Reviewed by -- Bookaholic
Book Review of -- Mad
Science Institute by Sechin
Tower
My overall star rating
--- 4
About the book:
Sophia “Soap” Lazarcheck is a girl genius with a knack for making robots—and for making robots explode. After her talents earn her admission into a secretive university institute, she is swiftly drawn into a conspiracy more than a century in the making. Meanwhile and without her knowledge, her cousin Dean wages a two-fisted war of vengeance against a villainous genius and his unwashed minions. Separately, the cousins must pit themselves against murderous thugs, experimental weaponry, lizard monsters, and a nefarious doomsday device. When their paths finally meet up, they will need to risk everything to prevent a mysterious technology from bringing civilization to a sudden and very messy end.
Book creation ratings:
Overall total -- 23
out of a possible 30
-- Story &
characters -- 7
-- Cover & title
-- 7
-- Editing &
formatting -- 9
* based on a 1-10
scale with: 1-4, poor; 5-7, good; 8-10,
very good.*
The review --
This story starts off
with explosions and just gets better! The character, Soap, is a girl who never
met a robot she didn't like. In fact, she cannot breathe without modding,
morphing, inventing, and of course, blowing things up. While at the same time, she
is so clueless about making friends that she observes the popular girl and
makes up a checklist/template for how to have a conversation.
She finds herself at a
school for kid geniuses, which was founded by...guess who...Nikola Tesla!
(Which is why I read this book in the first place.) The plot revolves around an
Evil Professor and his nefarious plot for world domination. These kind of storylines
are about as deep as a comic book. You've got weird devices, a motorcycle gang,
and...oh yeah, some kind of underground dinosaur civilization. It didn't make
much sense, but who cares? The main appeal for me is the character Soap and her
wry observations about life. Oh, there is also an index of devices in the back,
where you might actually learn something.
Reader Recommendations
Genre -- Science
Fiction
Age recommendations --
12, Good for young adult and young-at-heart
Sex content rating -- There
are no sex scenes.
Violence rating -- There
is some violence with motorcycle gangs, but it is not graphic.
Links for the book:
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