—Chloe Gong, #1 NYT bestselling author of These Violent Delights
Fifteen years ago, The Vanishing thrust Manhattan into darkness, forever changing the City That Never Sleeps. By day, resilient New Yorkers have adapted, clinging to the vestiges of their cosmopolitan lives. By night—well, you never go out at night unless you have a death wish.
Or unless you're Rei Reynolds.
Rei attends an exclusive New York prep school, but unlike her classmates, she welcomes nightfall. That's when she can secretly hunt Deathlings, the deadly creatures that have prowled Manhattan's subway tunnels and blood-soaked streets since the Vanishing. After they brutally slaughtered her parents years ago, Rei is desperate for vengeance.
To get it, Rei must qualify for—and win—the Tournament, a competition to join the ranks of the city’s legendary Deathling hunters. Rei’s nightly pursuits should give her an advantage, but the other competitors are fierce, and in some cases familiar: enter Kieran Cross, Rei’s most infuriating rival . . . and ex-boyfriend.
As the Tournament progresses—and the cutthroat competition escalates—everything Rei believed about who she can trust is called into question. Soon enough, she’s caught in the crosshairs of the elite who want to keep the city's ruling class in power, as well as those who will stop at nothing to bring it down. Because sometimes it's not the monsters waiting in the dark you should fear . . . it's the ones who dare to walk into the light.
Coco Ma's exhilarating urban fantasy thrusts readers into an immersive world of thrills and chills, featuring the smart, sardonic post-apocalyptic heroine you’ll soon wish you could be.
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- ISBN: 9780593745755
- File size: 396169 KB
- Duration: 13:45:21
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- Lexile® Measure: 770
- Text Difficulty: 3-4
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Publisher's Weekly
July 17, 2023
In this gripping fantasy by Ma (the Shadow Frost trilogy), a teenager seeking vengeance for her parents’ murder by vicious monsters roaming a postapocalyptic Manhattan enters a cutthroat tournament in which the winner joins an elite group of monster hunters. N.Y.C. has instituted a strict curfew ever since bloodthirsty creatures called Deathlings appeared 15 years ago. But teenage Rei Reynolds regularly ignores the rule in favor of combating the monsters head-on, hoping to gain an advantage in the Tournament to join the Syndicate, a Deathling-fighting task force. But even with the experience her nightly excursions afford, her competitors are fierce, including Kieran Cross, an ex-boyfriend who ghosted her a year ago. But Rei is adamant to not let her feelings for Kieran derail her progress in the Tournament. As the competition advances, and as she contends with vicious foes, an ominous warning and the appearance of a mysterious artifact raises questions surrounding the event that plunged N.Y.C. into chaos. Though the supporting cast often feel like props, Rei is a smart and formidable protagonist whose motivations and struggles to separate her interpersonal issues from her goals, paired with elaborate worldbuilding and high-speed action, make for a nuanced series starter. Ages 14–up.
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- Lexile® Measure:770
- Text Difficulty:3-4
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