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Cracks #2
Fragments
The story started with Cal. His everyday life cracked apart to reveal a reality he could barely believe.
Now join Kyla, the girl who saved Cal from being locked up in his own mind . . .
In a paranoid, near-future Britain, Kyla is alone, and hiding out from the ruthless Counterinsurgency and Anti-Terror Squads, known as CATS.
But instead of capturing her, the CATS cut her a deal. They want to brainwash Kyla, and use the talents that make her elusive – her athletic ability, cunning and quick-thinking – to turn her into a valuable asset of their own . . . hunting down the very people fighting for her freedom.
Will Kyla wake up to the real truth? Or will she be trapped forever in a terrifying world?
Sequel to the bestselling Cracks.
Now join Kyla, the girl who saved Cal from being locked up in his own mind . . .
In a paranoid, near-future Britain, Kyla is alone, and hiding out from the ruthless Counterinsurgency and Anti-Terror Squads, known as CATS.
But instead of capturing her, the CATS cut her a deal. They want to brainwash Kyla, and use the talents that make her elusive – her athletic ability, cunning and quick-thinking – to turn her into a valuable asset of their own . . . hunting down the very people fighting for her freedom.
Will Kyla wake up to the real truth? Or will she be trapped forever in a terrifying world?
Sequel to the bestselling Cracks.
- GenresDystopia
272 pages, Paperback
First published March 1, 2014
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July 13, 2014
Pulling off a sequel to a popular first book can be tricky, but Caroline Green manages it masterfully. Following on from Cracks, this clever dystopia is set just a few years in the future, and the blend of the familiar with the new gives it a peculiarly creepy power. I love Green’s inventiveness, particularly with acronyms like Cats Eyes, the name for spies working for the Counterinsurgency and Anti-Terror Squad. The scenes set in London were particularly gripping, and Green’s ability to provide relentless tension kept me glued right to the end.
Even better than the first book. Not to be missed.
Even better than the first book. Not to be missed.
November 10, 2022
WOW I really loved reading Fragments which is the sequel to Cracks a dystopian thriller by Caroline Green and is part of her young adults series.
Kyla and Cal are staying a at a safe house which is a farmhouse where Cal, his parents and some of the team of TORCH which is a rebel group who are against an organisation called CATS who are a counterinsurgency and anti terrorist squad who in turn want to crush TORCH. Sadly the farmhouse gets bombed due to an informant and only Kyla manages to escape.
She finds refuge with a family at a country house and works for a roof over her head as a nanny and housekeeper to a Mother called Charlotte and her young daughter aged six called Ariella and baby brother Kit. Ariella tells Kyla that a special guest is coming tonight and her Daddy says he is a big cat and Ariella asks him if he meant like a tiger and then he laughed. 'But I don't think it's funny because tigers eat people, don't they, Kyla?' From the words of babes and how true too.
The Father of the household Mick who works mainly away returns and attempts to rape Kyla and she lashes out at him with a broken glass. Unfortunately a senior member of CATS called Alexander who has been invited over catches them and Mick fabricates a lie that Kyla is a thief as she had been rifling through his wallet and no matter how strongly Kyla protests that it was self defence no-one believes her.
Kyla is taken away from the farmhouse and interrogated by Alexander who gives her the choice of staying at the facility or do security work for his organisation at one of his training centres. Unbeknown to Kyla she has signed up unwillingly to become an informant for CATS.
Kyla trains in Scotland area six and is being brainwashed into hating TORCH and sent out to infiltrate and report back to CATS in order for them to obliterate them.
There is a lovely part in the book where Kyla sees a stag in the mist from the grounds where she is staying and she sees how peaceful and proud the stag stands and toward the end of the book she discovers the stag represented freedom.
This thrilling story unfolds to a crescendo of an ending and we get to find out if Cal and Kyla survive their ordeals or not.
Kyla and Cal are staying a at a safe house which is a farmhouse where Cal, his parents and some of the team of TORCH which is a rebel group who are against an organisation called CATS who are a counterinsurgency and anti terrorist squad who in turn want to crush TORCH. Sadly the farmhouse gets bombed due to an informant and only Kyla manages to escape.
She finds refuge with a family at a country house and works for a roof over her head as a nanny and housekeeper to a Mother called Charlotte and her young daughter aged six called Ariella and baby brother Kit. Ariella tells Kyla that a special guest is coming tonight and her Daddy says he is a big cat and Ariella asks him if he meant like a tiger and then he laughed. 'But I don't think it's funny because tigers eat people, don't they, Kyla?' From the words of babes and how true too.
The Father of the household Mick who works mainly away returns and attempts to rape Kyla and she lashes out at him with a broken glass. Unfortunately a senior member of CATS called Alexander who has been invited over catches them and Mick fabricates a lie that Kyla is a thief as she had been rifling through his wallet and no matter how strongly Kyla protests that it was self defence no-one believes her.
Kyla is taken away from the farmhouse and interrogated by Alexander who gives her the choice of staying at the facility or do security work for his organisation at one of his training centres. Unbeknown to Kyla she has signed up unwillingly to become an informant for CATS.
Kyla trains in Scotland area six and is being brainwashed into hating TORCH and sent out to infiltrate and report back to CATS in order for them to obliterate them.
There is a lovely part in the book where Kyla sees a stag in the mist from the grounds where she is staying and she sees how peaceful and proud the stag stands and toward the end of the book she discovers the stag represented freedom.
This thrilling story unfolds to a crescendo of an ending and we get to find out if Cal and Kyla survive their ordeals or not.
June 19, 2025
Exceed my expectations! I saw this sequel at a book fair but they didn’t sell the first book😭 So I bought it without even knowing what was the first book’s story.. It still makes sense though :) But part 3 was kinda confusing cus who tf is Adem😀 Anyways, this book pretty much reminded me of the Mockingjay novel from the Hunger Games trilogy which is my fav novels and this novel didnt really have many difficult words to understand which i love! This book basically brainwashed me too
April 19, 2014
INITIAL THOUGHTS
I hadn't actually realised this one had been released. When I found out it was due I contacted Piccadilly Press who kindly sent me a paperback copy in exchange for my honest review. After reading Bk#1 Cracks I had been looking forward to Bk #2 Fragments as I wanted to know more! So approaching this one I was really looking forward to reading it and wondered if it would be as good as Bk#1.
MY REVIEW
So as I said above Piccadilly Press kindly sent me a copy in exchange for my honest review. So Fragments literally picks up where Cracks left off. Though there are some reminders as you go through the book in case you have forgotten things from Bk#1.
It's difficult to tell you a great deal without giving away spoilers. But I feel I must giveaway one in that the farmhouse where Cal & Kyla are staying, their "safe house" is bombed and totally destroyed. Luckily Kyla is out when this happens, though she is still devastated by the event. She has no option but to go it alone. She stays briefly with a rather odd family. Someone (no spoilers see) attacks her and in defending herself the authorities become involved and she is given a choice she can go to prison straightaway and wait for her case to be heard, which will likely be a long time, in fact it's hinted that she could be dead before the case is heard. Or she can go to a training school and become a Cats Eye. Neither option is a great one, or even a safe one. Kyla reasons out in her own head that she may have a better chance of escaping and then "disappearing" if she goes to the training school. So Kyla's choice is made and she is taken to the Scotland to the anti-terrorist training centre where awful types of physical and emotional tests are done. Kyla is told so many times that Torch is not a rebel group, that in fact they are the terrorists that she kind of comes to believe. I mean she has little choice in the matter. She suffers sleep deprivation, as well as emotional desensitization among other tortures, but she makes it through. The Cat's organisation have turned her into what they would call an anti terrorist soldier. Kyla is set to watch a young girl called Laura, who is thought to be in contact with the "terrorists" called Torch. It's when Kyla is following the girl that she see's a face from her past. At first she thinks it impossible, some sort of trick of her brain. Kyla ends up learning the other side of the Cat's Eye Vs Torch story. Who are the real terrorists, Cat's or Torch? Now what can she do? Can she ever be happy and safe . . .and find love again?
I really enjoyed this book, in fact I loved it even more than Bk in the Cracks Series. I grew really attached to the character of Kyla and really wanted her to get through her training even though I thought Cat's Eye where a dubious organisation. The book is so well written that you feel Kyla's desperation at her situation. I also think the character of Skye is well written that you immediately hate her and feel wary and suspicious of her. It's just a feeling you get from how Caroline Green writes that character and then part way through and then right near the end we see our bad feelings about Skye are well founded.
So did I enjoy the book? Yes, this Bk really draws you in and holds you. I mean I read this in just three sittings! Would I recommend the book? Definitely I loved even more than BK1. I'd also point out that it will appeal to a wide ranging audience, YA female & YA male as well as older non YA readers. Would I read another book in this series? Hmm I'm not sure there will be another one. but if there is I'd reeeeally want to read it. Would I read another book written by this author? Yes I like her more complex plots, that totally draw you in and hold you to the very last page.
I hadn't actually realised this one had been released. When I found out it was due I contacted Piccadilly Press who kindly sent me a paperback copy in exchange for my honest review. After reading Bk#1 Cracks I had been looking forward to Bk #2 Fragments as I wanted to know more! So approaching this one I was really looking forward to reading it and wondered if it would be as good as Bk#1.
MY REVIEW
So as I said above Piccadilly Press kindly sent me a copy in exchange for my honest review. So Fragments literally picks up where Cracks left off. Though there are some reminders as you go through the book in case you have forgotten things from Bk#1.
It's difficult to tell you a great deal without giving away spoilers. But I feel I must giveaway one in that the farmhouse where Cal & Kyla are staying, their "safe house" is bombed and totally destroyed. Luckily Kyla is out when this happens, though she is still devastated by the event. She has no option but to go it alone. She stays briefly with a rather odd family. Someone (no spoilers see) attacks her and in defending herself the authorities become involved and she is given a choice she can go to prison straightaway and wait for her case to be heard, which will likely be a long time, in fact it's hinted that she could be dead before the case is heard. Or she can go to a training school and become a Cats Eye. Neither option is a great one, or even a safe one. Kyla reasons out in her own head that she may have a better chance of escaping and then "disappearing" if she goes to the training school. So Kyla's choice is made and she is taken to the Scotland to the anti-terrorist training centre where awful types of physical and emotional tests are done. Kyla is told so many times that Torch is not a rebel group, that in fact they are the terrorists that she kind of comes to believe. I mean she has little choice in the matter. She suffers sleep deprivation, as well as emotional desensitization among other tortures, but she makes it through. The Cat's organisation have turned her into what they would call an anti terrorist soldier. Kyla is set to watch a young girl called Laura, who is thought to be in contact with the "terrorists" called Torch. It's when Kyla is following the girl that she see's a face from her past. At first she thinks it impossible, some sort of trick of her brain. Kyla ends up learning the other side of the Cat's Eye Vs Torch story. Who are the real terrorists, Cat's or Torch? Now what can she do? Can she ever be happy and safe . . .and find love again?
I really enjoyed this book, in fact I loved it even more than Bk in the Cracks Series. I grew really attached to the character of Kyla and really wanted her to get through her training even though I thought Cat's Eye where a dubious organisation. The book is so well written that you feel Kyla's desperation at her situation. I also think the character of Skye is well written that you immediately hate her and feel wary and suspicious of her. It's just a feeling you get from how Caroline Green writes that character and then part way through and then right near the end we see our bad feelings about Skye are well founded.
So did I enjoy the book? Yes, this Bk really draws you in and holds you. I mean I read this in just three sittings! Would I recommend the book? Definitely I loved even more than BK1. I'd also point out that it will appeal to a wide ranging audience, YA female & YA male as well as older non YA readers. Would I read another book in this series? Hmm I'm not sure there will be another one. but if there is I'd reeeeally want to read it. Would I read another book written by this author? Yes I like her more complex plots, that totally draw you in and hold you to the very last page.
May 6, 2014
Review by Beth
This is a review which is almost impossible to write without including spoilers about Cracks, its prequel. I’ll try not to but realistically you probably shouldn’t read this until you’ve read Cracks – I don’t want to ruin anyone’s experience of the series as it’s a thrilling race through a new dystopian Britain that readers of all ages can enjoy.
In Fragments our protagonist is Kyla, a very close friend and potential romantic interest of Cal, the lead in the previous novel. Whilst Cal was trying to get to grips with his new life after spending most of his childhood in a coma, being controlled with and experimented on, Kyla has always been free. She has no family and the novel begins with Cal & Kyla in a safe house with many other characters, some part of the TORCH terrorist organisation.
The safe house explodes but Kyla survives and is able to escape from the aftermath, with the belief that no one except herself has survived. Devastated and pretty sure she is being looked for by government Counterinsurgency and Anti-Terror Squads (CATS) she runs and tries to find her way in the world anyway she can. She’s only young and it’s clear she can’t last long and soon faces capture and the dilemma of prison or becoming one of the CATS.
It doesn’t seem like much of a choice. It’s hard to see how Kyla will possibly survive this in one piece and keep her beliefs and morals straight. Green puts her in the ultimate Catch-22 situation and then the reader watches on painfully as Kyla has to find her own way through her choice.
It’s a brilliant concept and it’s almost all too believable. As Kyla struggles with reality, her beliefs and what’s truly the case, she also dreams of Cal and wonders what may have been had their not been the explosion at the safe house.
The world Caroline Green has created for her young characters is terrifying, it’s hard to see how they can ever find solace or a way out. No one seems to live without fear and it’s a disparaging but ultimately captivating view of our potential near future.
This is a review which is almost impossible to write without including spoilers about Cracks, its prequel. I’ll try not to but realistically you probably shouldn’t read this until you’ve read Cracks – I don’t want to ruin anyone’s experience of the series as it’s a thrilling race through a new dystopian Britain that readers of all ages can enjoy.
In Fragments our protagonist is Kyla, a very close friend and potential romantic interest of Cal, the lead in the previous novel. Whilst Cal was trying to get to grips with his new life after spending most of his childhood in a coma, being controlled with and experimented on, Kyla has always been free. She has no family and the novel begins with Cal & Kyla in a safe house with many other characters, some part of the TORCH terrorist organisation.
The safe house explodes but Kyla survives and is able to escape from the aftermath, with the belief that no one except herself has survived. Devastated and pretty sure she is being looked for by government Counterinsurgency and Anti-Terror Squads (CATS) she runs and tries to find her way in the world anyway she can. She’s only young and it’s clear she can’t last long and soon faces capture and the dilemma of prison or becoming one of the CATS.
It doesn’t seem like much of a choice. It’s hard to see how Kyla will possibly survive this in one piece and keep her beliefs and morals straight. Green puts her in the ultimate Catch-22 situation and then the reader watches on painfully as Kyla has to find her own way through her choice.
It’s a brilliant concept and it’s almost all too believable. As Kyla struggles with reality, her beliefs and what’s truly the case, she also dreams of Cal and wonders what may have been had their not been the explosion at the safe house.
The world Caroline Green has created for her young characters is terrifying, it’s hard to see how they can ever find solace or a way out. No one seems to live without fear and it’s a disparaging but ultimately captivating view of our potential near future.
February 2, 2015
Very good book, kept me guessing a bit. A bit predictable in places but still a good story.
December 8, 2016
The thrilling sequel to Cracks, told from Kyla's point of view. Just as good as the first book!
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