Since in the second book, it was such a cliffhanger. And it'll be released on May 2013?! Aw, man. Ages 13 up.Pretty pretty cover! :) Just noticed it now. Alternating first-person narrators let readers get to know intense Juneau from inside and out, while offering a window into Miles's gradual maturation. Misunderstandings and betrayals abound as Juneau and Miles set off on a road trip through the West, coming to appreciate each other in a slow-moving, believable romance. Miles Blackwell seeks to redeem himself in the eyes of his CEO father by capturing Juneau, but he's instead pulled into her attempt to find her people. In this series opener, Plum (the Die for Me books) introduces a resilient, crossbow-wielding, part-Chinese heroine, then forces this driven survivor to cooperate with a spoiled rich kid. Struggling to disentangle truth from lies, Juneau plunges into an unfamiliar world to rescue her clan, aided by her connection to the Yara, a mystical nature-force. Seventeen-year-old Juneau has grown up isolated in the postapocalyptic Alaskan wilderness, a pristine landscape of "crystalline fields veined with frozen streams." When her clan is kidnapped, she discovers that the nuclear war they supposedly fled never took place. Someone who knows the extraordinary truth about her secret past. But while she's struggling to rescue her friends and family, someone else is after her. Everything she'd ever been taught was a lie.Īs Juneau comes to terms with an unfathomable deception, she is forced to survive in a completely foreign world, using only the skills and abilities she developed in the wild.
And leaving the boundaries for the very first time, she learns the horrifying truth: World War III never happened. But when Juneau returns from a hunting trip one day and discovers her people have been abducted, she sets off to find them. The elders told her that beyond the borders of their land in the Alaskan wilderness, nuclear war had destroyed everything. Juneau grew up fearing the outside world. Amy Plum, international bestselling author of the Die for Me series, delivers a fast-paced adventure perfect for fans of Marie Lu, Veronica Rossi, and Robison Wells.
Night Shyamalan's The Village in this riveting story of one girl's journey to save the very people who have lied to her for her entire life.
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