BOOK TITLE: Nacreous
ISBN: 978-1941058336
AUTHOR: Sarah
Elle Emm
GENRE: Fiction
/ YA / Dystopian
NUMBER OF PAGES: 515
FORMAT: Digital
SERIES / STANDALONE: Harmony
Run #4
REVIEW BY: Dhivya
Balaji
HOW I GOT THIS BOOK: I
thank Debdatta Sahay for this review copy.
SUMMARY:
After two members of The Freedom Front
are arrested and interrogated by the UZTA’s tyrannical President Nicks, Rain
Hawkins and her friends face the alarming reality that their plans to liberate
the mixed zones across the United Zones of The Authority might not come to
fruition. While the resistance movement is growing outside the walls of the
zones, the president’s forces are strengthening and putting citizens everywhere
in more peril than ever. When Rain receives warnings that her cousin, Calista,
has agreed to support plans to kill the mixed zones, and that her life could be
on the line at the upcoming pure zone initiation ceremony, she must decide
where her loyalties lie and if all of her allies can be trusted. As The Freedom
Front use their abilities to unravel the mystery of the ceremony, The Authority
captures some of their friends, forcing TFF to either go into hiding, or plan a
rescue mission that could jeopardize everything they’ve been fighting for.
REVIEW:
I have to praise the author for
continuing her books in the right sequence, from the exact point where the
previous one ended. This fourth book in the series is the longest of the series
and could do with some editing in some places – at least that is what I felt,
with the story needing to be as tight as it could be.
Nacreous – Exhibiting lustrous or
rainbow like colours. From the title, the book raises the readers expectation.
Rain is jailed – and her shock soon multiplies as she sees another prominent
member of The Freedom Front pushed into the same cell with her. Has the
revolution movement been collapsed, compromised perhaps, by a spy? Questions
continue to plague Rain.
As the events unfold in quick
succession, Rain suffers a lot – both from the haunting dreams and from the
really uncontrollable twists and turns in the resistance movement. Nata is
becoming unbearable and Rain is even captured and tortured. Everything seems
bleak but a small force is still running strong, hoping for freedom.
The parts I enjoyed reading were Rain’s
capture and the control of the German Shepherd dog. This was the best twisting
moment of the book. The language, as usual, is good. But the book could have
done with some more editing – even if it needs a closure for the series.
Overall, a good finale to the series. But for lovers of dystopian, there are a
few unmistakable similarities.
Nice conclusion to a racy series. Special
mention to the author for the poem dedicated to Rain and Jabari, and the list
of meanings behind the names.
VERDICT: Fitting
Finale.
RATING: 4/5
ABOUT THE AUTHOR:
Sarah Elle Emm is the author of the
HARMONY RUN SERIES, a young-adult fantasy and dystopian series, released in May
2012 by Winter Goose Publishing. (PRISMATIC, May 2012, OPALESCENT, February
2013, CHATOYANT, September 2014, NACREOUS, August 2015) Her debut fiction novel,
MARRYING MISSY, was published by Bird Brain Publishing in October 2011. Sarah
is a graduate of The University of Evansville, she has lived and worked in
Mexico, Germany, England, the U.S. Virgin Islands, and has traveled extensively
beyond. Sarah lives in Naples, Florida with her family. When she’s not walking
the plank of her daughters’ imaginary pirate ship or snapping photos of
Southwest Florida scenery, she is writing.
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Paperback.
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