Girl in the Arena
As a modern gladiator's daughter, Lyn and her family live by the rules of the Gladiator Sports Association. But those rules can turn against you. When Lyn's seventh father dies in the ring, his opponent, Uber, captures Lyn's dowry bracelet—and her hand in marriage. To win her freedom, Lyn will do...
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As a modern gladiator's daughter, Lyn and her family live by the rules of the Gladiator Sports Association. But those rules can turn against you. When Lyn's seventh father dies in the ring, his opponent, Uber, captures Lyn's dowry bracelet—and her hand in marriage. To win her freedom, Lyn will do what no girl has done before: enter the arena and fight her father's murderer—even though she's falling in love with him.
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Format: ebook
ISBN:
9781599906157 (1599906155)
Publish date: August 17th 2010
Publisher: Bloomsbury
Pages no: 336
Edition language: English
Had potential but the ending sucked...argh - felt like I wasted my time reading this
I must be the world's worst gift receiver, because it can really take me AGES to finally get to reading books I've been lucky enough to get as gifts. Though I do really try. So I've owned Girl in the Arena for about two years now and have just gotten around to reading it. At the time I got it, I was...
Why was this book written? I mean damnit it started off with such great intentions...then what hell happened? I was thinking "hell yeah, give me a bad-ass chick in an arena, kicking ass and taking names!", I'm thinking Russell Crowe's Gladiator type shit and it started off with this great little int...
PJV Quickie: Girl in the Arena’ was not what I expected, in both a good and bad way. Sometimes surprises keep things interesting.‘Girl in the Arena’ was described as the daughter of woman that has made a career out of marrying neo-gladiators, is forced into marrying a young gladiator when he captur...
I want to give Girl in the Arena four--possibly even five--stars, because it has something few other books I've had the pleasure of reading has. Something I've been looking for, desperately, within YA fiction. Something that just...I don't know... Just speaks to me, I guess; feels true. I can relate...
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