SYLO (The SYLO Chronicles book #1 of 3) by D.J. MacHale
Paperback, 416 pages
Read: Nov. 23 and 25
Rating: 4/5
Genres: Young Adult, Dystopia, Adventure
Summery: THEY CAME FROM THE SKY
parachuting out of military helicopters to invade Tucker Pierce's idyllic hometown on Pemberwick Island, Maine.
They call themselves SYLO and they are a secret branch of the U.S. Navy. SYLO's commander, Captain Granger, informs Pemberwick residents that the island has been hit by a lethal virus and must be quarantined. Now Pemberwick is cut off from the outside world.
Tucker believes there's more to SYLO's story. He was on the sidelines when the high school running back dropped dead with no warning. He saw the bizarre midnight explosion over the ocean, and the mysterious singing aircraft that traveled like shadows through the night sky. He tasted the Ruby - and experienced the powers it gave him - for himself.
What all this means, SYLO isn't saying. Only Tucker holds the clues that can solve this deadly mystery.
LOOK TO THE SKY
because Pemberwick is only the first stop.
Review: This story starts off with the night of Marty Wiggins death. This story was hard for me to get into, but once I did it was an exciting story. The high school running backs death, and the bizarre midnight explosion, and singing aircraft, both happen in the first two chapters of the book and including those the first 74 pages were dull for me. when I got to page 75 (Chapter 8) is when things really picked up, SYLO has appeared. The first 74 pages felt dragging to me, and took me 2 hours just to get through, I couldn't get a feel for the characters, and I didn't feel like I knew them, that continued on through the whole story quite a bit, so for me this was more of a world and plot driven book instead of a character driven book, so if you don't like very little character background/information then you might want to keep this in mind if you decide to read this book. While it did drag in the beginning,mainly because there was very little background on the characters, once SYLO had started to show up the story evolved into a fun and exciting book. Sadly, I didn't really have a favorite character, although I did enjoy Tori and Quinn more than the others, I did enjoy them well enough, I just couldn't connect to any of them. I'm surprised that I liked this story as much as I did because normally the books that I end up really enjoying are more character driven than plot/world driven books. But I did really enjoy this book and definitely want to read the sequel (it left on a pretty big cliff hanger) the main reason being I want to read more about the plot and world. If you think the book sounds interesting and you end up finding that the beginning is dragging then I would suggest at least reading up to when SYLO show up and see if you start getting interested then, the thing to keep in mind is that this is not a character driven book.
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