![]() But Calix is unexpectedly assigned to the distant war effort, and Aris gets a surprising opportunity to fly. Crackerjack wing-jet flyer Aris Haan has her life figured out: She’ll be selected for Environment and work on the family farm, and her boyfriend, Calix, will be Health, and they’ll be Promised to each other. Teenage girls, along with some remaining young men, receive permanent tattoos representing one of four careers, or “life placements”: Health, Commerce, Technology or Environment. Women are deemed essential to rebuilding the population and thus forbidden from pursuing all dangerous activities. Following the Peace Accords, the Five Dominions’ leaders now rule a post-famine, war- and natural disaster–stricken world. In Banghart’s ( Moon Child, 2013, etc.) YA sci-fi novel, love, devotion, ambition and political scheming abound in a not-quite-dystopian future.Īlthough vaguely reminiscent of Suzanne Collins’ The Hunger Games (2008) and Lois Lowry’s The Giver (1993), this tale quickly takes off in its own imaginative direction. ![]()
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