Black City
Elizabeth Richards
Releases: November 13, 2012
G.P.Putnam’s Son’s
Penguin Young Readers
ISBN: 9780399159435
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Author Site: http://blackcitytrilogy.com/index.html
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Blurb From The Publisher:
A dark and tender post-apocalyptic love story set in the aftermath of a bloody war
In a city where humans and Darklings are now separated by a high wall and tensions between the two races still simmer after a terrible war, sixteen-year-olds Ash Fisher, a half-blood Darkling, and Natalie Buchanan, a human and the daughter of the Emissary, meet and do the unthinkable--they fall in love. Bonded by a mysterious connection that causes Ash's long-dormant heart to beat, Ash and Natalie first deny and then struggle to fight their forbidden feelings for each other, knowing if they're caught, they'll be executed--but their feelings are too strong.
When Ash and Natalie then find themselves at the center of a deadly conspiracy that threatens to pull the humans and Darklings back into war, they must make hard choices that could result in both their deaths.
Our Thoughts On Black City:
This is not just another vampire book, in fact in Black
City there are humans, and then there are Darklings and both have an agenda up
their sleeves for the future. What captures readers is the world and character
building in this book that surpasses expectations and weaves reader’s into an
intriguing bittersweet story of finding what you what and having to fight to keep
hold of it in an unsteady time.
Ash is a Darkling, in fact he is more than that because
he is considerd a twin-blood meaning that he crosses both the world of human
and Darkling. The Darkling race is varying in looks and abilities and a human
created virus is sweeping through their families destroying people into
slavering Wraiths. Ash struggles to help provided money for his troubled family
and help other people in hius commnuuity but the price of that help is
consuming him because he is providing a drug called Haze that is being
persecuted by officials and is destrying some of his friendships. Finding
himself questioning parts of his existence and running from humans who may want
to maim or kill him just for being Darkling, Ash is becoming more bitter and
detatched until one day something drastic happens, in his heartbeatless life,
something is stirring that will change his life forever.
Natalie has recently moved back to the derelict Black
City, a city in the Sentry States that has seen recently harsh times in its
history. Natalie has a history of herself with her father recently killed for
his work involving Darklings and her Emissary mother who works in the labs on
Darklings to produce something sinister for their race. With something hunting
Natalie and a recent string of killings and attacks, her conflicted
relationship with her mother and injured sister are leaving Natalie wanting
more in life, as if she is missing a piece of herself but that may all soon
pass as she has to enroll in a new Black City school for the lower class
people, including Darklings that will change her world forever. As Natalie
tries to hold off her attraction to Ash, she soon finds herself immersed in a
hidden world and strung into events that will change her future forever, but at
what cost? Will Natalie find the strength in herself to face the growing
challenges in fighting for what is right and involving herself in an illegal
relationship? Richards blends these elements together into a gripping heroine that
captivates us as much as we want Natalie to find peace in this troubled world.
In the world of Black
City we find the United Sentry States, basically our future has been
transformed. Cities are divided between Wookboot working class people and the
Sentry humans who are running the show. There are massive Boundary walls separating
the humans from the Darkling population except for the Darklings who are
basically slaves for humans and with a new legislation that is in the works,
the Darkling may soon become nothing more than expendable livestock with little
rights. But all of that may soon changes as alliances are being made and
undermined by individual and faction groups that are fighting for their own
ideal futures at the cost of many lives.
Elizabeth Richards has created something spectacular in Black City. With a cast of driven and captivating
characters we are immersed into a dark world of intrigue and oppression at the cusp
of change and at the cost of citizen life. With a dueling scientific community
and a host of ruling class people that are fueling their own agenda, Richards
takes us into the heart of our characters just as they are finding something in
each other to live for. With a gripping plot and twists that will surprise, Black City is a powerhouse of beauty in
a dark time in these character’s lives that will pull our heartstrings.
With
an astounding finish Black City will
give a great book hangover and leave us all pining for more.
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