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An heir. A renegade.
A convict. A cyborg.
A défecteur.
Five rebels. One revolution.
It's been three months since the Patriarche was beheaded, leaving behind no known heir. Now, the planet of Laterre is unrecognizable. General Bonnefaçon has cleaned up the streets, fed the hungry, and restored peace while the next leader is decided upon. From the outside, Laterre seems to be flourishing. But dangerous rifts threaten to shatter the planet from within.
The Red Scar has been killing off anyone with a legitimate claim to the Regime, while the Vangarde are preparing for the return of their infamous leader. Then, it's revealed that the Patriarche had a daughter who is still alive. A missing Paresse heir...Alouette has been locked in a secret facility for months, interrogated on the whereabouts of the General's renegade grandson.
Marcellus is desperately searching for Alouette, knowing she's the key to the Vangarde's plan to overthrow the corrupt Regime, but unaware that he, himself, is being hunted by a new cyborg tasked with tracking down the planet's most wanted criminals.
Meanwhile Chatine is growing restless, living underground with a rebel group she doesn't fit into. Until an old friend solicits her help to save the Défecteur community from a mysterious, new threat. A threat that will tie them all together.
When the general makes an explosive play for power, allegiances will shift, rebels will become leaders, barricades will rise, and the tinderbox of Laterre will finally ignite, launching a revolution five hundred years in the making.
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- ISBN: 9781534474451
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- ISBN: 9781534474451
- File size: 10978 KB
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- English
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- Lexile® Measure: 770
- Text Difficulty: 3-4
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Two philosophically distinct rebel groups race to draw Laterre's citizens to their respective causes before the planet's highest-ranking military leader can claim the throne for himself. Three months have passed since the megalomaniac Gen. Bonnefa�on's plot to weaponize the Third Estate's implanted tech was thwarted. But because the narrator protagonists and their allies failed to expose the general, his influence has only grown, and the violent Red Scar extremists are unwittingly aiding him by murdering other contenders for the throne. Meanwhile, street-smart Chatine and her long-lost younger brother chafe under the peaceful Vangarde rebels' security protocols; Marcellus is consumed by the search for Alouette, who's been revealed as the sole living heir to the planet's ruling family; and Alouette herself is the general's captive and is being tortured for rebel intelligence. Themes and events from Les Mis�rables are seamlessly reimagined in this suspenseful, action-packed space opera. The protagonists grapple with sophisticated questions of destiny, genetics, power, and humanity in the face of widespread desperation and misinformation, leading to an unexpected and pitch-perfect final standoff between the general and civilian rebels. The expansive worldbuilding--after all, Laterre is only one of 12 planets in the System Divine--leaves room for future stories following this trilogy closer. Few physical descriptors are used; primary characters read as White. A thoroughly stirring, romantic, and epic conclusion. (maps, Book 2 overview, cast list) (Science fiction. 12-18)
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