The Tree of Rebels by Chantelle Atkins.

Okay guys, let’s jump into the next century and become the role of Lissie Turner, a 13 year old girl living in the UK and asking lots of questions about our society and what lies beyond the fence surrounding her town.

WOW! What the devil has gone on? Has our world gone mad? When did the Old World collapse and the new world begin? Can 13 year old Lissie Turner uncover the truth?

Okay guys, the concept is GOOD. There are many conflicts and wars around the world today and nobody knows how our future will unfold. Many, many lies have been told in the past, YES listen at the back Tony Blair, Iraq did NOT have Weapons of Mass Destruction in 2003.

So onto the Tree of Rebels. Ah, I thought this book was a DRAG, it rambled on and on, poor old Grandma Elizabeth on her death bed, telling the same old stories time and time again. Lissie Turner being a typical annoying teenage girl, sorry Louise but Chantelle Atkins hits the button with the naivety of modern teenage girls and their smartphone, grab a Coke from Grandad’s fridge attitudes.

I found the plot to The Tree of Rebels very SHALLOW and the handful of critical points or issues were repeatedly reviewed, time and time again. This book seemed to be going nowhere and not a lot happened. The concept of the fall of the Old World, the development of the new world with the possibility of false histories was NOT developed properly. It was just hints that lies may have been told. I hoped this novel would get better as the pages dragged on but it continued to be a POOR 2 star read all the way to the end. I was clearly not entertained by this book and found the whole reading experience a big disappointment. At 61 years of age, I know that I am not in the target group for a YA novel but if this is what teenagers choose to read, I feel reading will become nothing more than a passing fad for them. Still, I read The Tree of Rebels to the very end only to find nothing much happened and then to be told this sad, sorry tale would be continued in the next book. The ending was like watching 90 minutes of football to end with a no goal score draw. Yes, I could have done better things with my time, those reading hours lost forever wading through a bloated novel with very little content.

The Tree of Rebels was written in 2017 and is available as an Amazon Kindle eBook.