The Outsiders have banded into tribes and are led by Blood Lords. It's a kill or be killed world wholly at the mercy of the tempestuous, Aether-filled skies. The Outside world is about as different from cushy, technologically advanced Reverie as you can get. He has a butt of a brother, Vale, who is the leader of their tribe, even though Perry wants to be the leader, and a nephew he loves more than anything. He has a lot of growing up to do, but he's so strong and loyal and brave. well, let's all have a moment of silence in which we appreciate Perry. The duplicitous Hess, councilman of Reverie, pins the blame on Aria and boots her out into a harsh and brutal wasteland where she's certain to die. It's as the story progressed that I became invested. Then we switch over to Perry's world, and they're tossing around terminology (Auds and Scires and Blood Lords and whaaaa my braaaain) like you totally know what's going on, and I was like, 'I DO NOT GET.' Her best friend dies in the opening scene (not a spoiler-it's the opening scene) and I didn't care, because I didn't have a connection to any of these people. I wanted a little bit of a sense of Aria's life in the Realms-virtual realities where you can go anywhere, anyplace, anytime-and her personality when she's not on the run for her life, and a sense of her friendships. I though the book should have started earlier. We first meet Aria in the worst moment of her life so far-the day disaster strikes and she's banished from her enclosed, protective pod.

While this, the first book in the series, is the weakest of the trilogy, it is still overflowing with danger, lush and evocative writing, tremendous characters, romance, and Roar. Well, I'm glad to say that my close blogger friends were right. 'OH MY GOD THIS SERIES! Just wait until you meet Roar! Book Two is even better! DID I MENTION ROAR?' The vast majority of my close bloggers friends have been screaming at me about this book. I can't believe I waited so long to star this series. Unlikely alliance forges a bond that will determine the fate of all who Opposites in nearlyĮvery way, Aria and Perry must accept each other to survive. Help too she alone holds the key to his redemption. Merciless landscape, Perry views Aria as sheltered andįragile-everything he would expect from a Dweller.

She's been taught that the very air she breathes can kill her. The cannibals don't get her, the violent, electrified energy storms Surviving in the outer wasteland-known as The Death Shop-are slim. Held to her throat, and she'd seen men murdered.įrom her home, the enclosed city of Reverie, Aria knows her chances of I binge-read the ENTIRE series in a couple of days.īeen on the outside, she'd survived an Aether storm, she'd had a knife Rating: It took me a bit to get into it, but once I was, OH BOY. Series: #1 in the Under the Never Sky trilogy Review: Under the Never Sky by Veronica Rossi

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