
The Fire Sermon
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Narrated by:
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Lauren Fortgang
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By:
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Francesca Haig
The Hunger Games meets Cormac McCarthy's The Road in this richly imagined first novel in a new postapocalyptic trilogy by award-winning poet Francesca Haig.
Four hundred years in the future, the Earth has turned primitive following a nuclear fire that laid waste to civilization and nature. Though the radiation fallout has ended, for some unknowable reason every person is born with a twin. Of each pair one is an Alpha - physically perfect in every way - and the other an Omega burdened with deformity, small or large.
With the Council ruling an apartheid-like society, Omegas are branded and ostracized while the Alphas have gathered the world’s sparse resources for themselves. Though proclaiming their superiority, for all their effort Alphas cannot escape one harsh fact: Whenever one twin dies, so does the other. Cass is a rare Omega, one burdened with psychic foresight. While her twin, Zach, gains power on the Alpha Council, she dares to dream the most dangerous dream of all: equality. For daring to envision a world in which Alphas and Omegas live side by side as equals, both the Council and the Resistance have her in their sights.
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Great story, amazing development, horrific dialogu
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It was just ok
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Awesome
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predictableWhat three words best describe Lauren Fortgang’s performance?
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Not really, don't know what else they could bring inSlow moving story line
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love it!
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Hoping there is a sequel coming.
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W😰W!
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a good beginning to the series
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What stood for me the most was the beginning in how the protagonist describes how everyone is born with a twin and the sets of twins are separated at some point in their lives according to their traits (normal or mutant). This sounds so much like a part of Stephen King's book: Wolves of the Calla where sets of twins are also separated. The author, Francesca Haig, even writes how riders on horses come to take a twin away (much like what happens in Wolves of the Calla). It made me wonder if this is where Haig got the general idea for her story. In Haig's story, the twins are separated into Alphas and Omegas. The Alphas are the royalty and Omegas the peasantry. One interesting aspect is that the twins remained linked forever and if a twin dies, the other twins dies. If one feels pain, the other feels pain.
The protagonist discovers that she has a power as a seer and for that she is imprisoned and tortured to try and "see" into the future. She escapes and meets up with another Omega twin and they take off together in search of a safe haven. Here's where you get into the "run-of-the-mill" type of story. The characters inexplicably are able to ride horses, despite never haven ridden before. They meet up with various groups who are either friend or foe or both. There wasn't much that stood out in the story as it's all been told before. It's the same tried and true story arc that so many of these types of novels go through.
Of course, it ends in a manner that hints at a sequel (as most of these types of books do these days) but I didn't find it interesting enough to care if there is a sequel. Not the best. Not the worst. Just kind of mediocre.
Run of the mill
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Ally
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