by Veronica Rossi
My Rating: ★★★★
"They called the world beyond the walls of the Pod "the Death Shop."
My Review: Although this has a bit of a love story towards the tail end of the book it isn't overwhelming at all. It took me longer than usual (five days) to finish this book but only because my entire life cannot be devoted to reading books. I wish it could be!
Back to the story, it's written from the third person but the point-of-view goes back and forth between the main characters. Aria, the Dweller girl, who starts out a scared, weak and naive girl, but who quickly finds herself becoming a strong and independent woman in the end. Then there's Peregrine, Perry, the Savage and worlds away in attitude and personality from Aria.
They live on the same planet but two different worlds. Aria has lived underground all her life with the rest of society which went down there to stay away from the 'aether sky' which appears to be destroying the planet in more ways than one. It is this sky that Aria dubs the 'never sky' because it never does what you need or expect it to do. In any event, their paths cross, more than once, and although they seem to hate each other, they quickly realize they need each other to get what they want.
Of course you can easily guess they end up falling each other. And as most tragic love stories go, they really shouldn't be together.
Aria is seeking her mother as well as answers to questions that keep piling up along the journey. Perry is searching for his nephew as well as retribution for the guilt he's held inside for as long as he's been alive. Together they will get some answers and as the reader I was glued to wanting to take the journey with them every step of the way. I'll probably add Through the Ever Night as a February read now.
Exiled from her home, the enclosed city of Reverie, Aria knows her chances of surviving in the outer wasteland—known as The Death Shop—are slim. If the cannibals don’t get her, the violent, electrified energy storms will. She’s been taught that the very air she breathes can kill her. Then Aria meets an Outsider named Perry. He’s wild—a savage—and her only hope of staying alive.
A hunter for his tribe in a merciless landscape, Perry views Aria as sheltered and fragile—everything he would expect from a Dweller. But he needs Aria’s help too; she alone holds the key to his redemption. Opposites in nearly every way, Aria and Perry must accept each other to survive. Their unlikely alliance forges a bond that will determine the fate of all who live under the never sky.
In her enthralling debut, Veronica Rossi sends readers on an unforgettable adventure set in a world brimming with harshness and beauty.
To learn more about Veronica Rossi please visit her official website.
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