The well-drawn worlds, political undercurrents and the believability of the characters make it all feel fresh. Although the trope is familiar - the tough, underclass survivor battling a pampered aristocrat for the love of a young woman caught in the middle - Lu’s sharp dissection of the class dynamics make it more precarious for the characters and more interesting for us.
The setup provides the story with a taut love triangle. There, she gets involved with Anden, the handsome head of the Republic that June has been assigned to help assassinate for the Patriots’ slippery leader, Razor. The two become entangled with ruthless rebel group the Patriots, who force June to go undercover, moving back into the chic penthouse power center of the Republic. They travel from a bizarre future Vegas, now a military capital that brings together combat maneuvers with the city’s more familiar nocturnal delights, to the war front in snowy Colorado. Spock, June thinks: “My heart flips in excitement at the desire in his voice - but, at the same time, the technical part of my brain instantly flares up.
June’s analytic side makes romance a challenge, even when they get the chance to get hot and heavy and Day confesses his feelings. June was determined to eliminate Day, whom she presumed to be her brother’s murderer - until, that is, she met him, a rough-hewn lady-killer with part-Mongolian good looks and striking long white-blond hair.Īs “Prodigy” opens, former foes Day and June, after creating a complicated alliance shot through with uneasy passion in the first book, are on the run together. Day served as a hero for the downtrodden masses in the slums, a filthy Hobbesian netherworld in which life is so nasty and brutish that a short life span can be seen as a blessing. “Legend” was a two-character collision: High-rise dweller June - a calculating, beautiful military prodigy who lost both of her parents while young - went hunting after Day, a good-natured street kid who happened to be the sinister government’s most wanted criminal. It has all the chivalry of “Robin Hood” and all the shine and grime of “Blade Runner.” While most of “The Hunger Games” takes place in a pseudo-pastoral setting, this series is decidedly set in an urban jungle.
Her vision of a dystopian Los Angeles - which resembles Silver Lake transformed into what seems like oceanfront property by global warming - made it feel chillingly real, like any city dweller’s worst nightmare.
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