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Author: Bishon Hart
Genres: Genre Fiction
NEW ADULT Readers who came of age during the dystopian sweep of The Hunger Games series, and more recently devoured Sunrise on the Reaping, will be enraptured again by this pulse pounding dystopian adventure, now with all the maturity, desire and heat of romantasy. The court intrigue and deadly gladiatorial competition is sure to keep readers of Sarah J Maas’s Throne of Glass turning pages into the night, while the eugenics-based regime and reproductive control will fulfill fans of Ariel Sullivan’s Conform.
In the kingdom of Edenland, where sexual desire and reproduction are outlawed, Princess Marion Light and penniless boxer Nick Barkley, once secret childhood sweethearts, are drawn back into each other’s treacherous orbit when Marion is betrothed to the cruel crown Prince, and Nick enters the royal gladiator games just to see her again. Edenland is a theocracy driven by eugenics and a rigorous caste system. Ruled by the all-powerful North dynasty, citizens are segregated into a “Guardian Class” and Feudal workforce based on their genetic makeup. Sexual reproduction is strictly forbidden under the Indecency Act and made-to-order children are created exclusively in incubators. Eighteen-year-old Marion’s betrothal to Prince Malcolm North launches the Festival of Feats, a month-long gladiatorial game to celebrate their union. Marion is horrified to learn that Feudal Nick Barkley, her only friend from a poverty-stricken childhood, is a contestant that she will be forced to watch compete in three deadly trials. To acknowledge their connection, or to give in to their long-harbored feelings, means certain death for them both. If Marion is to keep Nick alive, she will have to move in secret, weighing her public performance against her inner desire, and her life against love.
Character dynamics such as childhood playmates to forbidden lovers, a love triangle vying between passion and duty, and themes of nature vs societal oppression, invoke Emily Bronte’s Wuthering Heights. Marion and Nick are like dystopian Heathcliff and Cathy, their yearning and jealousy is obsessive. Their desire for one another becomes a religion that threatens to upend their respective worlds, and the theocracy that defines Edenland.
Author: Bishon Hart
Genres: Genre Fiction
NEW ADULT Readers who came of age during the dystopian sweep of The Hunger Games series, and more recently devoured Sunrise on the Reaping, will be enraptured again by this pulse pounding dystopian adventure, now with all the maturity, desire and heat of romantasy. The court intrigue and deadly gladiatorial competition is sure to keep readers of Sarah J Maas’s Throne of Glass turning pages into the night, while the eugenics-based regime and reproductive control will fulfill fans of Ariel Sullivan’s Conform.
In the kingdom of Edenland, where sexual desire and reproduction are outlawed, Princess Marion Light and penniless boxer Nick Barkley, once secret childhood sweethearts, are drawn back into each other’s treacherous orbit when Marion is betrothed to the cruel crown Prince, and Nick enters the royal gladiator games just to see her again. Edenland is a theocracy driven by eugenics and a rigorous caste system. Ruled by the all-powerful North dynasty, citizens are segregated into a “Guardian Class” and Feudal workforce based on their genetic makeup. Sexual reproduction is strictly forbidden under the Indecency Act and made-to-order children are created exclusively in incubators. Eighteen-year-old Marion’s betrothal to Prince Malcolm North launches the Festival of Feats, a month-long gladiatorial game to celebrate their union. Marion is horrified to learn that Feudal Nick Barkley, her only friend from a poverty-stricken childhood, is a contestant that she will be forced to watch compete in three deadly trials. To acknowledge their connection, or to give in to their long-harbored feelings, means certain death for them both. If Marion is to keep Nick alive, she will have to move in secret, weighing her public performance against her inner desire, and her life against love.
Character dynamics such as childhood playmates to forbidden lovers, a love triangle vying between passion and duty, and themes of nature vs societal oppression, invoke Emily Bronte’s Wuthering Heights. Marion and Nick are like dystopian Heathcliff and Cathy, their yearning and jealousy is obsessive. Their desire for one another becomes a religion that threatens to upend their respective worlds, and the theocracy that defines Edenland.