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The Rebel Trap (Rebels Book 2) Kindle Edition
“Annabelle. She fits right up there with Katniss and Tris” – Terri LeBlanc
“Fairly self-contained sequel to The Rebel Within … faster paced and goes deeper into character development … solid action scenes and interesting characters” – Marina Fontaine
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FEDERAL UNION HUNTS BOYS …
BOY BEGS FOR ANNABELLE’S HELP …
ANNABELLE HAS AUDIO IMPLANTS, CONTACT CAMERAS, AND NO PRIVACY …
HELPING COULD DESTROY HER FAMILY.
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Helping a boy escape may not have been Annabelle Scott’s smartest move. Her military commander assigns her an undercover mission to spy on local police and gives her audio implants and contact cameras to hear and watch everything she does.
Perfect for fans of the Hunger Games, Divergent, and Maze Runner. The Rebel Trap is the second book in a science fiction thriller series in which a young woman is drafted into the elite military to enforce laws she believes are wrong.
A second American Civil War ended in a shaky stalemate with the country divided into the “civilized” Federal Union and the warlord-controlled Outland. Annabelle lost her biological parents to the conflict when she was little and was adopted by a member of the Union’s political opposition. The loss of her parents and her adoptive mom’s opposition leads Annabelle to be rebellious in a society where conformity is everything and disobedience is punished.
Drafted into the elite military to capture escaped boys, she stayed true to her conscience by helping Morgan to escape, but there are consequences. He hacks her implants to plead for her help to rescue his brother from a heavily guarded geek institute. Suspected of helping Morgan and with her mom in the opposition, Annabelle risks getting the boy and his brother killed, her mom framed for treason, and her and her sister imprisoned, killed, or sent to the Outland as slaves.
Unable to get either her commander or Morgan out of her head, Annabelle can’t confide in anyone, which tears at her bond to her sister and mom. As a pawn in a bigger game, who and what can Annabelle trust, including whether her mission is the commander’s vendetta? Can she find a way to help Morgan and discover the link between an attempted assassination of her mom, the geek institute, and her corrupt police captain without leading Morgan into a trap or destroying herself and her family?
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Book 1: The Rebel Within – http://www.amazon.com/dp/B00C0WEZ48
Book 2: The Rebel Trap – http://www.amazon.com/dp/B00N8AIEM0
Book 3: Rebels Divided – http://www.amazon.com/dp/B00DC80QGU
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- ASIN : B00N8AIEM0
- Publisher : Finlee Augare Books (October 1, 2014)
- Publication date : October 1, 2014
- Language : English
- File size : 2499 KB
- Simultaneous device usage : Unlimited
- Text-to-Speech : Enabled
- Screen Reader : Supported
- Enhanced typesetting : Enabled
- X-Ray : Not Enabled
- Word Wise : Enabled
- Print length : 271 pages
- Best Sellers Rank: #4,235,517 in Kindle Store (See Top 100 in Kindle Store)
- #5,377 in Teen & Young Adult Dystopian eBooks
- #9,650 in Teen & Young Adult Dystopian
- #26,917 in Dystopian Science Fiction (Kindle Store)
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About the author
Lance Erlick writes science fiction thrillers for adult and young adult readers. In 2018, he launched his Android Chronicles novels with Reborn and continued it with Unbound and Emergent. His father was an aerospace engineer who moved often while working on science-related projects, including the Apollo spacecraft and the original GPS satellites. As a result, Lance spent his childhood in California, the East Coast, and Europe. He took to science fiction stories to escape life on the move, turning to Asimov, Bradbury, Heinlein, and others. In college he studied physics, but migrated to political science, earning his BS and MBA at Indiana University. He has also studied writing at Ball State, the University of Iowa, and Northwestern University. Lance has won a wide audience for Xenogeneic: First Contact and for his Rebel and Regina Shen series
To learn more about the author and his stories visit his website at http://www.LanceErlick.com.
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- Reviewed in the United States on February 24, 2015The Rebel Trab by Lance Erlick follows a young girl by the name of Belle who has been thrown out the Mech Warrior institute because of not killing a young man she met on the battle arena. The story is set in a futuristic world where men have been outcasted and only women remain. Some men have been captured and are either imprisoned or used by the Mech Warrior institute for practice in how to kill. We are thrown in the middle of the action, where Belle has been kicked out of the Mech Warrior institute, if only for a second. Secretly, the leader of the institute wants her to stay and spy on the police force, as they fear it may be corrupt. Meanwhile, Morgan, the boy she saved, has escaped with other imprisoned boys and somehow is able to talk to Belle through a device in her brain. Along with this, Belle’s sister has been secretly recruited to the Mech Warriors as well. There are many twists and turns through this story and it always keeps you on your toes.
I found the characters to be quite dynamic, Belle being strong, yet still acting her age, he being only 16, which gave her a sense of realness. I wanted to know more about Morgan, but I think that more was explained in the first book, which I have yet to read. Belle reminded me a bit like Katniss, in that she was a strong warrior but sees the corruption of the world.
But also you know there is something going on, and the world is full of secrets...
There are a lot of secrets going on throughout the book, which left you wanting more when ending a chapter. I couldn’t put the book down and read it in only a few sittings. I loved how Lance Erlick was able to weave so much together, yet execute it in a way that made sense. The only problems I had were that I didn’t understand why the men had been exiled and I also didn’t like how he had a change in point of view since Belle was in first person, and in other chapters it was another person in third person. To me, that distracts from the flow, but it could just be a personal thing and I got used to it after a few chapters.
So if you like military science fiction, young adult science fiction, strong girl characters, or a complex plot and secrecy, this is definitely the book for you. It is a lot like Hunger Games meets AeonFlux, so if you enjoyed either of those movies, you will enjoy this series! I give it 4.5/5!
Original review posted on A Bibliophile's Reverie
- Reviewed in the United States on January 22, 2015[Full disclosure: I received a free ebook in conjunction with the blog tour in exchange for an honest review.]
The Rebel Trap is the sequel to The Rebel Within but is actually the third in chronological order in Lance Erlick’s rebel series. (Although within the book universe it’s actually book #2.) Thankfully for me, you don’t have to read the first installment about Annabelle to understand this book. It seems that the whole series is quite self-contained so that you can start at the end like I did or start at the beginning.
What I really liked about the book was the characters. Of course your impressions of many of them are biased because you’re seeing them largely through Annabelle, but I like how Lance Erlick gave us insights into people around the main character, including her sister Janine and her adoptive mother. But of course Annabelle was my favourite character. She’s tough and determined to succeed in life but there’s a slight hitch when she gets auditory implants and contacts that allow her commander to see and hear everything she does for a mission. There’s a lack of privacy and then there’s having your boss see and hear everything you do.
Still, she finds a rather interesting way around it as Morgan constantly hounds her to help him rescue his little brother. And that really showcases the complexity of Annabelle: she wants to help Morgan’s little brother because she knows imprisoning young boys and men for their gender is wrong but at the same time she needs to root out the corruption taking hold in her society. Did I mention that she’s also caught in a little power war between the commander of the Mech Corps and the commander of the police? Like all teenagers, Annabelle does angst a fair bit, but unlike some her angst is completely deserved at this point so it’s not actually annoying for the reader.
The only thing I didn’t really like about this book was the repetitiveness of the plot. It seemed to follow a pattern: Sam would tell Annabelle not to do something, she’d do it, Sam would be happy because she discovered new evidence against Commander Voss and Scarlatti. This was sort of understandable the first few times because Annabelle was figuring things out and really blundering through the whole ‘subtle’ part of the missions, but it got kind of annoying after the fourth or fifth time. Unfortunately, this constant repetition made the plot kind of predictable. I knew how it was going to end and I saw pretty much all of the twists and turns because of course everything Annabelle tries to do as an intern cop is made to trip her up.
Still, despite my dislike of the whole repetitiveness of the thing, the plot was at least reasonably fast-paced. It was slow enough for Lance Erlick to develop his characters properly but not so slow as to bog the reader down. Not all of the characters’ motivations are clear in the beginning (although you can probably guess if you try hard enough) so it does keep Annabelle and the readers on their toes until about the middle of the novel where the motives become clearer.
The characters really are the strength of The Rebel Trap, though, so even if the plot was totally awful (which it really isn’t) I would definitely recommend this book. They’re ambiguous enough to be real but not so ambiguous that you feel like their actions come from nowhere. It’s a delicate balance and Lance Erlick does it well. So if you’re into dystopias with flipped societies (women are superior in this one as opposed to men), then I would recommend The Rebel Trap to you.
I give this book 3.5/5 stars, rounded up to 4 stars for Amazon ratings purposes.
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B.RReviewed in France on October 31, 2020
4.0 out of 5 stars On poursuit l'aventure avec Belle.
Alors que pour le tome 1 j'avais eu du mal à entrer dans l'histoire, je trouvais les premiers chapitres ennuyeux, là pour le tome 2 on est pris par l'histoire du début à la fin.