Renegade
by:
J.A. Souders (author)
J.A. Souders's haunting debut—Renegade Since the age of three, sixteen-year-old Evelyn Winters has trained to be Daughter of the People in the underwater utopia known as Elysium. Selected from hundreds of children for her ideal genes, all her life she’s believed that everything is perfect. Her...
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J.A. Souders's haunting debut—Renegade Since the age of three, sixteen-year-old Evelyn Winters has trained to be Daughter of the People in the underwater utopia known as Elysium. Selected from hundreds of children for her ideal genes, all her life she’s believed that everything is perfect. Her world. Her people. The Law. But when Gavin Hunter, a Surface Dweller, accidentally stumbles into Elysium’s secluded little world, Evelyn comes to a startling realization: Everything she knows is a lie.Her memories have been altered.Her mind and body aren’t under her own control.And the person she knows as Mother is a monster. Together with Gavin she plans her escape, only to learn that her own mind is a ticking time bomb...and Mother has one last secret that will destroy them all.At the publisher's request, this title is being sold without Digital Rights Management software (DRM) applied.
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Format: kindle
ASIN: B008BMLPDK
Publish date: November 13th 2012
Publisher: Tor Teen
Pages no: 352
Edition language: English
Series: The Elysium Chronicles (#1)
Since the age of three, sixteen-year-old Evelyn Winters has been trained to be Daughter of the People in the underwater utopia known as Elysium. Selected from hundreds of children for her ideal genes, all her life she’s thought that everything was perfect; her world. Her people. The Law.But when Gav...
Don't let the Barbie doll cover fool you into thinking that this story is in any way cutesy. It starts off fairly tame with perfect gardens, in a perfect society peopled by perfect blonde blue eyed citizens (which is in it's own way really creepy) but soon uncovers the twisted reason why this socie...
More Reviews:Okay straight up warning, this book has insta-love. However the reasoning for the insta-love makes sense to me so I'm okay with it. And how GORGEOUS is that cover?! The world of Elysium is an eden located under the sea, which I actually love the idea of but after reading the book I do...
*Many thanks to Tor Teen and NetGalley for allowing early access to this title - I received a free galley in exchange for an honest review. I was not compensated in any way for this review.*I started out LOVING this book. I thought the underwater setting was gorgeous and the whole setup was absolute...
3.5 stars. Renegade, despite my rating, was actually a very interesting and amazing book to read about, considering its underwater/utopia/Atlantis topic — which I'm not too interested in reading about. But it was executed nicely. Except for a couple of things. ◦ The RomanceThis was a large part of t...