Title: Uprising (Outliers Saga, 2)
Author: Kate L Mary
Genre: Adult Dystopian
Publisher: Twisted Press
Editor: Lori Whitwam
Publication Date: May 21st, 2018
Hosted by: Lady Amber’s PR
Blurb:
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 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.
Readers agree that Outliers is a “A brilliantly beautiful soul trembling story that has left me pining for more,” and that “Indra is the kind of dystopian protagonist I’m always searching for, but rarely find.”
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.
✯✯5 Windhi Strong Stars!!!✯✯
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!!!
Kate L. Mary is an award-winning author of New Adult and Young Adult fiction, ranging from Post-apocalyptic tales of the undead, to Speculative Fiction and Contemporary Romance. Her YA book, When We Were Human, was the 2015 Children's Moonbeam Book Awards Silver Medal Winner for Young Adult Fantasy/Sci-Fi Fiction, and the 2016 Readers' Favorite Gold Medal Winner for Young Adult Science Fiction.
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Asa and I stood in silence for a moment before he said, “You’ve started down a very dangerous path, Indra. You have to know that. You’ve been lucky so far, but it can’t last. Eventually, one of the men you attack will get the better of you, and then you’ll get hurt.”
Anger flared through me then, replacing the fear that had been swimming in me since Asa came upon me in the forest yesterday. He knew I had already been hurt, in so many ways. He had seen it with his own eyes, had told me that my pain had hurt him as well, yet he had the nerve to say this to me.
“Hurt?” I found myself spitting the word at him. “I am getting hurt every day, Asa. You have seen it. You have seen what these men have done to me, to the people I love, to my tribe, and to all the other Outliers working in the city. 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.”
We stared at one another for a moment, each of us lost in our own pain, in the pain that was both for ourselves and for our people. I could see the battle raging in him, the one that pulled him in two different directions. Between me, a person he had come to care about, and his people. It was unfair to ask him to do this thing for me, to make a choice that went against who he was, but I could not turn back now, just as he could not change the fact that he had been born a Fortis. Those were his people, but I was an Outlier, and we had been fooling ourselves for too long. Our worlds were too different to mix. We were too different.
“I understand the things that have been done to you,” he finally said. “I understand your anger. But I’m looking out for you, Indra.”
“I know, but maybe it is time I learned to look out for myself,” I replied.
“Are you saying you don’t want my help anymore?” he asked, surprise and doubt clouding his vision.
I exhaled as the truth settled over me like a heavy weight. There was no way I could walk away from his help, not if I wanted to keep Mira safe.
“You know I cannot do that,” I finally said, “but you must also know I cannot turn my back on my people either. I will leave it up to you to decide what you must do from here. If you cannot live with the things I have done, the things I plan to continue to do, I will understand.” I stepped back, and it seemed as if a large canyon had opened up between us. I waved down at myself when I said, “This is who I am, Asa. That will not change.”
His brown eyes swept over me, softening even more. “I know who you are, Indra, and even if I don’t agree with it, I can’t turn my back on you now.”
For once, his assurances gave me no comfort. Asa and I were involved in an alliance which defied logic, and one which could not last. Eventually, something would happen that would cause him to turn his back on me, and when that time came, I was unsure of what would become of us. Of what I would be forced to do to not only save myself, but my people.
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