Name: Jeremy Cote's review of Arena One: Slaverunners (Book #1 of the Survival Trilogy) by Morgan Rice
Item: Arena One: Slaverunners (Book #1 of the Survival Trilogy)
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Author: Jeremy Cote

Morgan Rice

From Morgan Rice, #1 Bestselling author of THE VAMPIRE JOURNALS, comes the first book in a new trilogy of dystopian fiction. New York. 2120. American has been decimated, wiped out from the second Civil War. In this post-apocalyptic world, survivors are far and few between. And most of those who do survive are members of the violent gangs, predators who live in the big cities. They patrol the countryside looking for slaves, for fresh victims to bring back into the city for their favorite death sport: Arena One. The death stadium where opponents are made to fight to the death, in the most barbaric of ways. There is only one rule to the arena: no one survives. Ever. Deep in the wilderness, high up in the Catskill Mountains, 17 year old Brooke Moore manages to survive, hiding out with her younger sister, Bree. They are careful to avoid the gangs of slaverunners who patrol the countryside. But one day, Brooke is not as careful as she can be, and Bree is captured. The slaverunners take her away, heading to the city, and to what will be a certain death. Brooke, a Marine’s daughter, was raised to be tough, to never back down from a fight. When her sister is taken, Brooke mobilizes, uses everything at her disposal to chase down the slaverunners and get her sister back. Along the way she runs into Ben, 17, another survivor like her, whose brother was taken. Together, they team up on their rescue mission. What follows is a post-apocalyptic, action-packed thriller, as the two of them pursue the slaverunners on the most dangerous ride of their lives, following them deep into the heart of New York. Along the way, if they are to survive, they will have to make some of the hardest choices and sacrifices of their lives, encountering obstacles neither of them had expected—including their unexpected feelings for each other. Will they rescue their siblings? Will they make it back? And will they, themselves, have to fight in the arena? ARENA ONE is Book #1 in the Survival Trilogy, and is 85,000 words.

Arena One: Slaverunners (Book #1 of the Survival Trilogy)

Kathleen Boyle

Jeremy Cote

** spoiler alert **
           I have mixed feelings about the book. It was definitely packed with action and made you keep on turning the page to read it, but the book was also full of tropes of YA that I couldn't help but notice. Perhaps it's because I've read many other books that I noticed these similarities, but I found it a bit annoying.

The other thing is that there were a *ton* of events in the book that I found were unrealistic. I don't know how many of the actual physical motions are possible, but my guess would be not many. It just seemed extraordinary how much damage the characters seemed to be capable of withstanding. This was definitely distracting while I read.

I don't know if I will read the other books in the series because of this, but this book did take you along for quite a ride. I wish I had more good things to say about it.

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Arena One: Slaverunners (Book #1 of the Survival Trilogy) by Morgan Rice

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