters and Jenna Greene will keep you entertained in these runs for their lives.
Restore by Jenna Greene is a worthy continuation from the previous book Renew, and an interesting stepping stone to the final book of the Reborn Marks Series to which the epilogue hints to. We are eager to read the next book as there’s still much more for us to discover.
Pros:
Good narrative
Great descriptions
Geat emotional and moral points in the plot
The character’s personalities were kept consistent yet unpredictable
New characters that will make you raise your eyebrows in surprise
Good humour
Strong scenes when needed, some quite graphic and brutal
Cons:
There’s this tone of equality of men and women that the women in the plot, clearly don’t step in, or the men have to somehow step down. It’s unnecessary.
Lesson of the book: Burn what binds
Cover Score: 8.0/10
Book score: 8.3/10
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