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Rating: 3.7/5
Started: 10 April 2022
Finished: 11 April 2022
Summary:
Verity City is a city torn in half--by the monsters, and by the wall. The monsters are the shadowy products of violence: Corsai created by pain, Malachai made by murder, and Sunai formed from atrocities that take many lives. The wall divides the two governing bodies of the city. On one side, Flynn and the PFC do their best to curb violence and protect their people. On the other, Callum Harker controls the monsters, giving his citizens safety, but with a cost.
Kate Harker, the estranged daughter of Callum Harker, has finally been allowed to return to Verity City. She is determined to prove to her father that, unlike her mother, she is not weak. August, the adopted son of Flynn, is a monster--a Sunai who wants nothing more than to be human, to fight for the PFC and protect his city, and to not feel any hunger for tainted souls. When Flynn agrees to send him into a school to spy on Kate Harker, he's relieved to finally be helping with something.
But the city is preparing for war. August and Kate, trapped in the middle, must choose who to fight--and what to fight for.
Thoughts:
This was a very average book. It was interesting; it was engaging. I'm amenable to reading the sequel. But I was decidedly not wowed. There were no moments where I felt excited or happy by the book. I think that was really the problem: it didn't cause me to feel anything. August's monster versus human dilemma was interesting, for sure. And Kate's murders and toughness and trying to prove her worth to her father was pretty cool. But there were no real surprises, and no amazing relationships. Honestly, for how cool of a premise the book was, it was a little disappointing that I wasn't more connected to it.
Words:
Entropy (n) lack of order or predictability; gradual decline into disorder
Torque (v) apply a twisting force to (an object)