Jaime & Erin Review Tremble (Denazen #3)

Jaime’s Thoughts:

Tremble by Jus Accardo
My rating: 4 of 5 stars

Have you read book 1 and 2 yet? If not, don’t read this review… You’ve been warned!! Also – I may include some spoilers here – so don’t read on if you don’t want to know what’s happening!!

Dez isn’t having the best luck lately. Tremble picks up shortly after Toxic left us and Dez is struggling for a couple reasons. First, she’s a six and the drug she was given to enhance her abilities is now a deadly countdown to insanity and death. Second, she’s on Denazen’s hitlist because of it. And finally, her father is using Kale, the love of her life, against her and ultimately to kill her.

At the end of Toxic, Kale trades his life for hers, and Denazen did their worst to him. They erased Dez from his mind and replaced his memories with false ones and they gave him a new trial drug called Domination. Now he’s doing things the old Kale never would have considered… including kissing her half-sister.

The underground group is trying to save all of the six’s and so a lot of this book is finding them and hopefully getting there before those who want to get rid of them, and convincing them to return with them. Along the way, we find that the Denazen agents and Dez’s group are working from the same list hoping to get to the one person who’s blood may hold the cure for those on the termination list.

I will admit up front that I wasn’t as happy with book 2, (probably because of Jade) but book 3 came back with a bang. I sympathized with Dez much more in this book … the hurt of seeing him with Kiernan and the pain of knowing the relationship they shared, and Kale not having a single recollection and the anger and coldness he had toward her. It just about did me in.

Dez, while always a pretty strong character in the other books, really stepped it up in this book. She was prepared to fight for Kale and prove to him who she truly was even if it endangered her life. But she didn’t take his crap either. Even with the effects of the Supremacy project slowing her down, she pushes through it.

I was wondering what Denazen was going to do with Kale once they got their hands on him, and I wasn’t disappointed. I absolutely didn’t expect this. Kale has become someone else in the time they’ve been apart, and this new version isn’t who Dez would have fallen for, but she gets hints of her Kale throughout. Even though his memories have been taken, his body and mind deep down know Dez and so he fights to know the truth. I loved seeing this other side of Kale and I am interested in seeing how once more and more of his memories return, The Domination project will affect who he was and is.

Accardo fills this book with tons of action and suspense. Throwing in twists that I didn’t even see coming. I’m incredibly excited to see where she takes us in book 4.

Erin’s Thoughts:

Tremble by Jus Accardo

My rating: 4 of 5 stars

Tremble picks up shortly after Toxic leaves off. A lot happens in this book and it was great to get deeper into Denazen and not only how it all began but also what they have been up to. I will attempt this with no spoilers but be warned…it might be tough.

Kale is back with Denazen but Dez has no idea what has happened to him and although she has tried to dig up what she could on Kiernan that could help she has continued to come up empty handed. Because Alex and Jade (yes, her) have made it their mission to get Dez back to her old life, she finds herself at a nix rave. While there, something (or someone) catches her eye. In typical Dez fashion, she follows and happens to find that the person is Kiernan. After a bit of a confrontation, Dez happens to come face to face with Kale…but not the Kale she knows. As Alex joins the party it becomes very clear that something is off. Kale keeps referring to Kiernan as Roz and tells him Dez is Kiernan…the person responsible for his memory loss and accident.

With all of the stuff with Kale going on, Dez is also dealing with the side effects of the Supremacy project. She has begun to show signs of decline and everyone knows they need to find the cure soon. Through an informant Ginger has working at Denazen, they find that Cross has started a third Supremacy trial called Domination. Because of the success, Cross has declared the “old” model obsolete and has assigned Kale and Kiernan the task of eliminating all of the Supremacy subjects. At the same time, Dez and the Underground are hunting them down to try to bring them in to safety.

Again, Dez never changed from being the tough, funny, and sarcastic character despite the fact that her world is falling apart. Kale was different because of the circumstances but underneath it all he was still Kale. Dez’s relationship with Jade and Ginger seem somewhat strained but they all work together for the greater good. I guess that makes her a better person than me because I’m not sure I would be able to be in the same room with either of them after their actions in book two.

I enjoyed the third installment of the Denazen books and found myself unable to put the book down. Accardo does a wonderful job of moving the story forward, revealing some of the secrets, and keeping the characters true to who they are. I am looking forward to the next book to see how things go for Dez and Kale. I am also curious about how Alex’s life will be impacted and knowing how this book ends, am very interested in finding out more about the secret Cross revealed (no spoiler but for the record, I have my own theories on this one).

Thank you to Entangled Teen & Netgalley for the advance copy for an honest review.