The world is dying.
Everyone feels it, and yet, no one knows.
They said that when
the end was near, a Bridge would come, and lead them out of the darkness of
that dying world.
Allie Taylor's life
was relatively normal...
Until Revik showed up.
And told her she was
that Bridge.
ROOK: Allie's War Episodes 1-4
"You are the
Bridge..."
Like most humans,
Allie spent her life distancing herself from Seers, a race of human-like beings
discovered on Earth in the early 1900s. Then she catches her boyfriend in the arms
of a hot band groupie, and Allie goes from San Francisco artist slacker to the
girl wearing the GPS anklet.
That's the least of her problems, though, compared to the shock of discovering who--and what--she really is.
Yanked out of her life by the mysterious Revik, Allie finds out that her blood may not be as "human" as she always thought. Through Revik she learns the truth: that Seers are nothing like she thought, that the world is nothing like it appears to be...and she has far more in common with Seers than she ever wanted to believe.
This book is so different from what I normally read, but
damn, I was glad I picked it up! I started reading it on a Friday night, and
could barely put it down long enough to sleep. The story has a metaphysical
bent, making it different than other urban fantasy books, almost giving it a
sci-fi feel. The psychics are not exactly human. The world-building is rich and
beautifully complicated. Must have taken the author forever to flesh it all
out.
I grew to really love Allie. Everything Allie knew about
herself and the world was shattered over night. But Allie handled it well, I
thought. You could see her mature into a woman over the course of the book.
I enjoyed reading about the relationship between Allie and
Revik. There is no insta-love here. Revik kind of treated her like crap by not
explaining things well to her and having too high of expectations for her. I struggled
between wanting to both strangle and kiss him at the same time. The chemistry
grows to a slow burn over the course of the four episodes. In fact, even by the
end of Rook, they still are not 100% solid. I love that because their
relationship feels more realistic to me. You can’t expect people to fall madly
in love while the world is crumbling around you.
Overall, I give Rook...
Plot - 4 1/2
bookmarks
Originality - 12
bookmarks (I don’t care if it is only a 1-5 scale. This was so inventive!)
Character development
- 5 bookmarks
Romance - 4
bookmarks (only because it is still growing)
Dream cast (otherwise
known as who I pictured while reading) - Goran Visnjic (Revik), Rooney Mara
(Allie), Olivia Munn (Cass), Dave Franco (Jon), Aaron Eckhart (President Caine)
