A future world through the eyes of a female narrator who becomes irrevocably changed when a new boy comes into her life. I'm smiling now just thinking about the trap - disguised as the safe and old - that this book lures you into.īecause you know exactly what this is, right? You've read the description and you think you know what’s coming, don't you? A future world where an evil tyrant has taken over and enforced a set of crazy rules. I picture Erin Bow smiling evilly as she wrote this book.
I am married to another novelist, and we can actually pay our bills. I think Hufflepuff is the best house, Xander was the best Scoobie, Five was the best Doctor, and Spock was the best everything.Ĩ. I hate horror, so I wrote a horror: SORROW'S KNOT,ħ. I think cats can actually talk, but don't find us worthy, hence PLAIN KATE.ħ. I needed a book with a Spock-like hero who was also a queer girl, so I wrote THE SCORPION RULES, and its sequel THE SWAN RIDERS.Ħ. I needed WHERE THE RED FERN GROWS to have a happy ending, so I wrote a middle-grade book called STAND ON THE SKYĥ. I am dangerous to your dignity and should be stopped.Ĥ. All my books will either will make you either cry on the bus or snort milk out your nose. I write books for young readers and people like me who didn't grow up. I am world-famous in Canada, which is kind of like being world-famous in real life.ģ. I'm a physicist turned poet turned YA novelist.Ģ. A game that will end up killing them both-unless she can find a way to break all the rules.ġ. And he opens Greta’s eyes to the brutality of the system they live under-and to her own power.Īs Greta and Elián watch their nations tip closer to war, Greta becomes a target in a new kind of game. Elián is a boy who refuses to play by the rules, a boy who defies everything Greta has ever been taught. But everything changes when a new hostage arrives. Like them, she is prepared to die with dignity, if she must. Like them, she is taught to obey the machines that control their lives. Until then she lives in the Precepture school with the daughters and sons of the world’s leaders. Greta will be free if she can survive until her eighteenth birthday. This is how the game is played: if you want to rule, you must give one of your children as a hostage. Greta is a duchess and crown princess-and a hostage to peace. And really, if the odd princess has a hard day, is that too much to ask? The world is at peace, said the Utterances.
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