Review: Implanted (Ascension #2) & Impervious (Ascension #1) by Heather Letto @hletto2 @XpressoReads

Implanted 

(Ascension #2)

by Heather Letto

Published June 8th 2015

Synopsis:

After a narrow escape from the city of Impervious, Fran’s heartaches for the ones she left behind. Pete. Could he, along with the remaining Rebels, have survived the Council’s violent oppression?

As Fran ponders the fate of her friends, an even more disturbing revelation drops into her world—the knowledge that she, along with anyone who had lived underground remains implanted with the sinister presence of the Council. A fate rendering her powerless to save. 

Yet one with pure blood, untouched by the Council’s defiling, lives among them. Could he be the new lifeline of hope? Is salvation of the city worth risking the life of this one-and-only? 

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My Review of Implanted (Ascension #2):

I received a free copy of the book from the author for my honest opinion.

Well Fran did it! She found the way out. Go Fran! She has learned that everything that she has been taught her whole life about the outside was totally wrong. She has found her parents and other mid-lifers and they are still alive and well. Her old mentor Chan is there and she is so glad to see him again. 

Fran is so happy to be out and being free of that place and the people who are in control. After everything settles down and Fran has gone through her detoxing she starts exploring her new world and learning all about life on the outside and how different it is than living underground. The water and the food taste so different and better than the food and water underground. Fran loves her freedom but she is so bored with nothing to do since she is still learning how everything is done in her new world. 

Even though Fran loves being on the outside and having her parents back she misses all her friends and brother back in Impervious. She also feels guilty because she is out and free and they are still stuck in there. So Fran, Chan and some of the other folks make a plan to that will hopefully get all the others out too. Their one and only way of saving the others comes in the form of this very hot guy called Retter or Ret. Ret was born on the outside and has never been underground in the city of Impervious. So therefor is not on their radar. Can Ret make it into Impervious without getting caught? Can he save the Rebels or the unaccountable? Or will Ret get caught by the Superiors? 

I loved reading both Impervious & Implanted and can’t wait for the next book to find out more about Fran, Pete, Ret and all of the other characters too. I loved the world that the author created in the Ascension series and can’t wait to get my hands on more of it.

If you love a good dystopian book then you are going to fall in love with both Impervious & Implanted. But I warn you that you just might need to get out that box of Kleenex because you are going to need them. The author makes you feel what Fran, Pete and Ret are all feeling and sometimes you will need those tissues because you are hurting for Fran and sometimes you may need them because you are laughing your head off because sometimes Fran can be very witty. Either way you are going to love this series. Fran is one strong young lady with a great big heart.

Impervious 

Ascension #1

by Heather Letto 

Published: March 9th 2015

Genres: Dystopia, Young Adult

Synopsis:

The residents of Impervious are the remnant, the survivors of the war of Annihilation. And though the city is chockfull of pleasures to tantalize and entertain, a beast lurks in the corners, haunting the residents with its presence. The Beast, a mysterious and terminal illness killed off most of Generations One, Two, and Three. And as Gen-Four prepares to take the stage, a provocative, yet questionable, new method to avoid an untimely death incites a cultural rage. But Fran lives counter-culture, off the grid in true rebel fashion. With a life far from opulent, she scurries through dark tunnels, searching for hot meals with Pete while ditching the holographic security team. To her, it's a healthy trade-off. Unaccountability means The Council can't steal her sliver of hope, a belief that she'll see The Epoch arrive before The Beast can pull her into its Fetid embrace.

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My Review of Impervious (Ascension #1):

I received a free copy of the book from the author for my honest opinion.

Fran is a young girl who lives in the city of Impervious, a city that was built several years ago, a city that was built underground. The world up above was destroyed by war and the only way to survive at the time was to live in this underground city. In this city of Impervious you have the West side and the East side. If you are lucky enough to live on the West side then you are higher up on the ladder than if you lived on the East side. 

People who live on the West side have more than the people who live on the East side. But of course both sides are controlled by the Superiors, the government. The Superiors have a list of each and every person in the city and are always keeping tabs on them. Everyone in the city are quiet happy to live their lives in this way. It is the only thing they know and they never stop and take a look around them to see what is going on right in front of their faces. 

But there is an exception with some of the people who live in this underground city. They are known as the unaccountable and are called the Rebels. Fran is one of these Rebels who sees straight through all the BS of the Superiors. And she unlike her brother Ted decides that she is not going to live her life with someone ruling her life. So she chooses to live in the ventilation system of the city. Fran and the other Rebels who live with her in the vents have to avoid security at all times. They have to be on their toes and have both eyes and hears open when they venture out of the vents to go into the city to find food and water.

Fran would probably be living with her parents if they were not dead. People who live in the city of Impervious only live to middle age and then they succumb to what is called the decline, an illness that takes over the mind. Once the decline falls upon a person they are taken away and never seen again and are at that time consider deceased. 

Fran has never been outside and hopes that one day she will find the way out and can go live on the outside and be free of the Superiors. Fran and her friend Pete think they have found the way out and they have a plan that will hopefully get them to the world outside, up above on the surface. 

I knew when I read the summary for Impervious I knew that I had read it. I love reading dystopian stories and just can’t seem to get enough. I have truly loved reading Impervious and can’t wait to read the next book, Implanted. I have loved reading about Fran, Pete and all of the other characters in the book. I would love to know more about a lot of the other characters in the book and know their thoughts on the whole world of Impervious and their thoughts on how and why the whole thing started. I would love to read things from Fran’s mentor Chan’s pov as well as the pov from the first gen people and their lives from the beginning until the end.

AUTHOR BIO:

I’m a book-writing, selfie-taking, latte-drinking, social media gal. I’m living a good life on the road as a full-fledged Bedouin (Well, except, my tent is actually a fully-equipped RV.) Me and my partner-in-crime (Benj) tend to hunker down wherever the skies are clear and the temps stay in the 70’s. We call ourselves Gypsy Nerds because we aimlessly wander the U.S. with glasses perched upon our noses and faces jammed into computer screens (for the first half the day... The second half of the day is typically devoted to playing because we’re also somewhat immature.)

Like most authors, the characters I create are my extended family.  And like most readers, when the story ends, I get a little sad. In real life, I have two handsome, hardworking, grown-up boys who know how to make their Mama proud! *Waves to Joey and Mike!*

The Ascension Series is my debut into the world of YA fiction.

I’m living what I love and loving what I live! 

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