The Rift Coda

August 13, 2018
The tedious final book of the Rift Uprising trilogy (after The Rift Frequency) stars young supersoldiers Levi, Ezra, and Ryn, who are recruiting allies to defeat the secretive group, the Roones, who created them. The teens begin their mission by forming a tenuous alliance with an angelic species called the Faida, who engage with them in a council of equals despite their reluctance to burden children with planning an insurrection. There follows a tediously realistic amount of studying, talking, strategizing, and holding meetings, while the inevitable love triangle churns among the three main characters. If not for the sheer amount of detailed bureaucracy, this might make a decent young adult series, but the relative immaturity of the characters and predictable plot and conflict make this a difficult sell for adult readers. Agent: Yfat Reiss Gendell, Foundry Literary + Media.

September 15, 2018

Ryn Whittaker was raised to be a Citadel, a genetically enhanced secret soldier tasked with ensuring that the rifts that connect her Earth to the other versions through the Multiverse do not cause trouble for her world. When she meets Ezra Massad, a refugee from another Earth, Ryn begins to question why she was made into a Citadel. These questions lead Ryn, Ezra, and her teammate Levi into the Multiverse, where they learn that a conspiracy by altered Roones, the aliens who created the Citadels on Ryn's Earth and others, threatens everything and everyone Ryn cares about. Gathering allies will be daunting, but Ryn, made to be a soldier, now finds herself transforming into a leader. VERDICT With myriad characters and worlds, Foster's military sf series finale (after The Rift Frequency) is a superpowered, coming-of-age story that will grab both adult and YA readers.--Kristi Chadwick, Massachusetts Lib. Syst., Northampton

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