Taylor’s lengthy, mesmerizing epic offers an exotic Middle Eastern–esque world with invented words, biology, and mythology, populated by near-humans and strange creatures. Besides literal ghosts, Weep is also haunted by loss-lost memories, lost history, and lost half-blood children. Red-haired, blue-skinned 17-year-old Sarai is a dreamer like Lazlo but fears nightmares even as she inflicts them on the citizens below. But the long-silent structure instead holds five surviving godspawn, gifted offspring of captured humans and cruel gods, equally traumatized by the massacre. Seeking to restore the skies to Weep, reluctant leader Eril-Fane recruits scientists from the world beyond Weep-and bemusedly welcomes Lazlo-to move the allegedly abandoned citadel. Fifteen years ago, the Godslayer Eril-Fane ended their reign of terror with the Carnage, and now the city is known only as Weep. Two hundred years ago, six merciless, magic-wielding Mesarthim landed their seraphim-shaped citadel in the legendary city, blocking its skies and cutting it off from the outside world. Twenty-year-old orphaned librarian Lazlo Strange, whose brutish exterior conceals his cleverness, dreams of stories of a lost city. YA)Ī young man and woman dream amid violence’s aftermath in this intense series opener. Graphic sex, rape, drugs, bitter loneliness, despair-and eventually, blessedly, glimmers of hope.
It doesn’t matter that the first-person voices blur, because the stories are distinct and unmistakable. Clinging to / the eye of the tornado.” Hopkins’s pithy free verse reveals shards of emotion and quick glimpses of physical detail. Cody’s in Vegas, already drugging and gambling but crushed when his stepfather dies. In California, Whitney craves male attention, while Ginger realizes that the rapes she’s endured throughout childhood were orchestrated by her mother for cash. In Boise, Eden’s first romantic relationship spurs her “hellfire-and-brimstone-preaching” Pentecostal parents to declare, “You are obviously possessed by demons,” and send her to Tears of Zion reform camp, where unwilling sex is her only hope for escape. Indiana farm boy Seth is kicked off his family’s farm for being gay optionless, he follows a controlling sugar daddy to Vegas. Hopkins sharply portrays extreme adolescent turbulence with her biggest cast yet, as five disparate, desperate teens are sucked into the Las Vegas world of selling sex.
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