Upgrade
Nominated for the 2020 Young Jury Debut Prize. The boy Rémi has always felt different from others. And then his house is destroyed.

What do you do when a friend's life is at stake?
For a moment you take a breath. The race you have been running seems to be at an end. But then your best friend disappears and you become involved in someone else's secrets. Before you know it, you are looking again.
Rémi is still trying to find answers to his questions, while at the same time searching for his missing friend. He no longer trusts anyone. But then help comes from an unexpected source.
Using the latest inventions in the Creodrome, he gets closer and closer to the truth about himself. He manages to find a trace of his friend. But then his world comes to a halt once again.
ISBN:12345698 – NURÂ 285
Number of pages: 275
Publication date: October 2019
The sequel to Upgrade Remi 1.0. The story continues where the previous one left off, as everyone recovers from all the events new mysteries rear their heads. Remi and his friends dive deeper into the secrets of the Creodome and search for a missing friend. Lara Reims has written another YA topper in which you are sucked into the story from page 1. The suspense is very palpable. We are waiting for the third part Home to come out next year. A top notch book.
After Upgrade, we as readers were left with many questions: who sees behind Rémi? Why? And what are the secrets of the other special characters? In the second book, Lara Reims gives only sparse answers and although as a reader you feel that you are getting closer and closer to a denouement, you are left with even more questions that make you prefer to read part three right now. Meanwhile, expectations for the third book are high and a climax where the tension is driven to the highest level is almost inevitable... Looking forward to the spring, because then we can expect the third and final part at Hamley Books: Home will hopefully close the trilogy with an unprecedented climax! With Blackout, Lara Reims once again provides a captivating science fiction story with a world that continues to amaze and captivate. As a reader, you can only wait with a pounding heart for the ultimate finale.
How lucky I am that I also got to read the 2nd part of Lara Reims' trilogy for the book verdict of Thriller Readers! Black-Out continues where Upgrade left me as a reader with lots of unanswered questions, but which then leaves you with lots of new unanswered questions after closing. This 2nd volume also features some great inventions and gadgets that might be quite useful to many people in the future. Lara again managed to get me to put aside this 2nd volume only with difficulty. Her writing style is smooth and enjoyable, she knows how to hold the tension well and I am eagerly looking forward to the last part. I give this book 4 stars!
Lara Reims writes overlooking Bucharest, where she went to live in 2019. Before that, she lived in Paris for many years. Ten years ago she moved from Amsterdam to France and then so to Romania, where she now lives, reads and writes.
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