Elysium Girls, written by Kate Pentecost, is an exciting young adult fantasy that will be released on April 14, 2020 and is published by Disney Hyperion. A journey like no others, this book will keep on the edge of your seat.
Thank you so much, Disney Hyperion and the author, for the gifted e-copy! I loved this book. The book review expressed my own opinion and this tour is hosted by the FFBC Tours.
Synopsis – Elysium Girls by Kate Pentecost
In this sweeping Dust Bowl-inspired fantasy, a ten-year game between Life and Death pits the walled Oklahoma city of Elysium-including a girl gang of witches and a demon who longs for humanity-against the supernatural in order to judge mankind.
When Sal is named Successor to Mother Morevna, a powerful witch and leader of Elysium, she jumps at the chance to prove herself to the town. Ever since she was a kid, Sal has been plagued by false visions of rain, and though people think she’s a liar, she knows she’s a leader. Even the arrival of enigmatic outsider Asa-a human-obsessed demon in disguise-doesn’t shake her confidence in her ability. Until a terrible mistake results in both Sal and Asa’s exile into the Desert of Dust and Steel.
Face-to-face with a brutal, unforgiving landscape, Sal and Asa join a gang of girls headed by another Elysium exile-and young witch herself-Olivia Rosales. In order to atone for their mistake, they create a cavalry of magic-powered, scrap metal horses to save Elysium from the coming apocalypse. But Sal, Asa, and Olivia must do more than simply tip the scales in Elysium’s favor-only by reinventing the rules can they beat the Life and Death at their own game.
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Review
This story has a very interesting plot. Two powerful Gods one day decide to play a game with nothing else than human lives. They have 10 years to create a prosperous city putting aside a certain amount of food by the time they return. If they succeed, they live. If not, well, we all know where this goes.
And enter Sal Wilkerson, an outcast who grew up in this city, and Asa, a new addition to the city who holds secrets of his own. An unfortunate series of events bring these two together and only with a few months left before the end of the game, everything goes wrong.
Banished from the city, they will meet one heck of a group that will change the game.
There are many things that I enjoyed in this book. The first part was a wonderful way to set up the story. The world-building breaks a few standards on family and brings some diversity.
I tried to imagine how, as a society, we would react if we lived constantly under the threat of death. A one-goal kind of existence. I still don’t know what would happen, but every time the town would react, I thought how horrible they were behaving.
Sal is a wonderful character who grows a great deal in this book. Asa is a very unique and interesting character. I grew fond of their friendship. Lucy is another character I enjoyed reading about. The magic system is very interesting too. I enjoyed learning about it and how it helped Sal in her journey.
The rest of the book has a different dynamic and oh wow, I loved it. Sal and Asa meet a group of badass girls who lives in very precarious environment and is making the best of it in a way. Olivia is one I enjoyed reading about too.
The plot twists are simply amazing. There were moments I knew something big was coming, but I still didn’t see it coming. This is not a love story though, there is a bit of it in this book. I felt this book stronger on friendship, self discovery, and how to fight for what you believe.
This book is definitely one I recommend.
Rating: ⭐️⭐️⭐️⭐️
About the author: Kate Pentecost
Kate Pentecost was born and raised on the Texas/Louisiana border, where ghosts and rural legends lurk in the pines and nothing is completely as it seems.
She holds an MFA in Writing for Children &Young Adults from Vermont College of Fine Arts. She was recently nominated for a Rhysling award for her poem “Small Town Witches.”
Her debut novel, Elysium Girls, is forthcoming from Disney Hyperion in 2020 in print and audio formats.
She is obsessed with the Romantic Poets and can be identified by the enormous tattoo of Percy Bysshe Shelley on her arm. She lives in Houston (H-Town, Space City, etc.)
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havent seen this book before but love the premise – will check it out
It was a nice read. I hadn’t heard of it before either, but a nice found.
Nice review!
Thank you!! 😊
These all sound so good! I gave up trying to apply to blog tours after noting how the same accounts are essentially used each time 😂