cover image The Rift Coda

The Rift Coda

Amy S. Foster. Harper Voyager, $24.99 (368p) ISBN 978-0-06-244323-6

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. (Oct.)