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Book One in the Manipulated Series

2.5 Stars Lots of things happened in this book and the action scenes made for compelling reading. There was lots of chasing and running and escaping. However, I don't remember the names of any of the people who were being chased, or running, or escaping. This is because the story was more about the p......more

Very little character development or world building. Needed more descriptions of the outside world as well. Read like an amateur writer, but the idea itself was good and so I rate it a 3.......more

Human society has been riven in two. Following the flip in the Earth’s magnetic poles and subsequent irradiation of the surface, only those human whose genetic make-up permitted, could live safely above ground. They became the dominant society, and enslaved the ‘Dwellers’, who were forced to live be......more

This is book one in the Manipulated series and sees a small group of friends, Fin, Drake and Lacy, trying to survive in their underground world. They are dwellers, bred and living underground after the Earth’s poles were reversed, and their sole purpose is to mine for valuable minerals for those who......more

I am reviewing an Advance Reader Copy of this book. Modified by Harper North is the first in a new dystopian young adult series called Manipulated. The book is written in first-person and is from seventeen-year-old Fin's point-of-view. I didn't hate it, but I didn't love it either. Nothing grabbed my......more