Logic and fear control him, another natural response to a horror he witnessed when he was younger. There is always a plan, and you can count on Logan to come up with all sorts of scenarios and how to respond to them. His character starts off as that quiet nerdy boy who loves to play with metal and wires, and bit by bit we discover he’s extremely protective, fiercely loyal, an excellent fighter and huntsman, and quick on his feet.

Logan is really neat and clever! He’s easy to love. Beautifully written, expertly explored, and I thoroughly enjoyed it. Her reactions are very much like a soldier’s, a war victim’s, a person with PTSD. What started as anger and frustration and a need to defy authority turned into something realistically deeper and more meaningful. Every action screams rage, regret, and revenge - her desire to rid Baalboden of their dictator is justified. That’s the beauty of her character: she’s aware that she reacts without a plan, and it only heightens as more of her loved ones die. Rachel is impulsive to a fault, and she knows it. But this one, with the cover and fierce female protagonist and enticing first chapters, kept calling to me. I rolled my eyes at every dystopian or post-apocalyptic book I saw on the shelves because, really, it felt overdone. But as Rachel throws caution to the wind and acts impulsively, all of Logan’s plans crumble, and the two are sent out of Baalboden on a death mission into the Wastelands, where the Cursed One is bound to turn up at any moment. Logan, a techie inventor who always has a plan, is just as determined as Rachel to prove Jared Adams is alive. Rachel Adams - fierce, impulsive, strong, and daughter to the best courier and warrior of Baalboden - is filled with anger and grief when the brutal Commander declares her father dead and assigns her Protectorship to her father’s apprentice, Logan. Left with nothing but fierce belief in her father’s survival, Rachel decides to escape and find him herself.Īs Rachel and Logan battle their way through the Wasteland, stalked by a monster that can’t be killed and an army of assassins out for blood, they discover romance, heartbreak, and a truth that will incite a war decades in the making. When Rachel’s father fails to return from a courier mission and is declared dead, the city’s brutal Commander assigns Rachel a new Protector: her father’s apprentice, Logan–the boy she declared her love to and who turned her down two years before. While they bend like reeds to the will of their male Protectors, she uses hers for sparring practice. While the other girls in the walled city-state of Baalboden learn to sew and dance, Rachel Adams learns to track and hunt.

Genre: young adult, dystopian, post-apocalyptic, fantasy

Defiance by cj redwine