Iranian on his mother’s side and white American on his father’s side, Darius never quite fits in.

When Darius’ grandfather becomes terminally ill, Darius, along with his parents and younger sister, travels to Iran for the first time in his life.

Though the villains sometimes tend toward melodrama, this feeds into the extremity of the setting.Īn above-average dystopia intelligent and absorbing.ĭarius Kellner suffers from depression, bullying by high school jocks, and a father who seems to always be disappointed in him. Her gritty, lifeless world, the result of the destruction of all of the world’s trees, is populated by desperate drifters who survive with portable solar respirators. By embedding one dystopia into another, Crossan keeps readers on their feet. However, when the groups arrive, they learn that Sequoia might be an even worse tyranny than the one they escaped earlier worse, the Sequoia group intends to kill thousands in the pod city. Separated, Bea and Quinn try to find Sequoia, the only remaining sanctuary, while Alina heads in the same direction with her small group of survivors. Also on hand are Alina, one of the first rebels, and Quinn, disaffected son of the pod’s army general. Now, he joins the rebels when he meets Bea on a trip outside the pod. Ronan, son of the dictatorial pod minister, became disillusioned when he helped to destroy the rebels’ sanctuary in the last book. Readers are plunged directly into the adventure with little recap. This action-packed sequel to Breathe is every bit as nail-biting and satisfying as its predecessor - visionary storytelling of the highest quality.This conclusion to the dystopian romance begun in Breathe (2012) follows a group of teens trying to survive in the airless, derelict wilderness outside of their domed, tyrannical pod. In a world in which the human race is adapting to survive with little air, the stakes are high. Meanwhile the former Pod Minister's son, Ronan, is beginning to have his doubts about the regime but as a member of an elite force he is sent out of the pod to hunt down the Grove's survivors. The welcome they receive at Sequoia is not what they expect, and soon they are facing a situation that seems as threatening as that of the Pod inhabitants. Quinn, Bea and Alina separately must embark on a perilous journey across the planet's dead landscape in search of the rumoured resistance base Sequoia. The Grove has been destroyed but so has the Pod Minister. Resistance to the Pod Leadership has come apart. 'Mad Max for the eco-generation, it's a superlative dystopian thriller' – Lovereading4kidsįrom Carnegie Medal winner Sarah Crossan comes the sequel to the brilliant and compelling Breathe.

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