Seventeen years ago, the fees separated themselves from the beasts. The divisions of the genders have allowed them to keep the world peaceful. Glori Rhodes is like most fees her age. She likes her neighborhood, can bench press her body weight and knows twenty-seven beast counterattack moves. Like many other fees, she never questioned why the genders are separated or the laws that govern them. However, when her mother secretly gives birth to a baby beast, Glori can't help but grow attached to the child.
When her brother, Twofer was snatched during a raid with the beast, Glori is willing to stop at nothing to save him. Glori and her best friend, Su, decide to infiltrate the City of Beasts to get her brother back. Glori thought it would be a simple grab and go mission but, quickly discovers that she is in for an adventure of a lifetime. Will Glori and Su be able to save her brother?
At first, I wasn't sure what to expect from the novel but, it turned out to be an interesting read. I like how it showed how things could have turned out if genders lived segregated lives. My favorite character was Twofer and how the bonds of love and family can change what society dictates to us. Overall, I thought the novel was enjoyable to read but, was predictable.
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About the Book:
Author: Corrie Wang
Pub. Date: September 17, 2018
Publisher: Freeform
Formats: Hardcover, eBook
Pages: 384
"If you see a beast, and you have the shot, don't hesitate.
Kill it."
For seventeen years, fees have lived separate from beasts. The
division of the sexes has kept their world peaceful. Glori Rhodes is like most
other fees her age. She adores her neighborhood's abandoned Costco, can bench
her body weight, and she knew twenty-seven beast counter attack moves by the
time she was seven. She has never questioned the separation of the sexes or the
rules that keep her post-nuclear hometown safe. But when her mother secretly
gives birth to a baby beast, Glori grows to love the child and can't help
wondering: What really is the difference between us and them?
When her brother, at the age of five, is snatched in a vicious
raid, Glori and her best friend, Su, do the unthinkable - covertly infiltrate
the City of Beasts to get him back. What's meant to be a smash-and-grab job
quickly becomes the adventure of a lifetime as the fees team up with a
fast-talking, T-shirt cannon wielding beast named Sway, and Glori starts to see
that there's more to males, and her own history, than she's been taught. Glori,
Sway, and a motley cohort of friends will go to the ends of the earth to find
her little brother. And maybe save their divided world while they're at it.
About Corrie:
Corrie Wang is
passionate about libraries, recycling, and eating all the food, everywhere.
Corrie grew up in Buffalo but spent her formative years in Brooklyn, where one
of her last paying gigs was managing a three-story nightclub on the Lower East
Side.
Writing to fix things that make her angry and explore things that
frighten her, Corrie’s novels are about girls unapologetically conquering
scenarios they should have little control over. Tired of seeing women and girls
lose in this culture - spoiler - they never do in her stories.
Her debut novel, The Takedown was chosen as one of the
best books of 2017 by the New York Public Library and a 2018 YALSA selection
for Best Fiction for Young Adults. City of Beasts is her second novel.
Seeing, as Corrie wrote an entire novel about the freakiness
and perils of socializing too much on the internets her existence there is
haphazard at best. Now, more than ever, she feels it is time for everyone
to look up. (Also stand up, step up, and eat up.
Woot!) That being said, you may follow her poor photography skillz
on INSTAGRAM.
AND P.S. Wang rhymes with 'song' y'all.
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