Friday, January 27, 2012

Friday Future Read


FOR DARKNESS SHOWS THE STARS
by Diana Peterfreund

Generations ago, a genetic experiment gone wrong—the Reduction—decimated humanity, giving rise to a Luddite nobility who outlawed most technology.

Eighteen-year-old Luddite Elliot North has always known her place in this caste system. Four years ago Elliot refused to run away with her childhood sweetheart, the servant Kai, choosing duty to her family’s estate over love. But now the world has changed: a new class of Post-Reductionists is jumpstarting the wheel of progress and threatening Luddite control; Elliot’s estate is floundering; and she’s forced to rent land to the mysterious Cloud Fleet, a group of shipbuilders that includes renowned explorer Captain Malakai Wentforth—an almost unrecognizable Kai. And while Elliott wonders if this could be their second chance, Kai seems determined to show Elliot exactly what she gave up when she abandoned him.

But Elliot soon discovers her childhood friend carries a secret—-one that could change the society in which they live…or bring it to its knees. And again, she’s faced with a choice: cling to what she’s been raised to believe, or cast her lot with the only boy she’s ever loved, even if she has lost him forever.


Inspired by Jane Austen’s PERSUASION, FOR DARKNESS SHOWS THE STARS is a breathtaking romance about opening your mind to the future and your heart to the one person you know can break it.


This week's Future Read is a book that I am so excited for!!!  When I went to YALLFest in November, Diana Peterfreund was there and she talked about her newest book in the dystopian society panel discussion.  This book has several things going for it.  Of course, it is a dystopian and I am so in love with those, the cover is absolutely gorgeous, but even better......IT IS BASED ON JANE AUSTEN'S NOVEL, PERSUASION!!!

So, dystopian and Austenian?  Yes, please!

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