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The Tower is a great sequel to The Hybrid by E.K. Frances. This book finds Seb still struggling with his true powers and his guilt at being a ‘killer’. As he awaits execution for his crimes, he continues to hone his skills; exercising and reading to grow strong in body and mind. He also needs to figure out his place in their world before his ‘dark’ destiny is fulfilled. EK. Frances uses fantastic writing to keep the reader guessing about Seb’s true nature. Who Seb can trust at the Agency and who
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Five stars... although...
There was a single distracting writerly ‘tic’ in this book: a self-reporting of actions by the narrator. “I did this/I did that.”
When I see this tendency among my friends, I encourage them to push through it. To rephrase their prose in a less self-reflective way. As a reader, I want to live vicariously through the first-person narrator--only to find myself constantly observing my own actions. It creates a strange story-camera effect. I sit. I stand. I swallow. (It’s dist ...more
There was a single distracting writerly ‘tic’ in this book: a self-reporting of actions by the narrator. “I did this/I did that.”
When I see this tendency among my friends, I encourage them to push through it. To rephrase their prose in a less self-reflective way. As a reader, I want to live vicariously through the first-person narrator--only to find myself constantly observing my own actions. It creates a strange story-camera effect. I sit. I stand. I swallow. (It’s dist ...more
The Tower is an entertaining follow-up to Frances' previous work, The Hybrid. The story centers on Seb, who grapples with his latent abilities and the burden of being labeled a 'killer.' Seb's a little too trusting, and gets burned a few times as the narrative progress. Seb earns some points as a protagonist for dedicating himself to refining his skills through study and rigorous training while awaiting execution (nothing's just handed to him.) As he "levels up" his powers, Seb uncovers surprisi
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E.K. Frances creatively crafts the next installment of the incredible Hybrid series with the next book in the trilogy, The Tower. As good and as dark, if not more so, than the first book.
The story continues to follow the evolution of the main character, Sebastian, as he is making new, but uneasy alliances and life altering discoveries about himself and his history. All as his world is being torn apart amidst constantly shifting allegiances, subterfuges. and attempts to end him. These would driv ...more
The story continues to follow the evolution of the main character, Sebastian, as he is making new, but uneasy alliances and life altering discoveries about himself and his history. All as his world is being torn apart amidst constantly shifting allegiances, subterfuges. and attempts to end him. These would driv ...more
May 04, 2023
Peter Boyde
marked it as to-read
