In alternating first-person narratives, Day and June experience coming-of-age adventures in the midst of spying, theft and daredevil combat.
When tragedies strike both their families, the two brilliant teens are thrown into direct opposition. He's also the Republic's most wanted criminal, prone to stealing from the rich and giving to the poor. Day, on the other hand, is an anonymous street rat, a slum child who failed his own Trial. She looks forward to the day when she can join up and fight the Republic’s treacherous enemies east of the Dakotas. June is rich and brilliant, the only candidate ever to get a perfect score in the Trials, and is destined for a glowing career in the military. 10-14)Ī gripping thriller in dystopic future Los Angeles.įifteen-year-olds June and Day live completely different lives in the glorious Republic. Nevertheless, some young readers will rejoice to have the tale rounded out. Justice and true love do conquer in the end, and certainly loose ends are neatly tucked away, but a little poetry and subtlety would have relieved the tedium. An extended superheroes comic, full of slam-bang action interposed with musings about the meaning of life. The kingdom in tatters but secure, Alanna decides on a life with George, the now-pardoned king of thieves. And find it she does, returning in time to save the kingdom and her mage-brother Thom from the evil Duke Roger-whom she kills for the second time.
Alanna sets off on a quest for the Jewel of Domaine, accompanied by her latest lover (just what does "rampant" mean?), the Shang warrior Liam.
Previous volumes followed her from being a young girl-who disguised herself in order to receive training in arms-to becoming all accomplished warrior and the lover of both the heir to the throne and the chief of her kingdom's community of thieves. The conclusion of the saga of Alanna, warrior-magician.
0 kommentar(er)
