Gearbreakers by Zoe Hana Mikuta is the first book in the Gearbreakers Series. It’s also an awesome young adult dystopian and science fiction novel that completely blew my mind.
Desperate times call for desperate measures… We needed our deities badly enough that we went beyond worshipping them to building them instead.
Godolia intends to rule the entire world one day and they’re using their gigantic mechanized weapons known as the Windups to do their dirty work. Destruction, terror and war are the norm for the people of the Badlands, who spend their lives either serving or fighting back against Godolia’s tyrannical regime.
Eris Shindanai is a Gearbreaker, she is a bold and fierce rebel who has perfected the art of taking down Windups with minimal effort. When a simple mission goes terribly wrong and she ends up in a Godolia prison, Eris meets Sona Steelcrest, a high-ranking Windup pilot. Sona represents everything Eris despises about Godolia, but here’s the catch—Sona has her own agenda: she has deliberately joined the Windup program so that she could tear Godolia apart from within.
Can Eris and Sona pull off their deadliest mission ever and end Godolia’s brutal reign once and for all or will their growing feelings for each other get in the way?
Pros And My Favourite Parts
I’m here for all the fast-paced, action-packed and riveting dystopian novels and Gearbreakers ticked all the right boxes for me. There’s no way that I could have stopped myself from binge reading this story because it features enormous mechanized weapons that were made in the images of deities, cybernetically enhanced soldiers/pilots, an oppressive regime and a fearless crew of Gearbreakers on the loose.
Sona and Eris were so easy to love and I truly enjoyed hopping into their world for a bit so that I could leave my day job behind and live vicariously through these awesome young women. Plus, I love the fact that this story was told from both of their points of view because I had unrestricted access to their backstories and interests as well as their conflicting thoughts and emotions.
Cons And Heads Up
This story contains graphic descriptions of physical assault, torture, violence, blood and gore and death of loved ones. As much as I enjoyed Gearbreakers, I can honestly admit that this book has a rocky beginning but the writing improved around the 20% mark and that’s when I got sucked into Eris and Sona’s world. I’m not a fan of cliffhangers and this story ended with a massive and thought-provoking one. Sigh… now I’ll have to count down the days until I can read the sequel.
The Conclusion
Gearbreakers is at the top of my favorite books to devour list because it has the whole enemies to lovers and slow-burn romance going on and there’s also the heart-tugging found family vibes between Sona and Eris’s badass crew. If you’ve read and enjoyed Love and Chaos and Crier’s War, then this is the perfect story for you!
Excerpt from Gearbreakers by Zoe Hana Mikuta
I snap my gaze away from Lucindo’s bloodied face toward someone who has emerged from a split in the Valkyrie’s ankle, hopping over the jagged edge and onto the calf. Dark eyes sweep across the room, over the dozens of freshly made mechas that stand like statues around the hangar, and the crowd of Pilots glaring at her with glowing eyes.
The girl straightens, the gleam of the fluorescent lights glazing over her short-cropped hair.
“Ah,” she says. “Shit.”
And then she takes off up the Valkyrie.
It is ridiculous.
I cannot look away.
I watch as a handful of Pilots leap onto the leg to pursue her, and I watch the corner of her lips tuck into a smirk.
And something strange happens—her hands twine with light, palms flaring with the delicate design of electricity, and then the light unspools, screaming away from her, clawing across the air and vanishing into the meat of a Pilot’s shoulder. He lets out a startled cry, staggers backward until his foot hits open air and he falls to the ground—where his arm shatters into a million irregular pieces.
I cock my head to the side, pulling my sight away from the shrieking Pilot and onto the girl again. I close my left eye.
Raven floods into her hair, and an even darker color into her eyes, lithe and lovely and ignited now, an incredibly steady fury in her expression—I have never seen a scowl quite like hers in my life. It ripples from her brow and pulls her lips back from her teeth, cascading past her face to seal her hands into fists and envelop her shoulders in a rigid but proud stance.
And when I meet her gaze, the one that somehow seems to simmer more viciously than the artificial light forced into mine, I forget myself and draw a breath.
I am not sure if it is just the fact that she had the ability to obliterate a Valkyrie singlehandedly, or the audacity to attack a Pilot in front of twenty of his comrades with a smile pricking her lips, or that she is the first Gearbreaker I have ever laid eyes on and therefore represents every particle of destruction that I wish to embody—but she is the most beautiful girl I have ever seen.
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Series
Gearbreakers
Godslayers
Bits and Bobs
ISBN number: 9781250269508
Publisher: Feiwel & Friends
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