Filled with literary and artistic allusions (some of which diverge in the dual Chicagos), the action-packed narrative poses thorny ethical questions as Darcy wrestles with bigotry, identity, belonging, and love. Conn takes Darcy from “the Alter” (her Chicago) to a parallel version of the city where Shades operate as terrorists and live in a Shadow Society. Not just a love interest, Conn also presents a real threat as he reveals that Darcy is actually a Shade, an ethereal creature who can “ghost and manifest” (disappear and reappear). Just as things are stabilizing for Darcy-she’s honing her talent for art and has a loyal group of outsider friends-an intense new boy at her high school, Conn McCrea, fixates on her. Since then, Darcy has lived in multiple foster homes, accumulating a thick behavioral file. In this smart, compulsively readable novel, master storyteller Marie Rutkoski has crafted an utterly original world, characters you wont soon forget, and a tale full of intrigue and suspense.

What she finds out will change her world forever. Sixteen-year-old Darcy Jones remembers nothing of her life before she was abandoned in front of a Chicago firehouse at age five. Darcy decides to infiltrate the Shadow Society and uncover the Shades latest terrorist plot. In this smart, compulsively readable novel, master storyteller Marie Rutkoski has crafted an utterly original world, characters you won’t soon forget, and a tale full of intrigue and suspense.Rutkoski returns with a gripping and intelligent thriller, invoking the kind of space-time twists familiar to fans of her Kronos Chronicles. What she finds out will change her world forever. Marie Rutkoski is the author of The Winners Curse, The Winners Crime, The Shadow Society, and the Kronos Chronicles, which includes The Cabinet of Wonders. Darcy decides to infiltrate the Shadow Society and uncover the Shades’ latest terrorist plot. courierdusters reblogged this from gwinnetts-archive arcanvm-arcanorum liked this helloworld5sblog liked this averagehumanthings reblogged this from. As if she were his enemy.When Conn betrays Darcy, she realizes that she can’t rely on anything-not herself, not the laws of nature, and certainly not him. It doesn’t line up with the way he first looked at her.

Rutkoski is currently a professor at Brooklyn College. She has never really belonged anywhere-but she couldn’t have guessed that she comes from an alternate world where the Great Chicago Fire didn’t happen and deadly creatures called Shades terrorize the human population.Memories begin to haunt Darcy when a new boy arrives at her high school, and he makes her feel both desire and desired in a way she hadn’t thought possible. Marie Rutkoski is the author of The Winners Trilogy, The Kronos Chronicles, and The Shadow Society. Annotation: Darcy Jones doesn’t remember anything before the day she was abandoned as a child outside a Chicago firehouse.

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