Edition: HardcoverPages: 375
Publish Date: July 10, 2012
Publisher: Simon and Schuster
Genre: Young Adult Dystopian
Series: Yes
Goodreads Rating: 3.67 (4,347 ratings)
Oh. My. Goodness.
This was such an amazing opener for this trilogy. And I think, what I love most is that it doesn't have some heartbreaking cliffhanger, mainly because I can't afford the next two books until Christmas. Though I want to continue reading it and fully intend too, I appreciate the lack of intense pressure.
I want to somehow summarize this without giving much away. Basically this trilogy follows Alenna, a 16 year old orphan living in the UNA, expecting no problem with her upcoming personality test. The test that determines any future violence. Even with all her doubts she awakes on Island Alpha. The Wheel, where the Forsaken are banished and the life expectancy is only 18. Alenna learns the ways of the one standing free village, against the Monk Drones. Following with their plan to venture into uncharted territory on the Wheel, Alenna goes along. Hoping to find remnants of her parents who were taken when she was ten.
The things she weren't expecting to find on this island, is a family. Friends. and Love.
Through the adventure, Alenna makes it through and off the island with Liam, the boy she has fallen for. When the plane they're on - expecting that it was headed to the UNA - crash lands on an Australian sand dune. Finding a large colony of rebels, working towards a takedown of the UNA, as well as Alenna's Mother, alive and well.
This is her home for the time being, until The Uprising.
“Freedom means more than just struggling to survive.”
― Lisa M. Stasse, The Forsaken
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