ROBOT. APOCALYPSE.

Now that you have that concept in your head, let me ask you which of the below pictures best matches the image you have in your head upon thinking of scary, menacing robots in a robot apocalypse:

Picture A:



Or Picture B:



If the image to appear in your head at my mention of a robot apocalypse even slightly resembled Picture A, then run away from Revolution 19. (But don't run too fast, because these robots roll, and you want to give them a slight chance, right?) Now, if, when I More...

There were actually tears in my eyes after I finished this, and not because Revolution 19 is particularly emotional or poignant. Nope, I couldn't stop laughing at how awful this train wreck is - it's exactly what I'd imagine a Michael Bay book would be like, if he ever wrote one - so let's just say, between this and Dark Eyes, the majority of Writers Guild of America members should stick to their day jobs and leave the book writing to people who know the difference between screenplay and prose.

I More...

I feel like I'm in a slump right now. I've been craving some sci-fi, but they last two books have done less than impress me. What is going on? What do I have to do, start lowering my standards? Is it too hard to ask for a dynamic cast of characters, action, drama, mystery and romance?! Oh...wait. Didn't this book promise me that? Huh. Well, let's get one thing out the way right now. That blurb is misleading.

But before we get into all that, I want to take you on a flashback. Yes, a flashback. Bac More...

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Revolution 19 wasn’t exactly anything new but it does do some things a little differently and it was enjoyable. The best way to describe it is The Chronicles of Narnia meets The Terminator, a bizarre mixture but one that kind of works.

Revolution 19 was bizarre for other reasons too. It seemed that for every good point there was also a negative to counteract that and vice a versa. For example, I really loved that this was a book about 3 siblings who were all More...

Originally posted on www.yareads.com, Reviewed by Nichole.

Twenty years ago, the robots designed to fight our wars abandoned the battlefields. Then they turned their weapons on us.

Only a few escaped the robot revolution of 2071. Kevin, Nick, and Cass are lucky —they live with their parents in a secret human community in the woods. Then their village is detected and wiped out. Hopeful that other survivors have been captured by bots, the teens risk everything to save the only people they have left More...

Despite earlier reviews I read about this book, I liked it.

The basic storyline: Bots now control the cities and everyone in it. Citizens are micro-chipped and are trackable at all times. "Freeman's" still exist outside the cities in "Freeposts"...that is until the Bots either capture or kill them.

Cass, Nick, Kevin and their parents are living in one such Freepost until one day the Bots come. The children manage to escape, but their parents are captured. They are taken to the nearest city for re- More...

closer to 4 star than 3. Review coming closer to release date.

updated:

When I started Revolution 19, I was ready to be blown away. The blurb really sold the concept of this book to me. Come on when you know that Robots are taking over and you are the little person now, it has to be good. Welllllll, it was good, it just didn't blow my mind like I had thought it would. The story was simple and felt a little like I have read it before. I think if the author would have added one more unique part th More...

Revolution 19 is one of those books that the plot is not out of this world and unique, but it flows nicely, has great characters, and keeps you interested until the very last page. It has enough action in every chapter to keep you turning the pages, and tons of mystery and suspense. The robots didn’t scare me, though, nor did I feel that it was really that hard to defeat the robots.

I guess I just wasn’t sold on the whole “Robots took over the world” concept. This is what I mean by the plot not b More...

Oh boy. Where to start? This was a pretty big disappointment me for me, guys. In pretty much all areas. If you know me, you'll know that not only am I a huge "Terminator" fan, I'm also a huge "Homeland" fan. And considering this was concocted by not only the author and the creator of "Homeland", it makes this a double disappointment. Yet, somehow, I'm not surprised this is a packaged TV deal, and I can easily see it doing well in a YA TV-aimed market. However, what I found inside was not only a More...

So this was a 2.5 star novel possibly a 3, I like some aspects but it really didn't live up to my expectations.
Let's start with the pros:
- robots taking over the world because humankind is destroying itself? Interesting...
- Cass', Kevin's, and Lexi's characters were intriguing and like able as well as Nicks at some points.
- The cities and the multiple sides of them, in some aspects they are good and some they are bad.
- The idea that the robots number the revolutions and the idea of naming the b More...

A whirlwind of a story, Revolution 19 leaves you feeling exhilarated and wondering what will happen next to the young group.

That is, until you actually think critically whatsoever about the story itself and the details that are presented. You see, Revolution 19 as a preteen/older-kids book works wonderfully. There isn’t a bunch of information that they won’t understand, the book is fast paced with plenty of action to keep the reader’s attention which is vital with the younger generation’s seemin More...

this book totally did not live up to it's hype. it had such a great premise, but the story just didn't pull through.
set in a dystopian future where robots have revolted against humans and taken over. pockets of freemen live in the wild in primitive villages reminiscent of the hunter/gatherer societies. robots have "seeded" the for rests with small tracker type robots (why I have no idea) to hunt out the primitive villages. people are captured and sent to be re-educated to be acclimated into the More...

Robots. I can't recall the last book I read about robots, so this is was a fairly fresh read for me. Think about it, though, what would happen if humans developed robots to fight their wars? It's an interesting concept, although the traditional battlefield is becoming less and less. And, what if our war-fighting robots suddenly turned on us? And enslaved us?

That's pretty much what happens before the start of Revolution 19. Some humans have escaped and have been living in outposts in the twenty y More...

Oh dear. This book was baaaaaaad. Like baaad, baaaaad. Umm where to start?

Well for one thing, the blurb or the discription is totally misleading. I think the charachters could have all disappeared and I wouldn't have given a damn, I didn't bond or feel anything for them. They weren't developed enough. C'mon girls we all have book boyfriends or those charachters in books that were all addicted to and go mad when something happens to them. That's when you know the writing good!

The plot bored me More...

** Courtesy of guest reviewer Skylar Baker, my 14 year-old daughter **

It took me approximately 10 hours in all to finish REVOLUTION 19, a stunning feat for me considering the “busy” life I uphold. This book gives a wonderful new twist on the whole “robots overthrowing the human race” genre. After I read the first two pages, I was completely hooked. REVOLUTION 19 left me on the edge of my seat from the minute I picked it up and can simply be described as “an explosion on paper.”

REVOLUTION 19 puts More...

I received a preview of this book through goodreads and read it in about 2 days. The concept isn't new: I, Robot, Terminator, any post-apocalyptic YA right now... Though the characters were decent.
I feel like another round of editing might make this a decent read for the tween crowd. Anyone older would start to wonder why chipped individuals aren't monitored for rebellious talk (a la 1984) or why robots are only sentient in clunky, large semi-humanoid shapes years after the robots have taken ove More...

I saw "Revolution 19" by Gregg Rosenblum on a "best" list and decided to give it a go. It is another entry into the young adult dystopian genre. It is somewhat unique, however, in that it includes robots of the future. "Best" list though? No way. The only reason that I give it a three star rating is that it think it might appeal to reluctant male readers because it is a fast, easy read.

The gruesome Epilogue to "Revolution 19" is sure to grab readers' attention. We see a group of humans stopped b More...

Why I Should Have Liked This Book:
-ROBOT. APOCALYPSE.
- "[...]dynamic cast of characters, [...] action, drama, mystery, and romance."

Why I Didn't Like This Book:
-the robots
-characters that were decidedly not dynamic
-the writing
-action? drama? mystery?? ROMANCE?? Was I reading the same book?

Robots
I was expecting epic Terminator robots. Or at least things that y'know chase people around and blast them with lasers. Instead we get 8-ft rectangular things that roll whose only facial features are clear More...

This isn’t the first book I’ve read about a robot apocalypse (Robopocalypse), but I love that idea, so I was really looking forward to picking this up from the library.

Here is the Kobo summary:

Twenty years ago, the robots designed to fight our wars abandoned the battlefields. Then they turned their weapons on us.

Headstrong seventeen-year-old Nick has spent his whole life in a community in the wilderness, hiding out from the robots that have enslaved mankind. But when the bots discover the comm More...

My Rating: 2.0


I heard so many bad things about Revolution 19 before I even read it, so I put the book into my to-avoid pile even though the cover of the book is completely gorgeous. However, I watched the book trailer and was sucked right in, so I decided to give the book a try. I knew what I was getting myself into after seeing all the bad reviews, but still, I'm disappointed with Revolution 19.

First a warning: the book itself and the book trailer are two very different things. The book trail More...

Didn't like it, this turned out to be as typical and predictable as I thought (How many books and movies have you encountered about robots taking power over mankind?) of it to be. 2 stars only because I could at least finish it.

Revolution 19 - the name itself isn't proper, since there was really no revolution, only some killing and capturing of people who are not willing to become slaves of the powered army...the bots.

The story starts off at the jungle, the occupants known as the freemen, where More...

AMAZEBOTS!

What I loved: The synopsis was intriguing and I found myself sucked in from the prologue, THE PROLOGUE! It's not often that a book simultaneously cracks me up and scares the crap out of me at the same time but this one did!

Nick, Cass and Kevin are all strong characters willing to risk their lives to rescue their parents and keep each other safe in the process. Their journey takes them from a peaceful life in the woods into a city run by robots where resistance means "re-education" or w More...

I don't usually read a lot of books about robots so I decided to try something new and give this a chance, considering the summary sounded very promising.

I really wished I would have liked it more but I have to say I wasn't impressed.
I found the setting pretty interesting. People create robots as more efficient war weapons and then robots decide to take over to "put an end to the conflicts and bring peace to the world." I like the setting a lot but I felt it was underdeveloped, there isn't a lo More...

Overall, this book is definitely engaging to read; very fast paced. I love each and every one of the characters. I wish I could invite Kevin to come ramp up our home entertainment system, Cass to be my child so my husband and I can go to her sports games, and Nick to be the next president of the United States. I only have a couple of critiques.

So, just by looking at the front cover, I thought one of the main characters was going to turn out to be a robot (look at the eyeball, I swear that's a fa More...

Read this one today during Cameron's tennis lesson. Ripping good start with world being destroyed by robots a la Terminator with a few brave humans escaping into the wilderness. Fast forward 16 years and we have our stalwart band of teens living off the land with their parents that is, until, wait for it, they are found by the robots who are exterminating the last few pockets of human resistance. Long story short teens go into the belly of the beast to rescue their parents from "re-education."

K More...

Revolution 19 is one of the only books I've read that deals with robots. The book starts out with a group of people trying to escape from the robots, and then we flash forward to when their children are now teenagers- Kevin, Nick and Cass. We only get to see a quick flash into what their life is like at their Freepost before their world is quickly turned upside down and we're suddenly thrust on an adventure with these three kids that didn't seem entirely convincing. While these kids have motivat More...

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Thank you Edelweiss and Harper Teen for providing me a copy of this book in exchange for an honest review. This did not influence my review or opinion in any way.

I've had my fair share of post-apocalyptic and dystopian stories. There's nothing better (aside from zombies, that is...) than reading heroes and heroines entangled in a messed-up system and society and their struggle to liberate themselves from it. But you know, after reading a lot of such books, y More...

Revolution 19 is a compelling and adventurous post-apolocalyptic young adult novel, sure to get anyone's blood pumping. Fast paced and full of wonderful drama and action, this is a novel that will knock your socks off. Gregg Rosenblum has written an incredibly dymanic thriller, full of mystery, romance, and suspense. With an intriguing cast of characters, brilliant plot development, and tons of action and drama this is a surefire winner from a new debut author blasting onto the scene with inten More...

I didn't think that I'd be reading anything much worse than League of Strays this year, but, my friend, this one has taken the cake. League of Strays had potential to become very good, though it just fell flat in areas in which it could have excelled. This one, however, was just plain bad. And I don't say that about books often. There was not one thing that I found likeable about it. The plot was awfully clichéd, the writing style painfully simplistic, and the characters dull and irritating. I f More...

Cover Blurb: Yes or No? As much as I dislike staring covers, for a book like this, a cover that creeps me out is totally suitable. The one thing I don't like is the person on the cover is clearly a girl, and Nick is the one who gets the cyborg eye.

Characters: I wouldn't say that the cast of Revolution 19 is my absolute favorite group ever, because they're not. In truth, Nick, Kevin, Cass, and even Lexi and Farryn have pretty basic personalities. They're not as bad as being cardboard cutouts; the More...