Title: Otherborn
Series: Otherborn (Book One)
Author: Anna Silver
Pages: 290
Release Date: April
4, 2013
Format: Paperback,
ebook
Publisher: SapphireStar Publishing
Genre: YA
Subgenres: dystopian,
science fiction
Rating: 4 stars
Otherborn Synopsis, long:
London and her teenage friends live in a reprocessed
world.
Confined within Capital
City's concrete walls, London has done the
impossible and the illegal. She’s created something New- a song. But
her mentor, club owner Pauly, is not impressed. Since the historic Energy
Crisis forced everyone behind walls generations ago, the Tycoons have ensured
there is truly nothing new allowed under the sun. Pauly warns London to keep her song to herself, if she
knows what's good for her.
What he doesn't know is that London is keeping an even
bigger secret: she dreams. And she's not alone. London's band-mates and friends have begun
dreaming as well, seeing themselves in “night pictures” as beings from another
world. As Otherborn, they must piece together the story of their
astral avatars, the Others, in order to save their world from a
dreamless, hopeless future.
When Pauly is murdered and an Otherborn
goes missing, London
realizes someone is hunting them down. Escaping along the Outroads, they brave
the deserted Houselands with only their dreams to guide them. Can they find
their friend before the assassin finds them? Will being Otherborn save their
lives, or destroy them?
Review:
This
well-written book, called Otherborn, is a dystopian story that will rock your
world! A fascinating plot, great characters and a love story is all it takes to
love Otherborn. But let’s start from the beginning.
The main
characters are London, a girl who smokes, has no father and a mother with a
drinking problem, sings, plays the guitar and writes songs, a thing so
beautiful and creative that makes her dangerous.
Rye is
London's best-friend, her supporter, her biggest fan and the love of his life.
Sounds pretty serious, but it is. They'd been through a lot before they shared
their first kiss.
Zen is
the adventurous one. Why? Because when Avery, his friend and the girl he loves,
disappears, he's the first to go look for her. But he won't be alone, because
the rest of the gang, including shy Kim, will go with him. Although, that's not
the whole band. There was one last member, Degan, who was murdered in the
beginning of the story.
“He swallowed back the things he wanted to
tell her: how much he'd missed her, how scared he had been, that he thought he'd
lost her for good, that he loved her..”
