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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