Good if your dupe is enjoying his stay at Maxfield. Worse yet, those living in the village are connected to their dupes inside the school, allowing them to feel what their dupes feel. So basically it's like living on fraternity row. The food is bad, nothing ever stays clean and there are constant raids to keep everyone off balance. It would be kinda like me finding a town where I could apologize to the first girl I kissed for the excessive amounts of saliva.īut soon, Benson and Becky discover that The Village may actually be worse than being at the school. They are the original kids Maxfield used as templates for the 'dupes,' the cyborg duplicates back at the school.Īt first it's cool because Benson gets to apologize to kids he thought he'd killed. Turns out there's a whole village of familiar faces. Well, they were until Benson talks to Jane, his previously mentioned dance date, the one he last saw battered and dead on a morgue slab. Even so, things are looking up for the pair. Becky won't be dancing the Macarena anytime soon on account of a leg injury but mostly because no one does that sort of thing in public anymore. At least I never had to watch my Winter Wonderland dance date get beaten to death only to discover she was a robot all along.Īnd just when he thinks his luck is changing, he gets smacked in the face with a fistful of 'da hell you goin'?'Īt the beginning of Feedback, Benson (Bense to his friends, 'A**hole With a Taser' to his enemies) has just escaped from Maxfield Academy with fellow student Becky. I SAID, THERE IS A-nevermind.īut don't feel bad for me. Maybe it was because I took my fashion cues from old episodes of The Cosby Show. Look, I didn't go to many school dances when I was in high school. And while Benson struggles to figure out who, if anyone, can be trusted, he discovers that Maxfield Academy's plans are darker than anything he imagined-and they may be impossible to stop.

They are all pawns in the school's twisted experiment, held captive and controlled by an unseen force. People from Maxfield who Benson had seen die.

The worst was over.īut now he's trapped on the other side of the wall, in a different kind of prison. Very tasty, but not to be confused with fatbackīenson Fisher escaped from Maxfield Academy's deadly rules and brutal gangs. Today we review Feedback by Robison Wells, book two in the Variant series (our review of Variant can be found here). Welcome back to another review aimed squarely at those of you who love YA adaptations of Romeo and Juliet set in fin du siecle British boarding schools but need a palate cleanser every now and then where sh*t blows up and robot overlords get their heads hacked off with shovels.

Winter Wonders by Alexandra Shostak