All Good Children
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- 3,49 €
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- 3,49 €
Publisher Description
Everyone tells 14-year-old Jordan Fontaine not to worry about the summer camp that isn't really a summer camp, not to worry about the survival statistics she's been calculating since elementary school, or about the quickly averted eyes and frowning mouths of her peers when she tells them her Liaison is coming to visit she and her brothers. She does not dare to tell anyone that her pulse quickens when she looks at the beautiful Liason. But the Liaison, whose role is to supply their inhuman masters with bodies, is being manipulated by another. And Jordan will be drawn into a dangerous coup that she is unaware of, This is a world where women are bred like cattle, ensuring the continuation of the human race—or, as they are known to the malevolent Over, sustenance. Perhaps some children need to be seen and heard.
"Ingram has invigorated the apocalyptic genre with a tightly woven story brimming with atmosphere.... This novel is at once refreshing and thoughtful, and a great addition to the genre." - Publishers Weekly, starred review
"This is a short read...but it manages to convey this world and an engaging plot without seeming rushed. Dayna Ingram has a gift for imagining rich and disturbing worlds. Although The Over are fantastical, the rest of the world seems brutally realistic. I was hooked from the first fire-and-brimstone chapter, and was kept clinging on until the very last page. Eat Your Heart Out is one of my favourite books (who can resist lesbians and zombies?), and All Good Children definitely lives up to those expectations." - Danika Leigh Ellis for The Lesbruary
"All Good Children is suffused with compassion, outrage, despair, and dreams that die at birth. Dayna Ingram has crafted every fiber of this rich tapestry with the utmost care. And—like the reader—all are held in exquisite tension." - Lea Daley, author of FutureDyke
PUBLISHERS WEEKLY
Ingram (Eat Your Heart Out) reinvents the alien-invasion novel and mixes it with a quintessential young adult sensibility that feels raw and real. Jordan Fontaine is a teenager in a world where children are drafted by Earth's alien overlords to become either cattle or experimental subjects. When Jordan and her brothers are selected, she begins a rigorous training program that leads her to come to terms with the horror around her. Stubbornly, she refuses to accept her fate and frequently acts out against her superiors. Jordan's life is altered again when a dangerous opportunity presents itself. Ingram has invigorated the apocalyptic genre with a tightly woven story brimming with atmosphere; the world the Fontaines live in is equal parts familiar and surreal. There is a quiet depth and intensity to Jordan that makes it easy for readers to invest in her personal struggles. Ingram's supporting cast is also well-rounded, and the action moves along at a fast clip. This novel is at once refreshing and thoughtful, and a great addition to the genre.