Recommended Age:
13
+
Great for independent readers who enjoy fast-paced, immersive dystopian stories with character-focused action and suspense.
About the Book
In a future military dictatorship that has divided North America into warring nations, fifteen-year-old June is the Republic's most decorated soldier prodigy, while Day is its most wanted criminal and when June is sent to hunt Day for a crime he may not have committed, their collision changes both their lives. A fast-paced dual-perspective YA dystopian thriller driven by sharp action and growing romantic tension. The first book of a trilogy.
Content Ratings
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Moderate Themes
The novel explores government propaganda, class-based oppression enforced through military violence, the manipulation of young people into service of an unjust state, and the cost of questioning what one has been taught to believe.
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Moderate Violence
Military combat, executions, street violence, and family deaths occur; violence is intense and recurrent.
