![]() The Elderwomen of Lykos say that when a man is bitten by a pitviper, all the poison must be drawn out of the bite, for the poison is wicked. but Darrow's body was strong even though it was weak from his living conditions. Changing the brain, changing the bone structure, muscle mass, eyes. This means tremendous pain that many do not live through. He was drugged and taken to an order of Reds that are fighting back against the system.ĭarrow is turned from a Red into a Gold. As he was to be hanged for this, something else happened. They left them there to rot and then crushed them to dust when they were skeletons. The jerks would never let them take down the loved ones that were hanged. Then loudly she screams to all those gathered, "Break the chains!"ĭarrow had to pull her legs to break her neck. she reaches into her pocket and pulls out the haemanthus I gave her. Hang the rusty bitch lest she continue to howl." This is the girl who chooses to die for a song of death. This is the girl who wove me a wedding band of her own hair. This is the girl who danced through the smoky tav with a mane of red. And what that means is it is a forbidden song and any who sing it will be hanged.īut never has Eo been more beautiful to me than in that moment. They were both to be flogged and they were but Eo decides to sing the song of death. One sad day Eo takes Darrow to a forbidden place so he can see they are living a lie. I hate the Golds so much! The evil ones at any rate. If any of the people do anything wrong they are killed. So you have to pull the feet to break the neck. I just watched and thought it a shame that he died dancing but without his dancing shoes. My sister Leanna murmured a lament beside me. Instead, Kieran bawled like a girl when Little Eo tucked a haemanthus into Father's left workboot and ran back to her own father's side. My brother Kieran was supposed to be the stoic one. Not when the Society televised the arrest. And when they came for him, I did as he asked. The first thing you should know about me is I am my father's son. Even though they barely get by with food, etc. Below Mars these people are mostly a family. ![]() His wife Eo is wonderful but she has her own agenda. He lives underground digging the earth so other people can live. So up goes the big ole banner.ĭarrow is a Helldiver on Mars. ![]() I'm going to have to add a few spoilers with excerpts and thoughts. There are a few more but those are the mains. I have my loves: Darrow, Sevro, Mustang, Pax, Roque. When I first read the book I must have been on crack, because it went from 4 stars to 5 and my favorites list! It's bloodydamn awesome! Let me just say the second time around listening to it on audio was fanfreakingtastic! The narrator nails it and there is a song in the book and a woman sings it at the end and I got freaking chills people. Gah!! Look at the new FairyLoot Editions I got! Until the day Darrow, with the help of a mysterious group of rebels, disguises himself as a Gold and infiltrates their command school, intent on taking down his oppressors from the inside.īut the command school is a battlefield - and Darrow isn't the only student with an agenda.Įnder's Game meets The Hunger Games in this, the first in an extraordinary trilogy from an incredible new voice. A class of people who look down at Darrow and his fellows as slave labour, to be exploited and worked to death without a second thought. That Mars has been habitable - and inhabited - for generations, by a class of people calling themselves the Golds. Until the day Darrow learns that it is all a lie. The Earth is dying, and Darrow and his people are the only hope humanity has left. Just knowing that, one day, people will be able to walk the surface of the planet is enough to justify their sacrifice. Darrow is a Helldiver, one of a thousand men and women who live in the vast caves beneath the surface of Mars, generations of people who spend their lives toiling to mine the precious elements that will allow the planet to be terraformed. ![]()
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