Alara’s incredible gaming skills bring her to the attention of Estrella’s leaders. She is chosen to go on a dangerous mission to London Under, the original older, long-deserted and distrusted city on top of which Estrella (the Star city) was built, to gather ‘vital’ intelligence. Estrella is the perfect society, an immaculate, sanitised, connected environment where everything is channelled through the digital medium.
There is no dirt, no pain, no disease, no natural world, even feelings like boredom are frowned upon and discouraged. Alara is dropped down to London Under and into a “new” world which bewilders her and disorientates her.
How will she survive in a society where noise dirt and sometimes pain are everyday experiences and where food is not synthetic and tastes real? Will she accomplish her mission? Who can she trust? How will she get back to Estrella and her family and her life without worry?
Fast paced thrilling story set in a believable and plausible future Explores important themes throughout the story. In a society where there is nothing to worry about are we really free even if that offered almost total safety and entertainment for the rest of our lives? What would it feel like to experience feelings and pain and dirt and real taste if you had never experienced these things before?
With a strong dynamic female character, this is the first story in a trilogy
| ISBN: | 9781912745326 |
| Publication date: | 6th July 2023 |
| Author: | Rachel Delahaye |
| Publisher: | Troika Books |
| Format: | Paperback |
| Pagination: | 336 pages |
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