Review: Defiance
Author: C.J. Redwine
Rating: 3/5
Genre: Fantasy, Historical-Fiction
Recommend To: Adventure and romance fans
Initially I was super excited about this book. Like crazy. OMG fantasy mixed in with romance type of crazy. And it was good. Just not as good as I was expecting. But it made me happy and the ending was huge so here we go.
The Plot: Hmm yeah cool stuff happening. Rachel, our main character, has just lost her courier father, he is presumed dead after not returning from a mission. Her guardianship (women have like no rights, they need an escort to even go for a walk, seriously) then transfers to her father’s apprentice, Logan, a man she once loved, now hates (not really). She decides to go find her father and the mysterious package he was carrying with or without Logan, and with the threat of the Commander (super evil) looming over her. Pretty straightforward premise I think. Just one thing. When and where the heck is this happening? There was noworldbuilding at all. None whatsoever. I didn’t know if this was after our modern civilization post-apocalypse, or a completely different world, or a kind of steampunky (they had tech) historical dystopian earth. It was bizarre. And it took away from the book.
The Characters:
Rachel Adams: Headstrong, feisty, red-haired Rachel was initially fun to read. She made a lot of stupid decisions along the way though. And then she just became plain scary. I guess in a slightly good way because I couldn’t stop reading about this crazy, revengeful girl-thing she becomes, but she really changes and not really in a good way. More like an ohmygod that’s chilling kind of way.
Logan McEntire: A nerd who can fight. He’s intelligent, especially with technology; he has a dark past so he can kick-butt. However, he is really overbearing. Blah at first, then kind of protective and endearing. I’m glad he is reminded women are his equals because at first he doesn’t tell Rachel anything as if she’s too stupid. Blah once more. But he’s cute I guess.
The Commander: Whoa, evil alert. Especially with the suppress all women agenda and kill them if they walk in the street alone. Seriously, Logan’s mother….so sad. That doesn’t count as a spoiler does it? Anyway, yeah. He was awesome to hate. I hated him a lot.
The Romance: Hmm now this was…what’s the word….hurried? It was also a little peculiar. A few years ago, Rachel swears her love to Logan….he rejects her. Okay, so now she hates him right? She is forced to live with him after her father dies, and all Logan does is nothing right? But no, now they must fall in love, this time with Logan falling back and being all “I will let nothing hurt you Rachel!” But seriously, it just happened too fast! I wanted more hate, more denial, more angst! It wasn’t satisfying…
Overall: There were goods and bads I guess. The creatures were interesting, the Commander and his regime were also fascinating. The premise drew me in easily and I enjoyed reading it because of the dual POV’s even without any background. It was fun seeing what was happening in both of their heads. But it wasn’t as awesome as I had hoped it would be and that’s my final judgment.
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