![]() ![]() I have to admit, that while I don't exactly recommend this novel for people my age and older, I still really liked it. ![]() At the Spire, Tom essentially trains to become a combatant soldier yet, as he will soon learn, it isn't the game of battle he needs to learn quickest, it's the game of corporate politics, friendship, and corruption. However, when Tom's gaming prowess, which keeps him clothed, is discovered by the government, they recruit him to join the Pentagonal Spire where he is implanted with a neural chip that instantly makes him smarter than the average human being. Yet, for Tom, war is the last thing on his mind as he struggles to make ends meet with his gambling father who constantly keeps moving him. Tom lives in a futuristic world, not too far ahead from our very own, where World War III is fought solely in space without losing any lives. ![]() I definitely don't see anything wrong in reading it as an older teen, like me, but it simply doesn't have the desired punch on a much older audience. While it is marketed as a Young Adult Novel, I'd probably recommend it for mature middle grade students or young high schoolers. Insignia is the type of book that would have blown me away if I had been any younger. ![]()
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