![]() It’s also the first in a trilogy, which means that any spoilery complaints I have now may be addressed in subsequent books. As a reader of the end, I knew what some of the twists and turns were going to be (and some I guessed), but the fun of the book is still in the way This Mortal Coil plays with, shifts, and dissects some of the tropes of dystopian YA. What seems obvious in one moment turns out to be a function of what you thought a YA novel of this sort would be planning. ![]() ![]() The fun of This Mortal Coil is that it’s often using your own expectations of the genre against you. ![]() Then a supersoldier named Cole arrives at Cat’s house with the news that her father has died and that Cole needs Cat’s help to finish creating the vaccine Lachlan started. (That’s a humorous This Mortal Coil joke for you.)Ĭatarina Agatta has spent the last two years fending for herself after the dangerous corporation Cartaxus showed up and took away her only companions: Lachlan Agatta the world’s leading gene-coder and may be the planet’s only hope for wiping out the deadly Hydra virus. But I’ll do my best to segregate the spoilers from the non-spoilers in a secure bunker where contamination won’t be possible. ![]() Welp, this is going to be hard to review without spoilers. ![]()
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