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There are several reasons for giving this book 3 stars. First of all the book is for Young Adults but being an adult, I found it boring and just ho hum. I have read other YA books and loved them, Jonathan Maberry's Rot & Ruin series, Jon Lewis' C.H.A.O.S. novels, to name a few. To me a good YA book can be read by both a younger person and an adult. Ingisnia is not this type of book. In some places, the dialog was very juvenile and silly.

Another thing that I found very annoying was the use of italicized words to show emphasis on a particular word. I can see an author italicizing words, but there are a lot in this book. On one page, I counted 7 italicized words. Really? If a book is written correctly, you don't need all those italicized words to get your meaning across.

For Tom Raines to be in such a super secret place as the Squire, it seems very unsecure as to the access to their computers or processors. A lot of the students and outside corporations could easily access the top secret inner workings of the computers. It just didn't make sense to me.

A lot of the characters were very shallow and easily swayed by outside interests and I know this is what the story if about, but it just seemed too easy with so much at stake.

Would I recommend this book to others? No, I don't think so unless it is a person who is about 11 or 12 years old as they might enjoy it, but for any one older, no.


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Vortex Insignia S J Kincaid Books Reviews

Again this series is a big hit with my almost 12 year old son!!! He is an avid reader gobbling up Harry Potter, Rick Riordan books, and Lemony Snicket series in 2nd and 3rd grade. He has enjoyed the Unwanted series, Sky Jumpers trilogy, and Jennifer Nielsen's trilogy of Rise of the Wolf, Mark of the Thief, etc... in 4th and 5th grade to mention a few.
So, in the end, it turns out that Insignia is a pretty cool book. It totally reminds me of Harry Potter--but with teens attending a futuristic military school in a science fiction setting instead of a castle to learn magic in a fantasy setting.

The story is about Tom--the boy whose got the special "it" the military is looking for, but who is raised by his deadbeet dad and will never have the opportunity to make anything of himself. His gaming skills are so good that he attracts the attention off the military, and he's recruited off to military school to fight in WWIII....but in war of the future, no one dies because the wars are fought in space over galactic real estate using space ships flown remotely by--yup, you guessed it--teenagers in military school.

Of course, there's MUCH more to the story than that, but I liked the surprises and unexpected bits--so I'll leave them foe you to discover. Ill just say that Tom gets much more than he bargined for when he joins military school. The writing shines during the dialogue between Tom and his new friends--their banter is laugh-out-loud funny. It seems a bit juvinile at times, and I felt frustrated because one page I thought the author was trying to make me cry and the next page she was trying to make me laugh. But in the end the story wrapped up nicely, and there is plenty of material for several more books....which Ill be keeping my eye out for.

Perfectly clean and suitable for all readers who are looking for some good fun science fiction!
For context, I'm a grown adult who ended up reading a lot of YA fiction that my wife brings home for my son. I've found that I like books by Kincaid much more than other books because of the quality writing and the thought-provoking premise. This one has very interesting ideas about personal identity and control and the melding of humans and technology. Also has well-written characters and interesting plot. Could not put the series down.
I love this book. It was highly recommended to me by one of my fifth-grade students. In fact, she repeatedly told me that I "had" to read this book. So, of course, I read it. And I am so glad I did.

In this world, war is fought in space and there are no casualties. The war is fought by teenagers with computers implanted in their brains. They interface directly with the ships to control them. But, the war is not between countries, exactly. Oh, there are alliances between countries, but the companies are really controlling (and profiting from) the war. Tom Raines goes from a nobody with a drunk, gambler for a father, to a highly prized asset of the government. And, for the first time, he belongs somewhere, he has friends.

I'm sure you can guess that having a computer implanted in your brain isn't all sunshine and rainbows. And Tom complicates it by being impulsive and maybe a bit crazy. But he is a teenage boy, so...

The story is exciting, with enough twists that you aren't exactly sure whom​ Tom should trust, but you root for him anyway.
There are several reasons for giving this book 3 stars. First of all the book is for Young Adults but being an adult, I found it boring and just ho hum. I have read other YA books and loved them, Jonathan Maberry's Rot & Ruin series, Jon Lewis' C.H.A.O.S. novels, to name a few. To me a good YA book can be read by both a younger person and an adult. Ingisnia is not this type of book. In some places, the dialog was very juvenile and silly.

Another thing that I found very annoying was the use of italicized words to show emphasis on a particular word. I can see an author italicizing words, but there are a lot in this book. On one page, I counted 7 italicized words. Really? If a book is written correctly, you don't need all those italicized words to get your meaning across.

For Tom Raines to be in such a super secret place as the Squire, it seems very unsecure as to the access to their computers or processors. A lot of the students and outside corporations could easily access the top secret inner workings of the computers. It just didn't make sense to me.

A lot of the characters were very shallow and easily swayed by outside interests and I know this is what the story if about, but it just seemed too easy with so much at stake.

Would I recommend this book to others? No, I don't think so unless it is a person who is about 11 or 12 years old as they might enjoy it, but for any one older, no.