Two hundred years after the Great Disaster, the day earthquakes ravaged Earth's landscapes, humanity has finally regrouped and is working toward a better future. But in New America - one of three remaining landmasses - overpopulation makes a better future seem bleaker by the year.
Mira (Mirabella) Foster and her parents are citizens of New America, and with the threat of starvation and disease looming on the horizon, a new discovery threatens to push everyone to the brink of chaos: blue markings develop on people's skin. Markings that allow them to camouflage their skin, but also make them feared, and eventually, targets of violence.
Mira's dad is one of them.
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I'd yet to find a Young Adult Science-Fiction novel that captivated my imagination and wild sense of wonder so completely that I couldn't put it down, so I decided to write one. I hope you love it. xoxo
I'd yet to find a Young Adult Science-Fiction novel that captivated my imagination and wild sense of wonder so completely that I couldn't put it down, so I decided to write one. I hope you love it. xoxo
This book had me on the edge of my seat the whole time. It's fast paced and makes you want more! There were moments where I teared up (only a little I swear!).
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If you enjoy the young adult dystopian genre (i.e. Hunger Games), this is a book for you!
A gasp from the crowd tugs at me, and I open my eyes. "Dad, look..." a teenage boy says. His eyes start at my newly rolled dreads, hanging heavy around my shoulders and down my back, then travel to my drawn-on markings. I remembered the way my father's appeared when his marks returned - starting at the corners of his eyes and splaying out into the shape of a half-butterfly on each side - so I recreated it with blue eyeliner. The boy's eyes drop lower to my gladiator garb: a metal chest plate with straps around the shoulders and torso, and a skirt made from strips of leather.
My intention was to represent all today, everything that makes me who I am: the races that were torn apart by hatred and greed, but will hopefully be reunited in truth.
And I think I've accomplished it.
I shift on my bare feet as the others turn to look at me one by one. Awe registers in their expressions, then within a slice of a second their awe launches into venomous hatred.
At first I want to recoil and back away, but I feel myself lock into place, jaw set, eyes focusing on the floor and Luxxe whispering in my ear, Show them you're not afraid.
I will.
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