âRed Dawn meets Escape from New York and The Hunger Gamesâ (Booklist) in an action-packed dystopian fantasy filled with âprose [that] is gorgeous and brilliantâ and âtells a satisfyingly dark tale through alternating the two sistersâ points of viewâ (VOYA, starred review).
Itâs been nearly two decades since the Red Allies first attacked New York, and Manhattan is now a prisoner-of-war camp, ruled by Rolladin and her brutal, impulsive warlords. For Skyler Miller, Manhattan is a cage that keeps her from the world beyond the cityâs borders. But for Skyâs younger sister, Phee, the POW camp is a dangerous playground of possibility, and the only home sheâd ever want.
When Sky and Phee discover their momâs hidden journal from the warâs outbreak, they both realize thereâs more to Manhattanâand their motherâthan either of them had ever imagined. And after a group of strangers arrives at the annual POW census, the girls begin to uncover the islandâs long-kept secrets. The strangers hail from England, a country supposedly destroyed by the Red Allies, and Rolladinâs lies about Manhattanâs captivity begin to unravel.
Hungry for the truth, the sisters set a series of events in motion that end in the death of one of Rolladinâs guards. Now theyâre outlaws, forced to join the strange Englishmen on an escape mission through Manhattan. Their flight takes them into subways haunted by cannibals, into the arms of a sadistic cult in the cityâs Meatpacking District and, through the pages of their momâs old journal, into the islandâs dark and shocking past.
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