![]() ![]() ![]() ![]() In a remote part of Utah, in a “temple of excellence,” the best of the best are recruited to nurture their talents. Family and interpersonal dynamics, questions of good and evil, horrifying monsters (some of them human), and moments of violence both graphic and poetic serve as backdrop to a growing sense of kinship between Kate and August, who want a better world-but probably won’t get one, based on the zinger of an ending.Ĭrackling with energy, just the ticket for an all-night read. Across town, Sunai August (seemingly 16, black haired and gray-eyed, a monster who tries to be human) wants his adoptive father’s side to succeed in creating a better world. Against this, Kate Harker (fair-haired, partially deaf, inclined to arson and spying) returns to appease and impress her father, who controls the Malchai and half the city. The scene: an isolated supercity in former middle America, populated by the evil Corsai and Malchai and the more complicated Sunai, who can kill only those who have killed (and must do so regularly to maintain their semblance of humanity) all have been born from moments of violence. Schwab’s latest seems poised to grab both her adult and teen readers the world is fascinating (if sometimes a little thin-education and technology are almost exactly the same in this future), the characters complicated, and the political machinations and emotional depths both charged and compelling. Natural enemies find themselves reluctant allies in a war-torn, monstrous future. ![]()
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