Their voices are distinct and richly drawn, from Day’s self-deprecating affection for others to June's Holmesian attention to detail. In alternating first-person narratives, Day and June experience coming-of-age adventures in the midst of spying, theft and daredevil combat. When tragedies strike both their families, the two brilliant teens are thrown into direct opposition. He's also the Republic's most wanted criminal, prone to stealing from the rich and giving to the poor. Day, on the other hand, is an anonymous street rat, a slum child who failed his own Trial. She looks forward to the day when she can join up and fight the Republic’s treacherous enemies east of the Dakotas.
June is rich and brilliant, the only candidate ever to get a perfect score in the Trials, and is destined for a glowing career in the military. As if that weren't complicated enough, Amy does see a ghost is he the Mad Monk?Ī gripping thriller in dystopic future Los Angeles.įifteen-year-olds June and Day live completely different lives in the glorious Republic. Before their heated arguments can turn to something more, Amy and Ben had better solve the mystery of The Mad Monk of McCulloch Ranch, who's been conking people over the head. Amy first meets Ben while she's chasing escaped goats and wearing nothing but cherry-spotted undies and rubber boots: an introduction worthy of the best contemporary adult romance. Meanwhile, Amy spars with cranky young rancher Ben, whose land entirely surrounds Aunt Hyacinth's tiny farm. She protects her family of eccentrics, making sure that outsiders see Amy's sister Phin as a whiz with physics and chemistry, rather than a genius with the potions and spells of preternatural science.
Unlike the rest of the Goodnights-witches or psychics all-Amy intends to succeed in the mundane world. The summer after high school, Amy Goodnight is taking care of Aunt Hyacinth's herb farm. You can't get much more Nancy Drew than intrepid Texan heroines uncovering a mystery involving ranchers, Spanish ghosts, vandalized archaeological digs and lumps of gold. A pragmatic heroine must confront her magical side to save the day, find the ghost, win the boy and corral the goats.
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