Grace is one of many raised as an "Angel," whose purpose is
to strap explosives to their legs and bring about death as
suicide bombers. These Angels are taught that life means
death and they are, for the most part, content with that
without question. Grace is not the perfect Angel.
Escaping death while her bomb kills 34 people, Grace
chooses to live and begins her trek by train to flee the
control of self-imposed leader Keran Berj. Accompanying
Grace to the border is Jerusha, who was responsible in
condemning his parents to death. Both are seeking freedom
after questioning the purpose of their own existence.
I found GRACE to be an extremely disturbing and dark book.
Indicated as an appropriate book for ages 14 and up, I
would not be pleased to have my child read this. It is
intended to be an awakening, I believe, for identifying
personal worth and value in a human being, but it was a
confusing read.
Grace was raised to be an Angel, a herald of death by
suicide bomb. But she refuses to die for the cause, and
now Grace is on the run, daring to dream of freedom. In
search of a border she may never reach, she travels among
malevolent soldiers on a decrepit train crawling through
the desert. Accompanied by the mysterious Kerr, Grace
struggles to be invisible, but the fear of discovery looms
large as she recalls the history and events that delivered
her uncertain fate.
Told in spare, powerful prose by
acclaimed author Elizabeth Scott, this tale of a dystopian
near future will haunt readers long after theyAve reached
the final page.
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