In an attempt to provide the background for The Hunger Games trilogy, Collins has crafted this prequel centering around teenager Coriolanus Snow who becomes the dictator of Panem in the trilogy. Snow, whose prominent family is suffering in poverty, is ready to graduate from the Academy, hoping for a scholarship to the University, planning to regain his family’s stature and become president of Panem someday. At the same time, tributes are being selected from the 12 districts for the 10th Hunger Games and Academy seniors are selected to mentor each of the 24 competitors. Coriolanus is paired with District Twelve’s female tribute, Lucy Gray Baird, who seems weak and somewhat crazy. But Lucy Gray has a voice that makes the citizens take notice, and it isn’t long before Snow is crafting a plan that changes the nature of the Hunger Games and elevates the status of his tribute, all with the intention of making sure “snow lands on top.” But for those at the top, the fall to the bottom is a long way down. If you are a Hunger Games fan, don’t miss this companion novel.
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It’s 2575 and Kady Grant has just broken up with her boyfriend, Ezra, when their planet, Kerenza, is attacked by BeiTech Industries in a attempt to control the planet’s secret mining operation. Kady, her mother and Ezra all escape on three different spaceships. Only one, the Alexander, is equipped to do battle with the pursuing BeiTech warship, the Lincoln. As the ships flee, a deadly virus breaks out on one ship, AIDAN, the artificial intelligence controller is malfunctioning, and the enemy is closing in. Ezra is forced into military service to do battle with the Lincoln and Kady is set to work in the computer programming department where she learns to hack into the systems to try and find out what is really going on. First in a trilogy, Illuminae is told through hacked emails, files, maps, IMs, medical reports, interviews and AIDAN, the AI. |
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