What was once the western United States is
now home to the Republic, a nation perpetually at war with its neighbors. Born
into an elite family in one of the Republic's wealthiest districts,
fifteen-year-old June is a prodigy being groomed for success in the Republic's
highest military circles. Born into the slums, fifteen-year-old Day is the
country's most wanted criminal. But his motives may not be as malicious as they
seem. From very different worlds, June and Day have no reason to cross
paths - until the day June's brother, Metias, is murdered and Day becomes the
prime suspect. Caught in the ultimate game of cat and mouse, Day is in a race
for his family's survival, while June seeks to avenge Metias' death. But in a
shocking turn of events, the two uncover the truth of what has really brought
them together, and the sinister lengths their country will go to keep its
secrets. Full of nonstop action, suspense, and romance, this novel is
sure to move readers as much as it thrills.
I really enjoy this book, is a good dystopian novel with a lot of action and a
conspiracy theory plot. Legend is told from two points of view: June and Day
(I like that the font color was different for June and Day). June is a kick
ass heroine and Day is a great counterpart, both are intelligent with analytical
reasoning(especially June, she analyze everything). And my favorite character is
Day, he´s protective, loyal, charming (in a peculiar way, he´s like a modern
Robin Hood).
I recommend this book to all the dystopian lovers.
Ohh, almost forgot, CBS films acquired the film rights of the book. source
For months part-angel Clara Gardner trained to face the raging forest fire from her visions and rescue the alluring and mysterious Christian Prescott from the blaze. But nothing could prepare her for the fateful decisions she would be forced to make that day, or the startling revelation that her purpose—the task she was put on earth to accomplish—is not as straightforward as she thought. Now, torn between her increasingly complicated feelings for Christian and her love for her boyfriend, Tucker, Clara struggles to make sense of what she was supposed to do the day of the fire. And, as she is drawn further into the world of part angels and the growing conflict between White Wings and Black Wings, Clara learns of the terrifying new reality that she must face: Someone close to her will die in a matter of months. With her future uncertain, the only thing Clara knows for sure is that the fire was just the beginning.
I´m participating in the Soul Screamers Reading Challenge hosted by Rachel at Fiktshun.
The Challenge
To read or re-read and review(or post about) all five full-length books in the Soul Screamers series by Rachel Vincent between January 15 and June 14, 2012.
We know you are here, our brothers and sisters . . .
Pressia barely
remembers the Detonations or much about life during the Before. In her sleeping
cabinet behind the rubble of an old barbershop where she lives with her
grandfather, she thinks about what is lost-how the world went from amusement
parks, movie theaters, birthday parties, fathers and mothers . . . to ash and
dust, scars, permanent burns, and fused, damaged bodies. And now, at an age when
everyone is required to turn themselves over to the militia to either be trained
as a soldier or, if they are too damaged and weak, to be used as live targets,
Pressia can no longer pretend to be small. Pressia is on the run.
Burn a Pure and Breathe the Ash . . .
There are those who escaped the
apocalypse unmarked. Pures. They are tucked safely inside the Dome that protects
their healthy, superior bodies. Yet Partridge, whose father is one of the most
influential men in the Dome, feels isolated and lonely. Different. He thinks
about loss-maybe just because his family is broken; his father is emotionally
distant; his brother killed himself; and his mother never made it inside their
shelter. Or maybe it's his claustrophobia: his feeling that this Dome has become
a swaddling of intensely rigid order. So when a slipped phrase suggests his
mother might still be alive, Partridge risks his life to leave the Dome to find
her.
When Pressia meets Partridge, their worlds shatter all over again.
"We know you are here, our brothers and sisters.
We will, one day, emerge from the Dome to join you in peace.
For now, we watch from afar, benevolently"
Pure is a dystopian novel about the dark
days post-apocalyptic and the struggling to survive of the people that are left
behind.
When
I start reading Pure it was a bit of a shock to me, trying to imagine such world,
is not sugar coated, the earth after “the end” is raw, grotesque at times. The
story is situated nine years after the “detonations”, so most people remember
the before, remember how was the world before thecataclysm.
And there are two groups of survivors: the ones that live inside the dome that
are called Pures and the ones that live outside the dome called wretches. The
people that survive outside the dome are scarred, burned or fused with objects.
Pressia
is 15 years old at the beginning of the story, she lives outside the dome with
her grandfather and in her world the “military” recruit all the people at
sixteen and you have two choices be a soldier or be a target. Is a crude world
and all the people doing what they can to survive and surprisingly Pressia has
a good heart. She tries to stay alive but she helps people whenever she can.
Inside
the dome lives Partridge, he´s 18 years old, a privileged boy in a sort of
boarding school where he goes to classes, to
parties, lives in a safe environment, he has the “perfect” life, unmarked,
scarless.
What
are the odds of this two different people meet each other?
I
like Pure because is the first dystopian novel that I read that is situated
shortly after the cataclysm.
The people still remember the before, that must be difficult...to remember.
This novel got me hooked, has action,
mystery, conspiracy theory.
In Book 5: City of Lost Souls, the
Shadowhunters struggle to piece together their shattered world after a betrayal
by one of their own leaves them reeling.
The year is 2009. Nineteen-year-old Jackson Meyer is a normal guy… he’s in college, has a girlfriend… and he can travel back through time. But it’s not like the movies – nothing changes in the present after his jumps, there’s no space-time continuum issues or broken flux capacitors – it’s just harmless fun.
That is… until the day strangers burst in on Jackson and his girlfriend, Holly, and during a struggle with Jackson, Holly is fatally shot. In his panic, Jackson jumps back two years to 2007, but this is not like his previous time jumps. Now he’s stuck in 2007 and can’t get back to the future.
Desperate to somehow return to 2009 to save Holly but unable to return to his rightful year, Jackson settles into 2007 and learns what he can about his abilities.
But it’s not long before the people who shot Holly in 2009 come looking for Jackson in the past, and these “Enemies of Time” will stop at nothing to recruit this powerful young time-traveler. Recruit… or kill him.
Piecing together the clues about his father, the Enemies of Time, and himself, Jackson must decide how far he’s willing to go to save Holly… and possibly the entire world.
