![]() It’s a subtle and yet blindingly powerful story. Honestly, I’m not sure the best marketing team in the universe could have described this novel to me in a way that accurately captures every single layer and color of brilliant, painful, surprising raw talent Erin Bow shows here. ![]() Which surely means that Greta and Elián will be killed.unless Greta can think of a way to break all the rules. ![]() Now the great Talis is furious, and coming himself to deliver punishment. Then Elián’s country declares war on Greta’s and invades the Precepture, taking the hostages hostage. His rebellion opens Greta’s eyes to the brutality of the rules they live under, and to the subtle resistance of her companions. He’s a hostage from a new American alliance, and he defies the machines that control every part of their lives-and is severely punished for it. But everything changes when Elián arrives at the Precepture. Until then she is prepared to die with dignity, if necessary. Greta will be free if she can make it to her eighteenth birthday. Parents don’t want to see their children murdered. ![]() This is how the game is played: if you want to rule, you must give one of your children as a hostage. She is also a Child of Peace, a hostage held by the de facto ruler of the world, the great Artificial Intelligence, Talis. ![]()
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