Elizabeth Scott - Grace
Publisher: Dutton Juvenile | ISBN: 0525422064 | 2010 | EPUB/PDF | 208 pages | 1 Mb/2 Mb
Publisher: Dutton Juvenile | ISBN: 0525422064 | 2010 | EPUB/PDF | 208 pages | 1 Mb/2 Mb
Although it’s never quite clear whether this is set in another world or a near future in ours, the parallels Scott (Living Dead Girl, 2008) strives for are patently evident. Grace was raised by the People to become an Angel, a girl whose single purpose in life is to strap on a bomb and blow up a chunk of disputed leader Keran Berj’s society. When Grace balks at the last moment and disgracefully survives the explosion, she attempts to flee the country along with another obviously haunted boy. The book takes place, with flashbacks, on the grueling train ride to the border, as the two evade the suspicions of guards and tentatively draw out each other’s shameful secrets. In all, it’s a fairly one-note affair: choose life, however hard, over an idealistic death. Surprisingly, this lacks a climax, but the terse writing effectively portrays Grace’s harrowing inner turmoil as it speaks to the part of the psyche that wonders how a person could willingly become a walking bomb.
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