I stood by and let it happen for too long, but I will not do it anymore. I will not be the person who watches others get hurt and does nothing to stop it. Not anymore.Returning to Sovereign City after everything that was stolen from her is something Indra never thought she would do. Despite the scars she wears both inside and out, left there at the hands of the Sovereign and the Fortis, she is … the Fortis, she is determined to save her people from oppression, even if it means putting her own safety at risk. But it isn’t long before she once again finds her world shattering around her. As the dust settles, Indra manages to find strength among the ruins, and she sets out on a quest to unite the four Outlier tribes, hoping to take their enemies down once and for all.
Book two in in an exciting dystopian series, perfect for fans of The Hunger Games and The Handmaid’s Tale.
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There is a line in each of us. A point we can not allow to be crossed. It grows from the pain of experience. Sometimes taking time to understand someone else’s. The moment that point is reached. We either break or fight. Fighting is the only hope.
*I received a copy of this book in exchange for an honest review.*
Just when I thought Indra’s story couldn’t get any more intense and incredible, I read Uprising, and my mind was blown. Again. I’m thoroughly impressed with the world building, character development, and writing. Outliers was fantastic, and Uprising has just gotten better.
Indra is quickly becoming one of my favorite characters I have ever had the pleasure of reading. Her growth has been such and incredible and inspiring journey to read about. She has everything I look for in a lead.
The world building has been taken to a new level in Uprising. I love how we really get to see the culture and beliefs of each tribe. They are so unique and different, but they are also human. It’s such a cool reading experience to actually see well developed cultures intermingling with each other in one book.
Kate L. Mary’s writing is beautiful. There is never too much description- what we need to learn is beautifully interwoven into fantastic character dialogue. it’s fast paced from the start, and it never slows down.
This is another page turner. The story is intense, inspiring, beautiful, and the kind of edge-of-your-seat action that I love to read. I didn’t want the book to end, and now I’m sitting here, hoping the next book is not far away!
The Outlier series continues and we get to see how much Indra is changing. She’s now the Head of her own tribe and her struggle to unite the Outlier tribes as a group to fight against the evils of the Fortis and Sovereign. I am so loving this series and I just couldn’t put the book down. The story was so exciting and wondering what will happen next. I’m off to read the last book in the series and anticipating how the author will draw this saga to a close.
A fantastic series Indra has been taking to treatment that has been dealt her people for along time. Its time to take whats theres back. Will they be able to accomplish this. This is definitely a must read series. That keeps you captivated through the whole read. With twists and turns. The Narrator does a great job at bringing out the Characters as well as the Authors writing to where you can visually see the scenes. This series to me is up with the 100 and Divergent
Shauna Joesten
Uprising: A Post-Apocalyptic Dystopian Novel (The Outliers Saga, Book 2) by Kate L. Mary and narrated by Grace Sylvan is…WOW! What an exceptional follow up! For reals…If you enjoy books with darker themes, are empowering to women, strong female leads, or post-apocalyptic/dystopian worlds, you should be checking this series out asap.
What it’s about? After healing from her husbands death, Indra returns to her previous place of employment but something in her has changed. She is no longer the powerless woman she once was. Going back to work and encountering the Fortis and Sovereign sets off a flurry of emotions. No longer able to do nothing when her friend is being violated by Lysander, she takes action, resulting in changes for the Outlier tribes, Fortis, and Sovereign. Expect a lot of action and killing. We learn about the different Outlier tribes as Indra tries to unite them to rise up against the Fortis and Sovereign. Indra creates and becomes the leader of a new tribe of women. A romantic relationship develops. How to deal with the threats in the wastelands and from fellow tribal members? Who lives in the mirrors that make the energy for the Sovereign? How to handle the misogynistic tribe? What is it that’s stopping the tribes from entering Sovereign City? What happened to the missing tribal members? There should be no surprise that the book ends in a cliffhanger as there are three books in the series, but I feel I need to say this because there’s always someone who complains.
If you are looking for an empowering book, this is it. Make no mistake, it’s a book that deals with dark subjects. Kate’s writing makes you feel emotions and creates bad guys so bad that you can’t help but hate.
The narrator, Grace Sylvan, once again did a great job. As I said in the first book review, it is clear she is the perfect fit for this series. I would check out other books by her.
Overall I cannot recommend this series enough. I feel it’s Kate’s best work to date. I went straight from book one to book two despite other life obligations I should have been doing. If you enjoy books with darker themes, books that are empowering to women, or post-apocalyptic/dystopian worlds, this is the series for you. If you are new to Kate’s books, you best get on the Kate bandwagon quick!
Parental guidance/trigger warnings: revenge, remembering past sexual assaults and coming face to face with abuser, attempted rape, slaves, sex on wedding night and one other time (not in graphic detail), tattooing, killing of men via arrows, death from other weapons, one tribe is extremely sexist and believes women need men to survive (treats women like they are the bottom of the barrel- no eye contact/no talking or addressing women, comments about how they are inferior and things along those lines), hitting of a woman by a man, cruel treatment of the disabled by the Sovereign, getting rid of babies who are born with what some might consider a disability (death or sent to live elsewhere), and possibly similar scenarios that I’m forgetting. I do not recall any swearing. This is a book that contains dark/potentially triggering subjects.
*I was given a free review copy of the audiobook at my request and have voluntarily left this review. Thank you for allowing me to listen and review the book!
4.5 stars
A gripping and exciting follow up to Outliers
Uprising is the second instalment of the Outliers saga, a ‘dystopian future’ story of oppression and good triumphing (hopefully) over evil. I enjoyed the first book in the series and wanted to see how the trials and torments inflicted on Indra, in that book, led her to grow and change as a person. I wasn’t sure how the story would continue but was pleasantly surprised at the direction it took.
Indra is a Winta, one of the four tribe of Outliers, born to serve the Sovereign and live in fear of the Fortis. However having been whipped to within an inch of her life, after watching the beheading of her husband Bodhi, Indra is not only no longer in fear of them but is determined to rain vengeance down on them both. However things are complicated by Asa, a Fortis who doesn’t live to humiliate and subdue the Outliers. Can Indra free her people or will she only bring them and herself further pain and loss?
Indra felt quite young in the first book, almost NA, so I was surprised to discover she was in her mid twenties. However she has definitely grown and matured and came across as a strong and determined character. The book is written third person, entirely from her perspective but in a way that still allows us to learn and understand the other main characters in the book.
I loved getting to know more about Asa and the other tribes, as well as the Untouchables. The book held some very surprising plot twists and whilst it doesn’t end in a traditional cliffhanger, it does leave me on tenterhooks and wondering where this story can possibly go now.
The book really held my attention from the start and I enjoyed the story from start to finish. Whilst it makes clear that two of the characters engage in a sexual relationship, this isn’t described and I feel the book could be enjoyed by older teens as well as adults. This is a book I am happy to recommend to any who enjoy well written stories set in dystopian futures/ alternate worlds. I wouldn’t describe it as either fantasy or sci-fi but it does seem to slot within that general genre.
Indra decides to return to work in Sovereign City and once inside her plans are to extract revenge for the heartache and pain she suffered by their hands. I kind of think or wonder if she is not returning so that she could lay eyes once again on the place and the people who took so much from her so that she could face the pain and heartache; she could heal faster; be stronger and could lead the uprising against the Fortis and Sovereign City to save her people from being their slaves.
Indra has not been inside the city long before disaster strikes and leaves her and her friend Mira running for their lives. In order not to be caught on the way home Indra and Mira decide to go through the wastelands to reach home. Upon their arrival they find that the home they once is knew is gone. Indra flees her home to the other Outlier tribes in hope of bringing the tribes together to fight the Fortis and Sovereign City.
I love this world that Kate has created for The Outliers. I love the Outliers, the people who are a part of this tribe. I love their names and that some of were named after some of the characters on The 100.
This has been an amazing journey one which I can’t wait to continue. I was so excited to read Uprising that once I had it in my hands I couldn’t put it down but as you know life does get in the way at times but I did not want to lay it down and when I did Indra, Asa, Mira, Emori, Roan and all the others were running around in the back of my mind and I couldn’t wait to finish reading what they had to tell me but at the same time I didn’t want to see Uprising come to an end.
Oh and by the way I am #TeamAsa. I have been rooting for Asa since the beginning. I wanted so much to see Indra with Asa but I do understand that she had to have her time with Bodhi in order to be the person she is now. Everything she went through all the heartache and pain had to be experienced so she could be the person to stand up and fight for her people. If she had not experienced these things then her life could have taken a complete different direction and she might not be the person to help her people rising up against the Sovereign.
I would recommend uprising to all fans of dystopia and post-apocalyptic. Pick up your copy of The Outliers and Uprising today to start your journey through this incredible world.
5 Windhi Strong Stars!!!
This is one series I’d love love to see on the big screen!!! I’m in love with Kate L. Mary’s writing. I’d been waiting to get Uprising since finishing Outliers and man Kate didn’t disappoint me at all.
We pick up right where we left off previously with Indra agreeing to go back to work at Saffron’s House. Indra’s not the same quiet, timid person she was all those months ago. No, she was beaten almost to death, been abused by the son of the household and watched her husband Bodhi murdered at the hands of the Sovereign.
Indra doesn’t last long back at Saffron’s. When Mira’s attacked Indra doesn’t standby like they’ve always done. Instead she stands up and takes matters in her own hands. Indra and Mira are now on the run to get out of Sovereign City before they’re caught or they’ll loose their lives.
By the time they get back to their home their tribe was beaten, murdered and burned to the ground. Luckily her sister remembers Indra’s warning and got as many women and children out as possible. Indra takes them to Bodhi’s cave where they must start over.
Indra’s the backbone to the ladies left of their tribe. She shows them how to start surviving on their own without the men doing all the hunting, fishing and fighting themselves. They change their names from Winta to Windhi (in honor of her late husband Bodhi).
Indra’s a born leader. Bodhi saw it and it was why he showed her the things he did before his death. Indra is voted as the new tribe leader to her group. Indra wants to Sovereign and Fortis to pay for the way they’ve treated her tribe and the other fellow Outlier tribes. Indra knows if all four Outlier tribes come together they can take out the other two groups.
Indra continues her hunting for food. And, along the way she started taking out the Fortis hunters she comes across in the woods. Indra also goes to the other Outlier tribes to talk about them teaming up together to take out the Fortis first and then go after the Sovereign. There are four large Outlier tribes but no two are the same. They’ve all got their own rules, traditions and ways of doing things. I loved the way Kate wrote them so differently but still able to work together to takeout a common enemy.
If Indra wasn’t dealing with enough everyday there’s more. Asa, the Fortis guard who protected her day in and day out. Asa always seemed to continue popping up into Indra’s life. Indra knew being around Asa and this friendship slash more then friends relationship they had going on was going to be an issue with some of her fellow Windhi tribe as well as the other Outliers tribes. Luckily she has Mira in her corner to give her backup that Asa is one of the few Fortis that’s a good honest man.
Everybody must decide what’s to come next. They must get into the Sovereign City and rescue the Outliers who’re being kept as the Sovereign’s slaves and takeout the Fortis then the Sovereign. But, things are never ever as easy as they seem.
No joke Kate L. Mary has started an incredible series. There’s so many ways the storyline can go from here. One person can go straight and the other can twist and everything can change. I’m SO looking forward to where Kate’s going to bring us next!!!
Uprising is the second book in The Outliers series. I thought the first book was amazing, but this one is even better! We reunite with Indra as she starts back at work in the Sovereign city. She feels different now, with the strength that Bodhi encouraged. She is not prepared to go back to being meek and mild, as she was before. Asa is still working for the Sovereign.
This book has so much packed into it, it’s quite unbelievable. With action, hope, and heartbreak, there is plenty to keep you turning the pages. There are plenty of twists and turns as Indra works to bring the Outlier tribes together, to beat the Fortis and Sovereign. I thoroughly enjoyed reading about how the women of the Winta tribe worked together, although you can see the cracks in the seams. I can’t wait to see where this goes next.
It does end on one helluva cliffhanger, so fair warning! This is a book where I knew the ending was coming, and it couldn’t come quick enough, but I also wanted it to never stop!
This is an excellent addition to the series, and is still rich in detail, with wonderful characters, and an intriguing and gripping storyline. Absolutely recommended by me. Bring on the next!!!
* A copy of this book was provided to me with no requirements for a review. I voluntarily read this book, and my comments here are my honest opinion. *
Merissa
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If you thought the first book in this series, Outliers, was exciting, be prepared to be wowed! I just could not predict where this was going. And every time, I just about had it figured out–WHAM–something different happened. There were lots of unpredictable and unexpected moments in the book. The ending was definitely a cliffhanger but that is to be expected with a series. And it’ll give me something to do while waiting for the next book…trying to figure out where Kate L Mary will take us at this point.
I liked this book better than the first book because this one isn’t anywhere near as depressing as the first one. Despite the initial stupid decision to return to work for the Sovereigns without a plan to overthrow them, Indra is a strong character, who uses her brains to rise up. Indra and many of the other Outliers are so tired of the Fortis and the Sovereigns treating them like dirt, so with Indra leading the charge, they try to take them down. I did get a bit bored with all of the Outlier politics, but it was interesting to meet some of the other Outlier groups. Also, I liked the conflict for Indra and her feelings for Fortis, Asa. Overall, an entertaining, well-written story. I’m looking forward to reading the finale.