After spending time in treatment with other young women like her-who cut, burn, poke, and otherwise hurt themselves-Charlie is released and takes a bus from the Twin Cities to Tucson to be closer to Mikey, a boy she "like-likes" but who had pined for Ellis instead. Seventeen-year-old Charlie Davis, a white girl living on the margins, thinks she has little reason to live: her father drowned himself her bereft and abusive mother kicked her out her best friend, Ellis, is nearly brain dead after cutting too deeply and she's gone through unspeakable experiences living on the street. This is a multiplanet, multiculture, multitech world and a timely tale.Īn exceptionally satisfying series opener.Īfter surviving a suicide attempt, a fragile teen isn't sure she can endure without cutting herself. Never faltering in her fast pace and nuanced characterization, Belleza weaves together many complex layers: the recent Great War (massacres, famines, clouds of chemical gas that scorched whole cities to dust) racism, roundups, and imprisonments the roles of media and propaganda revenge, guilt, grief, and obligation and disturbing moral questions about privacy and technology, especially regarding the cubes implanted in most people’s minds to orient them geographically and store their thoughts and memories. It’s no coincidence that Aly, the accused, is black and belongs to an oppressed refugee group Rhee has the tan skin of the ruling group. In another thread, in breathlessly alternating chapters, Aly finds himself tossed from his life in the military (and reluctant star of a reality program) into a desperate quest to absolve himself from the charge of assassinating Rhee.
She’s bent on revenge on the man who assassinated her family years ago, which left her the last Ta’an of 12 generations of warrior emperors-but he may not be who she thought. An assassination attempt from a shocking source has Rhee running from planet to planet, disguised, untangling threads of deception and betrayal.
A galaxy perches on the edge of war when word goes out that the crown princess has been assassinated.Įxcept she hasn’t been.
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