![]() ![]() a Builder or Breeder), but she is dismayed to be assigned to a partner who came to the tribe as an outsider and has managed to survive in their culture. She is proud of her training as a Huntress (vs. (These have a whiff of zombie about them, if you're trying to picture it.)ĭeuce has survived to the age of 15, so she is marked with fire and given a name instead of a number. ![]() She and her bunch are pretty brutal, exiling or killing off anyone who breaks the rules, but they are menaced by worse terrors-the cannibalistic mutants they call Freaks. Deuce is part of a mostly primitive tribe inhabiting the subway tunnels in a post-apocalyptic New York City. Really, Aguirre has built her own world here, and it makes the one with those 12 (or 13) districts and televised death matches look downright cheery. I compare them simply to give you some idea about the book's general tone and level of violence. But believe it or not, Deuce's world is worse than Katniss's. I'm pretty sure I'm not the first nor will be the last to compare this book to The Hunger Games: tough teenage girl who's a warrior, dark dystopian setting, a race for survival. ![]()
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