A dystopian novel set in future Los Angeles, we meet June
Iparis, a Prodigy in her world. The
Republic sets Trials for every ten year old to take, June is the only known
person to make a perfect score sending her to college and graduating at 15 to
join the Republic in the highest military ranking in the war against the
Colonies. She always marveled at the
legend that is Day, a street criminal that the Republic has not been able to
capture after 5 years of his antics.
After a heartbreaking plot twist, June is after Day, in what ends up
being a fast paced, thrilling story of death, survival, and love.
This dual point of view book kept my attention and was a
quick read. I enjoyed both Day and
June’s character and I thought Lu did a great job of flashing back and giving
the reader lots of details on the past in both of the character’s lives. I also
love that the character’s scripts were different, June being in black and Day’s
in brown, it’s just an artistic way of showing the difference in the
voices.
So, Day is worthy of a Man Crush Monday. Lu doesn’t give us a ton of physical
attributes so we are able to fill in the picture with our own thoughts and
tastes which I love. We know he has long
white blonde hair, deep blue eyes, and everyone
calls him beautiful, we know that he has a little Asian heritage, but little
else to go on. Of course this is not
what makes him crush worthy, it’s his beautiful soul. He is so transparent for a criminal on the
run. We know that his first and only
thoughts are for his family and Tess, his runaway adopted sister. He saves June from the skiz fight that is
pretty much his undoing, because as smart as June is, we know that she was no
closer to finding him as she was the first day she was on the street. He keeps his secrets for not only his safety,
but for those that he cares about and his sole goal for this book is to find
the cure for the plague that has come to his house in the poor Lake sector of
Los Angeles. So, we have this 15 year
old bad boy criminal who has been on the streets since his trials and yet he
isn’t jaded or changed in a bad way from his experiences. Then we have the Republics sweetheart, well
educated, rich, and ambitious and ready to take Day on face to face. I’m excited to see where this story goes and
what we’ll see happening throughout the lives of June and Day in the next two
books.
I highly recommend this book to readers of all ages. Keep Reading my Friends!
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