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Humans sheltered from the threat of extinction. Now their shelter is a prison.
No one has heard of science. Priests burn books and save their sharpest daggers for people asking the wrong questions.
Sensible girls stay quiet and become docile wives, but Phos doesn’t do sensible. She seeks escape, and questions smoulder inside her. Who created her world and what lies beyond its walls? Science might have answers, but the Church outlawed science thousands of years ago.
A nearby windmill explodes, and Phos explores the ruins. But curiosity breeds danger, and her parents vanish along with her entire school. Now she runs from the priests - to survive she must learn how her world works.
Ask the wrong question and she’ll face disaster. Stay silent and she’ll face death.
No one has heard of science. Priests burn books and save their sharpest daggers for people asking the wrong questions.
Sensible girls stay quiet and become docile wives, but Phos doesn’t do sensible. She seeks escape, and questions smoulder inside her. Who created her world and what lies beyond its walls? Science might have answers, but the Church outlawed science thousands of years ago.
A nearby windmill explodes, and Phos explores the ruins. But curiosity breeds danger, and her parents vanish along with her entire school. Now she runs from the priests - to survive she must learn how her world works.
Ask the wrong question and she’ll face disaster. Stay silent and she’ll face death.
511 pages, Kindle Edition
Published April 4, 2020
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July 21, 2024
This is not my usual read and is probably best classed as a YA sci fi. It is about a girl called Phos who lives in a world where a powerful church is deliberately suppressing technology and knowledge itself. One day a disaster strikes her village and her parents, who have attracted the attention of the church due to owning illegal books among other things, go missing. Phos is extremely inquisitive and her drive for knowledge leads her to find out both what is happening and how to stop it. She meets other characters such as the tormented but kind Caliper who sees visions which it becomes apparent are not what they seem, and Christina who appears at first to be a kind of Oracle.
I really liked the way that this story kept me guessing and asking questions the whole way through. Many of the answers we will only see in a sequel and I am already intrigued about this. At first it had more of a fantasy feel to it due to the medieval type setting, and as the book progresses it becomes clear what is actually going on.
I could have done with a map of the world at the start and maybe a glossary, but I understand this will be a feature of future editions. Really worth the time taken :)
I really liked the way that this story kept me guessing and asking questions the whole way through. Many of the answers we will only see in a sequel and I am already intrigued about this. At first it had more of a fantasy feel to it due to the medieval type setting, and as the book progresses it becomes clear what is actually going on.
I could have done with a map of the world at the start and maybe a glossary, but I understand this will be a feature of future editions. Really worth the time taken :)
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