Gearbreakers
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4.5 • 20 Ratings
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- $9.99
Publisher Description
Two girls on opposite sides of a war discover they're fighting for a common purpose—and falling for each other—in Zoe Hana Mikuta's high-octane dystopian debut Gearbreakers, perfect for fans of Pacific Rim, Pierce Brown's Red Rising Saga, and Marie Lu's Legend series.
We went past praying to deities and started to build them instead...
The shadow of Godolia's tyrannical rule is spreading, aided by their giant mechanized weapons known as Windups. War and oppression are everyday constants for the people of the Badlands, who live under the thumb of their cruel Godolia overlords.
Eris Shindanai is a Gearbreaker, a brash young rebel who specializes in taking down Windups from the inside. When one of her missions goes awry and she finds herself in a Godolia prison, Eris meets Sona Steelcrest, a cybernetically enhanced Windup pilot. At first Eris sees Sona as her mortal enemy, but Sona has a secret: She has intentionally infiltrated the Windup program to destroy Godolia from within.
As the clock ticks down to their deadliest mission yet, a direct attack to end Godolia's reign once and for all, Eris and Sona grow closer—as comrades, friends, and perhaps something more...
Praise for Gearbreakers:
"An absolute joyride ... Zoe Hana Mikuta is a talent to be in awe of." —Chloe Gong, New York Times-bestselling author of These Violent Delights
"Dark, fierce, thrilling, and tender, Gearbreakers will make your blood sing." —Nina Varela, author of Crier's War
PUBLISHERS WEEKLY
Told in alternating perspectives, Mikuta's fast-paced debut follows Sona Steelcrest, 17, who infiltrated the Windup Academy five years before the novel begins. Now, transformed into a cyborg Pilot of a mecha, Sona is determined to exact revenge against the system that destroyed her town. When she meets headstrong Eris Shindanai, "seventeen-ish," a captive Gearbreaker whose mission in life is to destroy the mechas, the duo escapes Godolia and makes it back to the Hollows, the Gearbreaker Headquarters. Frantic, bordering on chaotic, fight scenes deftly convey the world's reality, wherein second-guessing guarantees death. Sona and Eris are presumed South Korean through the use of familial words and references to Korean snacks, but the inclusion raises questions of geography and worldbuilding, since the past or present existence of Korea or other real-world nations is never determined or explained. Dialogue-based explanations feel slightly repetitive, and a last-minute reveal proves frustrating. Still, quippy exchanges among the inclusive cast bring a levity that balances their grim realities, and the cliffhanger ending of this action-packed series starter suggests that a deeper political conspiracy will unfold in the sequel. Ages 13–up.
