Title: Rebel
Genius (Geniuses #1)
Author:
Michael
Dante DiMartino
Genre:
Fiction,
Middle Grade, Fantasy
Publisher:
Roaring
Brook Press
Publishing
date: October 4th 2016
Pages:
384
Rating
★★★☆☆
Hello! Today I’m reviewing a
book I was really excited about, Rebel Genius by Michael Dante DiMartino. The
author is the co-creator of Avatar, the Legend of Aang and the Legend of Korra,
I love both shows, so I was really interested in seeing what kind of story this
would be.
The
story takes place in a Renaissance inspired world where there is power in art,
all forms of art
A Genius projecting sacred geometry. |
Luckily,
he finds safety in a secret studio where young artists and their Geniuses train
in sacred geometry to channel their creative energies as weapons. But when a
murderous artist goes after the three Sacred Tools--objects that would allow him
to destroy the world and everyone in his path--Giacomo and his friends must
risk their lives to stop him.
I
really, really expected to love this book, and I tried to love it, but it just
didn’t work for me, or it wasn’t what I was expecting.
The
book premise is interesting and the setting is pretty unique. I think the
strongest point of the whole book was the magic system; it was something I
would never imagine, magic through geometrical shapes. I liked the general idea
behind the book, but the execution was a bit poor in some aspects.
The
beginning of the book is extremely slow and a big info dump through a mentor
explaining Giacomo how the sacred geometry works. I was really bored and did
not care about the characters at all until around page 150, where the real
story and adventure begin.
Giacomo |
The
biggest weakness of the book was its characters. The main reason I love Avatar
is for its well developed and fleshed out characters, but in this book the characters
are so flat and boring it was hard to identify who was who sometimes. I didn’t
like Giacomo as a protagonist, nor any of the “good guys,” for some reason I
felt the most interesting characters where the bad guys.
Giacomo
is a case of a “chosen one,” a special and unique boy, the only one who can
save the world for some reason, even if he just started his training. Still,
there was a big plot twist about him at the end that I definitely wasn’t
expecting it.
The
book is enjoyable but slow and too many explanations of the magic system and
the world are overwhelming. The book has illustrations that really help the
reader to understand the explanations.
I
recommend this if you are looking for a book with an original and creative
magic system, and I would say this is one of those middle grade books that are
not for everyone but for the target audience.
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