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Elysium Girls by Kate Pentecost
on Apocalyptic & Post-Apocalyptic, Fantasy, Action & Adventure, Romance, Fiction, YA
Genres: Apocalyptic & Post-Apocalyptic, Fantasy, Action & Adventure, Romance
Pages: 304
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Also by this author: Elysium Girls
Find the Book: Amazon | Barnes & Noble
ISBN: 9781368044356
From a lush, dazzlingly original new voice in young adult fantasy comes an epic clash of witches, gods and demons as the fate of humanity hangs in the balance.
Elysium, Oklahoma, is a town like any other. Respectable. God-fearing. Praying for an end to the Dust Bowl. Until the day the people of Elysium are chosen by two sisters: Life and Death. And the Sisters like to gamble against each other with things like time, and space, and human lives. Elysium is to become the gameboard in a ruthless competition between the goddesses. The Dust Soldiers will return in ten years' time, and if the people of Elysium have not proved themselves worthy, all will be slain.
Nearly ten years later, seventeen-year-old Sal Wilkinson is called upon to lead Elysium as it prepares for the end of the game. But then an outsider named Asa arrives at Elysium's gates with nothing more than a sharp smile and a bag of magic tricks, and they trigger a terrible accident that gets both Sal and Asa exiled into the brutal Desert of Dust and Steel. There Sal and Asa stumble upon a gang of girls headed by another exile: a young witch everyone in Elysium believes to be dead. As the apocalypse looms, they must do more than simply tip the scales in Elysium's favor -- only by reinventing the rules can they beat Life and Death at their own game in this exciting fantasy debut.
Welcome to Monday Reads! Where I just spend a few minutes sharing with you my current read and maybe a snippet or two from my current chapter. Please let me know what you’re reading right now too!
Gosh, y’all! At the time of typing this, I’m reading, like, five books! I know… But, I have a lot of reviews coming up soon so I’m trying to stay ahead of things and get some reading of old favorites in. But, this week I’ll be sharing with you from a book that I’m really loving so far!
I vaguely remembered reading something about trapdoor spells further back in the Booke. They could be set up from anywhere, but they relied on a Mater Stone that you charged your power into. Multiple spells could be charged into one Master Stone too, or so I’d read. These were Mother Morevna’s specialty. I wondered how many more trapdoor spells were laid around the city, how many I walked over every day.
Elysium Girls, 29%
Mother Morevna raised her cold gray eyes to mine, her expression unreadable.
“That is brilliant,” she said.
My heart thudded in disbelief. “It is?” I said, still reeling. “Th-thank you.”
Elysium Girls, 29%
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About Kate Pentecost
Kate Pentecost was born and raised on the Texas/Louisiana border, where ghosts and rural legends lurk in the pines and nothing is completely as it seems.
She holds an MFA in Writing for Children &Young Adults from Vermont College of Fine Arts. She was recently nominated for a Rhysling award for her poem "Small Town Witches."
Her debut novel, Elysium Girls, is forthcoming from Disney Hyperion in 2020 in print and audio formats.
She is obsessed with the Romantic Poets and can be identified by the enormous tattoo of Percy Bysshe Shelley on her arm. She lives in Houston (H-Town, Space City, etc.)
