The Cityborn
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May 29, 2017
Willett (the Helix War series) wraps his capable new adult science fiction adventure around the fate of a mysterious many-tiered city and its inhabitants. The Captain, the only person who can access the city’s repair systems, is dying, and First Officer Kranz and his allies bred a handful of special children, the Cityborn, to replace him—but all but one of the Cityborn have died. Alania, Kranz’s ward, is thought to be the only surviving Cityborn. When a surprise rebel attack sends Alania down a trash chute to escape, she ends up many tiers down in the Middens and encounters Danyl, another Cityborn who was raised in secret. With rival forces hunting them, the two must fight to survive and decide for themselves which side they’re on. Readers will probably work out the city’s secret long before it’s formally revealed, but Willett’s spunky protagonists and colorful world will entertain SF adventure fans. Agent: Ethan Ellenberg, Ethan Ellenberg Literary.
June 15, 2017
Twenty years ago, a special mission sent a resistance agent to the highest levels of the City to steal an important child named Danyl. Raised in the middens, the garbage heaps that skirt the bottom of the towering self-contained city, he scavenges for the funds that will earn him a pass to enter the City itself, even if he can reach only the lowest tiers steeped in poverty and oppression. Alania, who was missing from the nursery the night Danyl was kidnapped, was fostered by an officer and grew up as a member of the privileged class on the Twelfth Tier. She and Danyl are both potential catalysts for reviving the City, and when their paths intersect, they will have to decide whose vision of the City's future they will follow. VERDICT The rigid dystopian society of the City is nothing new, but the young protagonists give this latest novel from Willett ("The Shards of Excalibur" series) possible appeal for teen readers. Unfortunately, the plot loses a little coherence as it races to a muddled conclusion.--MM
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