Fledgling
The Keeper's Records of Revolution
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Descrizione dell’editore
The first book in a gripping duology from New York Times bestselling author S.K. Ali introduces a fractured world on the brink of either enlightenment or war.
“A sweeping epic of love and revolution, set in a visceral future vision of Earth and starring a cast you can’t help but fall for.” —Marie Lu, #1 New York Times bestselling author of Stars and Smoke
Would you trade love for peace?
Raisa of Upper Earth has only lived a life of privilege and acquiescence. Ever dutiful, she accepts her father’s arrangement of her marriage to Lein, Crown Prince of the corrupt, volatile lands of Lower Earth.
Though Lein is a stranger, Raisa knows the wedding will unite their vastly different worlds in a pact of peace: an infusion of Upper Earth technology will usher in the final age of enlightenment, ending war between humans forever.
Or is justice more urgent?
Newly released from imprisonment, Nada of Lower Earth has found her own calling: disrupting the royal wedding.
Convinced her cousin Lein’s alliance with Upper Earth will launch an invasive, terrifying form of tyranny, Nada sets out undercover to light the spark of revolution.
When Raisa goes missing a week before the wedding, all eyes turn to the rebels, including Nayf, Nada’s twin brother, a fugitive on the run.
In Nayf and Raisa meeting, the long-simmering animosity between their worlds slowly burns away into something unexpected.
But the Crown Prince wants his bride — and future — back. And he will go to the ends of the earths to reclaim them.
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Hoping to forge a lasting alliance between their peoples, 19-year-old Raisa Freelund, daughter of the Guardian of Upper Earth, prepares to enter a political marriage with Lower Earth's Crown Prince Lein Verg. Simultaneously, 19-year-old Nada Verg, a political prisoner and former princess, sets off on behalf of Lower Earth rebel factions to block the alliance, seeking to prevent Lower Earth's citizenry from being enslaved by colonialist, technologically advanced Upper Earth. Nada's mission is complicated by the involvement of her childhood love Musaid Habib, who is entrusted by Lein to make sure that his wedding goes off without a hitch. As they become embroiled in decades of Upper and Lower Earth plotting, the characters find that nothing is as it seems. Ali (Love from Mecca to Medina) immerses readers in a postapocalyptic dystopia that raises questions about the meaning of freedom and the politics of revolution through a sprawling cast, numerous perspectives, and detailed worldbuilding. Though occasionally didactic in tone, this fiery duology opener leaves plenty of tantalizing hooks to whet the appetite for a sequel. Ages 14–up.
