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Reborn City #2
Video Rage
When Zahara Bakur was forced to join the Hydras, she had no idea that the leaders of the growing street gang got their superpowers from the shadowy Parthenon Company. Nor did she ever expect that after Parthenon's CEO Jason Price was done with the Hydras, he would try to have them all killed. Or that she and her friends would have to flee in order to survive.
In the epic sequel to Reborn City, Rami Ungar takes us further into the world of Anno Bombus as Zahara and her friends to outrun Jason Price and the numerous forces sent against them. With tensions high in the group and old enemies hot on their trails, the Hydras will be tested beyond their limits if they hope to survive what fate has in store for them.
And maybe find hope in the most unlikely of places.
In the epic sequel to Reborn City, Rami Ungar takes us further into the world of Anno Bombus as Zahara and her friends to outrun Jason Price and the numerous forces sent against them. With tensions high in the group and old enemies hot on their trails, the Hydras will be tested beyond their limits if they hope to survive what fate has in store for them.
And maybe find hope in the most unlikely of places.
366 pages, Paperback
Published June 1, 2016
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Rami Ungar
22 books128 followersRami Ungar is a novelist from Columbus, OH specializing in horror and dark fantasy. He has published five books and a variety of short stories. His most recent book, "Hannah and Other Stories," was published in September 2023. When not writing, Rami enjoys reading, following his many interests, and giving readers the impression that he's not entirely human.
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July 5, 2019
A fitting follow-up to Reborn City! Plenty of action and super-heroes doing super-hero stuff. But the real attributes go deeper and include elements of family, loyalty, redemption, justice, and revenge. And it all takes place in a futuristic Balkanized America where corporate power and national entities struggle while human beings are caught in between. A fun read and a good second installment. Waiting eagerly on the third!
July 3, 2019
A fitting follow-up to Reborn City! Plenty of action and super-heroes doing super-hero stuff. But the real attributes go deeper and include elements of family, loyalty, redemption, justice, and revenge. And it all takes place in a futuristic Balkanized America where corporate power and national entities struggle while human beings are caught in between. A fun read and a good second installment. Waiting eagerly on the third!
June 16, 2016
**I was provided with a copy by the author in exchange for an honest review!**
Some of you may remember me reading the first part of the series, Reborn City, by my friend and fellow blogger Rami Ungar last year. I am still not entirely on board with the covers, but I am happy to see that a lot more effort went into this one. Also, having read the story it really makes sense and that’s definitely important.
Now, in Video Rage, we jump right back into the story. I was glad that the Hydras way of talking wasn’t as distracting as it was in the last book, probably because they were in a different kind of environment where their slang wasn’t really needed so much. I still can’t believe that the main character, Zahara, is only 15 years old though. Somehow that just doesn’t feel completely right, even though she can still be naive sometimes.
I am a little torn when it comes to the personal relationships of the members of the Hydras. On the one hand, I feel like Rami tried to show the connections between all the members, but on the other hand I felt that they were much more present in the previous book. That’s probably also why I felt a little less connected this time around. It was all written there, but it simply didn’t click. Everything just seemed to fall into place a little too nicely sometimes.
Nevertheless, the book was fast paced and had a great villain in 011. He was wicked and cruel and I actually didn’t want to read the sequences where he made his symphony sometimes. This book gave him a couple more layers, which was great, although it would have been interesting to find out something about his life before he became who he came to be. I think it would generally be intriguing if the people with superpowers could remember their past or maybe suddenly had someone from their past pop up.
Finally, Rami has a certain talent for ending a story. His epilogue always makes you wonder what will happen next and that’s basically what keeps you hooked in a book.
Fazit: 3/5 stars! Unfortunately I didn’t feel as connected with the characters or story as I did in the first book, but I still would like to know how the series wraps up!
Some of you may remember me reading the first part of the series, Reborn City, by my friend and fellow blogger Rami Ungar last year. I am still not entirely on board with the covers, but I am happy to see that a lot more effort went into this one. Also, having read the story it really makes sense and that’s definitely important.
Now, in Video Rage, we jump right back into the story. I was glad that the Hydras way of talking wasn’t as distracting as it was in the last book, probably because they were in a different kind of environment where their slang wasn’t really needed so much. I still can’t believe that the main character, Zahara, is only 15 years old though. Somehow that just doesn’t feel completely right, even though she can still be naive sometimes.
I am a little torn when it comes to the personal relationships of the members of the Hydras. On the one hand, I feel like Rami tried to show the connections between all the members, but on the other hand I felt that they were much more present in the previous book. That’s probably also why I felt a little less connected this time around. It was all written there, but it simply didn’t click. Everything just seemed to fall into place a little too nicely sometimes.
Nevertheless, the book was fast paced and had a great villain in 011. He was wicked and cruel and I actually didn’t want to read the sequences where he made his symphony sometimes. This book gave him a couple more layers, which was great, although it would have been interesting to find out something about his life before he became who he came to be. I think it would generally be intriguing if the people with superpowers could remember their past or maybe suddenly had someone from their past pop up.
Finally, Rami has a certain talent for ending a story. His epilogue always makes you wonder what will happen next and that’s basically what keeps you hooked in a book.
Fazit: 3/5 stars! Unfortunately I didn’t feel as connected with the characters or story as I did in the first book, but I still would like to know how the series wraps up!
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