The Vessel
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5.0 • 1 Rating
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Publisher Description
A million years ago the world ended.
Since then a group of five have kept the City running.
Now, one of them has died.
Every generation, the five most powerful people in the City transfer their consciousnesses into nubile, teenage hosts. This allows them to continue their important work of keeping the city functioning and protected from the nuclear wasteland beyond its borders.
When one of the Five dies, though, the others decide that their bodies are too fragile and decide to find new hosts earlier than usual. This triggers a competition, where children from across the City travel to its center to compete for a chance to earn a place as a Vessel for one of the Five.
If chosen, their families will be taken care of for the rest of eternity. There is great prestige in being a Vessel, along with enormous wealth for the families of the chosen, which means every participant has their own motivations for competing.
Althea is one of those competitors. She is from a poor farming family on the outskirts of the City, and with the money she receives from her sacrifice, her family would never have to work again. She is willing to risk her life for them.
So, she decides to compete, traveling from her home in the outer rings through the inner rings and finally to the center where the competition is held.
Along the way, she discovers the City she once venerated is a more dangerous place than she ever thought possible. Every turn is fraught with peril, and the competition could be the death of her, even if she doesn't win.
Join Althea for a story of friendship, love, struggle, and perseverance in the face of enormous odds. Perfect for anybody who loved Divergent, The Hunger Games, or The Maze Runner.
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Customer Reviews
A 5* read. A world you slip into, characters you champion, A Storyline that curls your toes
This is a book that will keep you completely focused on the world that has been built for these characters and the well developed characters themselves. I don’t like leaving spoilers, so I will try and be as informative as I can without spoiling it for you. This futuristic world works, it was developed due to the Earth being unable to sustain life. The five who are like gods each have their specific parts to keep this new world working to sustain everything & everyone within its boundaries, and they don’t mix, each human has his place, offering nothing but scorn to those outside there ring. Then Althea a girl who is level headed and happy in her life decides to seek adventure When one of the immortal five is murdered, it is her chance to travel & get the support her family needs. However after destruction and lives are lost, her beliefs start to change. Pushing forward this brave and tough cookie begins to fight back, but with betrayal and lies clouding everybody’s opinions & beliefs it’s an uphill battle,One Althea might not have the strength to succeed in. This competition is not one she now wants to win, her focus is now on exposing the Five for what and who they are. She endures terrible battles emotional & physical. She falls in love, finds friends who risk everything to help her, even their lives. This definitely has a Hunger games, Divergent vibe, but it creates its own original storyline alongside those comparisons. Russel Nohelty has created a powerful storyline that once you start you won’t be able to escape, reading into the small hours, absorbing every image and word creating the mental images on a movie reel inside your mind. This book gave me everything I enjoy. A world I could easily slip into, a storyline giving nearly every aspect of life, death, courage, friendship, love, mystery, suspense, secrets & lies plus many more. With characters I encouraged or tried to warn in my mind. I’m giving The Vessel 5 stars for this very reason. Russell Nohelty thank you for sharing your immeasurable imagination and creativity.