Legacy Code

by Autumn Kalquist

[shannonmiz]

Full review here.

Received from author in exchange for honest review.

This is a tough book for me to review, for a number of reasons. In fact, I had been putting off reviewing it, even though I liked it. But the time has come, I suppose, so bear with me. First, reading the synopsis, you know that this will be a hard book to read. Not in that "oh, this is dragging" way, because it is definitely not a meandering kind of book. It is fast paced, and full of action. No, it is hard because of the topics presented. The defect, the termination of pregnancies, it is really heavy stuff. It makes for a riveting book, but also a hard book to review. Again, not a bad thing, just the nature of the beast.

The plot of this book was pretty great. I loved the deception, I loved the struggle for the truth, I loved Era's character discovering things and then forcing herself to become stronger. Era's reactions seemed believable, and made sense in the story. And I quite enjoyed her friendship with Zephyr, even though Zephyr did manage to irritate me from time to time.

I would have liked a bit more world building, and a little more character development. While I did feel a connection with Era, I was a little underwhelmed by her relationship with Dritan. I mean, they said that they loved each other a lot, and there was one point (not talking about it, would spoil stuff) in which I felt it a little, but for the most part, I just didn't get a huge sense of chemistry there. The one other thing that makes it a bit hard to review is that some of the more "science-y" aspects got on my nerves. But that isn't really a fair criticism of the book, because I knew there would be sci-fi stuff going into it. Some of the terminology just made my eyes glaze a bit from time to time.

I definitely plan on continuing this series, as this book ended on just about the biggest cliffhanger I have ever read (bordering on evil, perhaps?) and I need to know what will happen, and what secrets will be revealed.