The book gripped me from the very beginning and I had to put on hold everything else while I read this powerful story. This is a retelling of Persephone and the scenes mentioned in the content warning are heartbreaking-they are the Hell.they are also something that is happening in real life in present-once again science-fiction acts as a mirror to highlight the injustices and suffering that exists in our world. Please, read the content warnings and the blurb.

One of the best science-fiction books I've read in a very long time. Their stories, often containing disturbing physical and sexual violence, skate across years, building to a single confrontation when the fate of all-human and alien-balances upon a knife’s-edge. *A young woman with inhuman powers rises through the insurgent ranks of soldiers in the borderlands of Night. *Genetically modified twin brothers desperately search for the lost son of a human/alien couple in a criminal underground trafficking children for unknown purposes. *A violent warlord abducts a young girl from the agrarian outskirts of Dusk leaving her mother searching and grieving. In the four habitable areas of the planet-Day, Dusk, Dawn, and Night-the haves and have nots, criminals and dissidents, and former alien conquerors irrevocably bind three stories: Having destroyed Earth, the alien conquerors resettle the remains of humanity on the planet of Eleusis. Most Anticipated Fall 2021 Sci-fi, Fantasy & Horror- BiblioLifestyle

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