Rebels: City of Indra
The Story of Lex and Livia
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- $7.99
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- $7.99
Publisher Description
Kendall and Kylie Jenner, stars on the hit reality show Keeping Up with the Kardashians, present their debut novel—a thrilling dystopian story about two super-powered girls who embark on a journey together.
In a world of the far future, the great City of Indra has two faces: a beautiful paradise floating high in the sky, and a nightmare world of poverty carved beneath the surface of the Earth.
Lex grew up in an orphanage deep in the dark. But even as a child, she instinctively rebelled against her fate—the time when she would be judged either useful to Society or forced to live among the mutations in Rock Bottom, the lowest level. When she is chosen to become an elite cadet of the Population Control Forces, only her fellow cadet Kane truly understands her longing for freedom.
Unknown to her, one girl secretly shares her defiance. Livia Cosmo, the Orphan Airess, may live on a sky island surrounded by wealth and privilege, but she is just as restricted as Lex. Rigid discipline governs her every movement, as she learns the art of becoming a Proper Young Woman, the belle of the Emergence Ball, ready to be picked for “cohabitation” by the finest of the Proper Young Men. Her future is assured, until an intriguing encounter with a young man named Kane changes everything.
For that is when Lex’s and Livia’s destinies collide….
Approached by an old enemy to help save Kane from mortal danger, Lex sacrifices her Special Ops career to find him in the Islands among the clouds. Her search, high above in the beautiful spires of the City of Indra, brings her instead to the airgirl Livia. Lex and Livia should have nothing in common, and yet they share a kindred yearning for escape from the strict rules that bind them...and a mystifying identical mark. Brought together by danger, they set out to find Kane, but what they discover is even stranger than either dreams.
PUBLISHERS WEEKLY
Two smart, strong, but very different orphans narrate this dystopian adventure, a debut for the youngest Kardashian sisters. Spirited Livia, the daughter of a revered geneticist, grows up privileged but stifled on an island in the sky, while hotheaded Lex survives an unloving orphanage underground and is recruited into the military. When Kane, Lex's love interest and fellow soldier, is arrested during a botched attempt to assassinate Livia, Lex goes to rescue Kane meeting Livia, in the process, and learning that they share a forbidden connection. Through the girls' alternating perspectives, readers get a sense of the corrupt world that has emerged after a mysterious "Great Catastrophe," where nature is now synthesized and the only way to see an ocean is virtually. Details about the two worlds the girls inhabit are creative, though the plot that emerges after they meet is rather predictable. Even so, abundant action including a hair-pulling fight, a high-speed chase on flying machines, and an attack by hideous beings known as "mutations" provides momentum. Unresolved conflicts set the scene for the next installment. Ages 14 up.
Customer Reviews
Too expensive???
Is it just me or is this book way to expensive?
I still love you though Kendall and Kylie!!
Terrible
You have to be stupid to A.) believe they wrote this book and B.) think this is a well written book.
This book is absolute trash and proves money can't buy talent. They aren't meant to be writers and for all of you reading this book giving it good reviews all because your fans of two girls who sit around taking pictures all day and haven't even had the talent to finish high school, and then came out with a book they hardly promoted.
Smh disgusting
BS
One of them can't read, the other one was failing school.
Yeah they wrote a book alright.
This book is soooo boring I downloaded the sample and my god within the first 3 pages I wanted to go to sleep. The writing is horrible, and the plot is just plain STUPID!