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    MILA 2.0: Renegade
    MILA 2.0: Renegade
    MILA 2.0: Renegade
    Audiobook11 hours

    MILA 2.0: Renegade

    Written by Debra Driza

    Narrated by Tara Sands

    3.5/5

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    Debra Driza's MILA 2.0 is the first book in a gripping Bourne Identity–style trilogy about a girl who discovers she is actually an android.

    Mila was never supposed to remember her past, or know what lurked beneath her synthetic skin. She was never meant to learn that she was ""born"" in a secret computer science lab and programmed with superhuman skills. But when a group of hooded men show up on her doorstep, hoping to strip her of her advanced technology, she has no choice but to run for her life. In every direction there are dangerous people, hunting her down. They will do whatever it takes to capture Mila, including hurting the people she cares about most.

    Filled with secrets, action, and even romance, MILA 2.0 is perfect for readers who love sci-fi thrillers like the Partials series and I Am Number Four.

    LanguageEnglish
    PublisherKatherine Tegen Books
    Release dateMay 13, 2014
    ISBN9780062299857
    Author

    Debra Driza

    Debra Driza is the author of MILA 2.0 and MILA 2.0: Renegade. She is a member of the teen lit blogging group the Bookanistas and a former practicing physical therapist who discovered that tormenting her characters was infinitely more enjoyable. These days you can find her at home in California, wrangling one husband, two kids, and an assortment of Rhodesian ridgebacks. You can visit her online at www.debradriza.com.

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    • 2/5
      This book was rather underwhelming... The romance in particular was undeveloped and less than believable, but those adjectives could be applied to any number of other elements of the book. Also, Highly Resistant Protagonists (by which I mean protagonists, particularly narrator-protagonists, who stubbornly remain in denial of their plot and spend a significant amount of page space whining and complaining and wishing their lives were normal) are, believe it or not, not terribly entertaining to read about (excepting those like Bilbo Baggins, who are Highly Resistant to Comedic Effect; Mila is not one of these).

      The plot, when it finally happened, wasn't fast-paced enough to make up for its initial slowness, and much of it was far too predictable -- there really weren't any twists or Big Reveals, for all the suspense.

      Also, a ridiculous amount of brand-name-dropping, especially in early chapters.

      Giving it two stars, and feeling generous.
    • 2/5
      Really disliked the main character. Couldn't get past her whining enough to give it more than a 2. Full review to come.
    • 3/5
      Mila is not a normal teenager., but she doesn't know that...yet. As Mila discovers more about herself, we get to see her struggle between her humanity and her android programming.It's a good premise, but there was something about the book that I just didn't love...I'm not sure if it was the writing or what. It just didn't feel right. Sounds silly, but there you go. Basically, I have little interest in finding out more (I'll wait for the TV show...see below).Some might say this has been done before though...my first thoughts were of a younger android version of Sydney Bristow...then I thought Nikita...then I thought a nicer version of Terminator minus the time travel...then Bionic Woman minus the ever being human part.HOWEVER! I can DEFINITELY see this becoming a pretty cool TV show. It's very much a story of self-discovery and the action will make for some pretty cool tv-watching. I mean, Shonda Rhimes apparently has a hand in it and I dig her...so fingers crossed!
    • 4/5
      Milia is a bit of a loner. She does not really have any friends. Her only friend is Kaylee.Things change between them when they both try to catch the attention of the new boy in town, Hunter. Kaylee offers to give Hunter a ride and makes Mila ride in the back of the truck bed. Kaylee goes really fast and Mila gets thrown out of the truck. This is when her whole life as she knew it changes. Mila learns that she is not a real girl. She was made in a laboratory. Now there are some men who want Mila. Mila and her mother go on the run. I liked this book. Mila only got better as her character and the story developed. She got more intriguing with what she could do. Adults and teens will enjoy this book and trilogy. Where the book world is currently over run by vampires, werewolves, fairies, and zombies it is cool to see a series that is kind of furturistic. My only conplaint about this book is that I did feel it was too long for a first book. I understand that the author was trying to explain the conception and get me ffamiliar with the characters to come in the series but still a bit long. I might not be saying this if it was not for the fact that the action and story did not pick up until about almost 150 pages into the book. Also, I will have to see how it goes in the next book as I am not feeling the love connection between Mila and Hunter at this moment. Of course they did spend most of the book apart. MILA 2.0 is a book that your friends will be talking about. So don't be left behind and pick up a copy for yourself.
    • 4/5
      Wonderful read! Suspenseful, thrilling, and intriguing! I was amazed at how attached I became to Mila...I was shocked when she found out about herself and felt very upset when she worried about losing her humanity. For a first novel in a series, it was well written and not too bumpy a ride getting to the meat of the story. Definitely would recommend this to hard-core sci-fi lover's.
    • 2/5
      Interesting concept, lukewarm execution.When I read the summary for the book I got really excited. Unfortunately within the first few pages I began questioning the plot and the main character, which leveled my interest. The book has alot of plot holes and the main character had that I'm-a-practical/smart-survior-in-any-case-except-when-it-comes-to-boys personality which pops up in a lot of YA fiction but couldn't be ignored in this one.I think the author should have built up Mila's character, gave her a realistic set of everyday struggles and made her a character you feel connected to before moving the story forward. Without that connection it makes it hard to follow Mila's internal struggle with both herself and her place among others.While I did eventually finish the book, I didn't enjoy it. I read a lot of books, and there are very few I don't like. This book had a lot of potential and while I won't be reading the next one I hope the author is able to tap into that potential.
    • 4/5
      At first I am going to have to be honest...I thought this book was a little weird, I really went back and forth between three stars and four...I think a 3.7 would fit

      I had to get past the angst of Mila being a regular girl. Oh and for one thing.... If a supposedly best friend of mine told me to ride in the back of the truck just so she could be alone with a guy, I would have told her to go to .... or kiss my rear-end...or ok well never mind you get the point and the way the Kaylee treated her afterwards...oh geeze I think the girl deserved some neck ringing

      Short complaint over

      Now the first half and the second half of the book just didn't seem to go together. How did we get to one point to the other. It just seemed to be a bigger leap then justified. I am going to say that if you have been wanting to read the book, then do and be your own judge.
    • 4/5
      The basic premise is a bit outlandish, but I love the idea of hearing the story of the android who thought she was human coming from her own first person point of view. She was clearly well "programmed" to think and act like a normal teenager, for the most part (aside from her keener than usual sense of hearing and sight). But she also has some pretty nifty android programming, like the internal GPS and the enemy "alert" system.

      Driza's storytelling is so vivid that I could see everything happening in my mind as I listened, and the fact that the main character is an android helped me further suspend disbelief at a few highly improbable moments. I also appreciated Driza's use of foreshadowing to make me curious to find out what happens next (or to unravel the mystery of MILA 1.0). I listened to the first book via my Scribd subscription and will do the same for the next book.
    • 4/5
      RENEGADE is clearly the middle book in a trilogy. Mila has escaped the lab run by the evil General Holland but she lost the woman she knew as her mother in her escape. She called her friend Hunter in a moment of weakness and spends the first quarter of the book feeling guilty for putting him in order and also feeling guilty for her desire to leave him despite the fact that that would be the safest thing to do for him.Mila and Hunter are tracking down some people that her mother told her about as she was dying. They are also trying to stay away from the Vita Obscura because her mother told her that they wanted her to experiment on. She said they wanted to take her apart to understand her technology and sell it to the highest bidder.This story tells what happens when she is captured by the Vita Oscura. It is filled with new discoveries and new problems. It also ends on a major cliffhanger. Had I known that, I would have waited for the third book to come out before I read this one. I face months of wondering what is going to happen next!Science fiction fans and romance fans will find things to enjoy in this series. Mila is a great character with lots of conflicts and issues but also with lots of character and heart. Hunter isn't a bad boyfriend either.
    • 4/5
      This is going to be a quickie review because most of what I say would lead to spoilers.

      Renegade picks up right where Mila 2.0 leaves off. I love that Mila allows herself to take chances even when bad things can happen. Hunter is so freaking sweet, it’s unreal. He does everything he can ot be there for Mila, even after some of the events leave him mad. We also get to meet some new characters. Some of them were pretty great, but a few I wanted to smack around. I mean seriously, manipulating people is not cool.

      Renegade is action packed. There were a few plot twists that I saw coming since the first book, but overall there were some nice surprises in there. We see characters I never thought we’d get a chance to. The ending was the mother of all cliffhangers, and I’m excited to see where Driza takes it in the next book.

      Renegade is a great follow up to Mila 2.0. We finally get the answers to some things, but are definitely left with a few more questions.
    • 4/5
      Until she falls off the back of a pickup truck in book one of this series, leaking some kind of machine fluid instead of bleeding, Mila has no idea that the gaps in her memory and the overprotective tendencies of her mother are clues to her real nature. Which is android--and when she finds out she is just as horrified as she thinks everyone else will be. As this second book opens Mila has escaped from the military facility that wants to use her as a weapon, the place where she was tortured and forced to fight her evil look-a-like twin android sister, but the woman she knows as her mother is now dead and Mila is left with only cryptic clues about her past, the obviously false childhood memories that keep surfacing, and who she should go to for help. So Mila calls on Hunter, the guy she liked before she discovered she isn’t an average teenage girl and the guy she still gets heart palpitations around even though she knows she’s a machine, doesn’t have an actual heart, and what’s she doing with emotions anyway. Without updating Hunter about what she now knows about herself and her situation, Mila makes up a story that convinces him to road-trip with her so she stay one step ahead of the people trying to recapture her while trying to make contact with someone who can explain things. The fast action excitement of the plot and the exciting discoveries Mila keeps making about her useful android abilities get a little bogged down by Mila’s predictable and somewhat excessive internal agonizing about keeping her secret from Hunter, though generally I’m greatly enjoying the friction created between Mila’s human and machine sides. Author Debra Driza smoothly worked review information into the first chapters of Renegade, a big help for readers like me who have had a time gap since reading Mila 2.0. Along with Mila we learn more about who/what she is in this second book, and we meet some of the key people from her past--though it’s not always clear who can be trusted. There is still a lot of story left to tell, and I look forward to reading the next book.
    • 4/5
      “I was really excited for this book to be released, I LOVED the first book so much. However, I wan't impressed as much with the second book. It was action-packed and adventure-filled, which I enjoy, I just wanted some more romance in there. Mila and Hunter were just on the verge of a really good romance when we ended in Mila 2.0 and it kind of fizzled out in Mila 2.0 Renegade. I was just disappointed that Mila distrusted Hunter so much, it was sad to see that happen to them. It really affected their relationship in a bad way. There are some secrets revealed and I could understand the creation of Mila better. I felt sad for Mila, after loosing her mom she really didn't have anybody else and her relationship with Hunter didn't seem so promising anymore. The ending left us completely hanging so of course I will have to read/listen to the next book in this series. I'm hoping the romance will be kicked up a knotch in the third book.
    • 4/5
      Review courtesy of Dark Faerie TalesQuick & Dirty: The action, suspense, and thrill of book number one continues in a fantastic continuation of the Mila 2.0 series.Opening Sentence: If I could record real-life moments in my head like a DVR, this afternoon would top the list as one of the most replayed.The Review:Note: since this is a review for a sequel, the first paragraph and possibly the others will contain minor or even major spoilers! In Mila 2.0, Mila learns she is a cyborg, loses her mother, and set off on the run with Hunter, a boy she’s hardly known but has a connection with. She goes off on the only lead she has, a name. In this story, all the action and excitement of the first book continues with some major plot twists and startling revelations.I enjoyed watching Mila start to embrace her android-ness. True, she is learning also the meaning of being a human, of having emotions, but by the end of the book she has become more comfortable in her own skin. The development was large, and Mila was a great character with all the fight and spunk of Katniss or Tris. She learns herself and who to trust. I loved her in Mila 2.0, but in Mila 2.0 Renegade I enjoyed her character even more. However, I can’t say the same for her main love interest: Hunter. In book number one we realize that Lucas is also a contender but it’s clear where Mila’s true feelings are, at least in the first two novels. At the beginning of this book, I didn’t trust Hunter. After all, why would he travel across the country to help some girl he barely knows? Their relationship felt false, as did Hunter’s motivations, and by the end of the book he hadn’t changed much at all.Lucas, on the other hand, is a whole different story. He starts out on the enemy side. He gradually sees the human in Mila. He makes risks and sacrifices but she still isn’t accepting him as anything more than a friend, but I can say she starts to feel butterflies and the like by the end of this one. If this is meant to be a love triangle than so far it is leaning in Hunter’s favor. The one thing lacking in both relationships is the humor aspect, which I was let down by slightly.I can’t argue with Mila’s awesome android functions or the many action-packed scenes. Not only does she have to fight in her romance but she has to fight to stay alive and discover her orgins. Every few chapters we’d have a good ‘ole fight scene or a deep heart to heart between characters, and as her character grew so did my interest in the story. At the end of the day, she actually finds out a lot, even if the amount of information dumped on us was a little daunting a few times. After processing I got it. The plot is engaging but complicated, but not to the point I didn’t eventually understand.Altogether, this novel lived up to my high expectations after Mila 2.0. I was pleased with the characters, the mystery aspect, but the only thing I wasn’t so excited about was the romance. The author did an amazing job of nitpicking all the science parts so we could understand and so the plot was reasonable and realistic. Mila is a fantastic heroine and I loved watching her grow. I would, again, like to see more of Lucas in book 3, and there are also still a few plot holes waiting to be patched up. Though I was very interested in the plotline, somehow I didn’t connect as thoroughly as I did with my other favorites, so that’s why it got four stars as opposed to five. If you loved Cinder by Marissa Meyer than you will be crazy for Mila 2.0! She isn’t a cyborg, but she’s an android. So close enough, right? Hopefully you pick up the first and second at your closest bookstore or library soon, as I’m positive you will not regret it.Notable Scene:“So, heres what’s going to happen,” Quinn continued, ignoring him completely. “Mila is going to execute the prisoners, as a little demonstration of my success. Of course, you can keep that from happening at any time by giving me access to the intel accounts.”FTC Advisory: Katherine Tegen Books/Harper Collins provided me with a copy of MILA 2.0: Renegade. No goody bags, sponsorships, “material connections,” or bribes were exchanged for my review.
    • 4/5
      3.5 I wanted to read Renegade because I enjoyed the first book, and wanted to continue with the series. I don't remember much about Mila 2.0 except I liked Mila and her struggle with discovering she isn't human. I remember liking the action, plot as well as wishing she would pick a guy and really fall for him, and by synopsis of Renegade, it seems like it may be Hunter. Renegade starts out slowly and with Mila and Hunter on the road. Traveling aspects of books can sometimes be hard for me and I think that might play into it as well as not having time to reread the first. We get a decent recap without feeling like an info dump, but I still felt a little lost, and I was getting dejavu from Hunted by Kade because of the not completely human aspect, betrayals by parents and off to hide or find someone with a boy. I got through that though, and remembered why I liked Mila. She's strong and analytic, but she still has a lot of feelings. She ends up not telling the whole truth to Hunter because she is afraid and also trying to protect him, but she keeps doing little things to give him clues that something more is going on that he doesn't know about. He is a strong presence for her, giving her comfort, joking with her, and generally keeping her company, making her feel like someone is in her corner. They have a chemistry and a lot of tension because they are taking things slowly and every time they dated in the first book something went wrong and interrupted them and now she is on high alert. There were done unexpected twists and I was doubting someone that I never thought I would. There were also people involved that I never would have guessed. This made the last half really fly by because I had to see what surprises I would find next. Out is revealed more about Mila and how she works as well as how she was made and get purpose. Though part of the big reveal tho Mila herself I guessed pretty early on butt I don't know I'd that was the point. The ending raced to a dramatic conclusion and one he'll of a cliff hanger. It was one of those moments wee you are sure the author just left out about one hundred or so pages because you can't leave a reader in suspense like that. I will definitely be reading the next in the series tho find plot more about Mila, about Hunter and his reaction to dating an android as well as Lucas who made a last minute appearance. Bottom Line: good second book: surprises, romance and action.