This in partially due to the clunky beginning of the story. The first problem with this book is the blurb, which does it a disservice.

Although the book surpassed my expectations and I thoroughly enjoyed it, a couple things kept it from making it onto my favorites shelf. When I finally picked it up, I was surprised to find a unique and gripping plot with lots of action, a believable post-apocalyptic setting, and a slow-burning romance rather than insta-love. They didn’t need me to promote them, especially the newer ones. I like to try and balance my reading between different genres, and I had read so many dystopian/post-apocalyptic novels and it’s not like they weren’t flying of the shelves. My thoughts: I had pegged Under the Never Sky as a heavy romance, light dystopian read when I was putting together my “So you liked The Hunger Games” flowchart, based on the description and the reviews I read, which is why I put off reading it for so long. Their unlikely alliance forges a bond that will determine the fate of all who live under the never sky. Opposites in nearly every way, Aria and Perry must accept each other to survive. But he needs Aria’s help too she alone holds the key to his redemption. He’s wild – a savage – and her only hope of staying alive.Ī hunter for his tribe in a merciless landscape, Perry views Aria as sheltered and fragile – everything he would expect from a Dweller. She’s been taught that the very air she breathes can kill her. If the cannibals don’t get her, the violent, electrified energy storms will. This was worse.Įxiled from her home, the enclosed city of Reverie, Aria knows her chances of surviving in the outer wasteland – known as The Death Shop – are slim. Synopsis (Goodreads): Since she’d been on the outside, she’d survived an Aether storm, she’d had a knife held to her throat, and she’d seen men murdered. Published: January 3rd 2012 by HarperCollins

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