Wilders
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- $16.99
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- $16.99
Publisher Description
Coryn Williams has grown up in the megacity of Seacouver, where her every need is provided for—except satisfaction with her life. After her parents' suicides, her sister Lou fled the city to work on a rewilding crew, restoring lands once driven to the brink of ecological disaster by humans to a more natural state. Finally of age, Coryn leaves the city with her companion robot to look for her sister. But the outside world is not what she expects—it is rougher and more dangerous, and while some people help her, some resent the city and some covet her most precious resource: her companion robot. As Coryn struggles toward her sister, she uncovers a group of people with a sinister agenda that may endanger Seacouver. When Coryn does find her sister, Lou has secrets she won't share. Can Coryn and Lou learn to trust each other in order to discover the truth hidden behind the surface and to save both Seacouver and the rewilded lands?
PUBLISHERS WEEKLY
Cooper's plodding coming-of-age novel posits a near future in which humankind has nearly destroyed Earth's natural resources. Those in domed city-states such as Seacover (formerly Seattle and Vancouver) live in blissful ignorance of life Outside. After Coryn and Lou Williams's parents killed themselves, the girls were resettled in an orphanage. At age 18, Lou became a rewilder, helping reclaim the land and save threatened species. When Coryn turns 18 a few years later, she takes off with her robot, Paula, in search of Lou. The Outside harbors dangers she never imagined, and by the time the sisters reconnect, neither trusts the other. The science fiction elements including ecobots, domed cities, and artificial reality glasses are believable and intriguing, and readers will be drawn into the dystopian depiction of the Outside and the various factions double-crossing each other for money and power. But Lou's wariness about Coryn means she reveals the truth about her activities too slowly, putting significant drag on the plot and increasing the reader's frustration instead of amping up dramatic tension.
