SHADOWS OF GLASS is the second fantastic installment in
the Ashes of Twilight Trilogy that is a must read for
fans
of dystopian fiction. This dystopian series ventures not
into the present or future, but into the past in which a
comet has caused cataclysmic changes to earth. Due to the
comet's crash, the polar ice caps have melted and changed
the landscape of many continents, causing lots of humans to
perish. When we are introduced to main character Wren
MacAvoy in the first book, we learn that she lives in a
dome, more accurately, underneath it, where her social caste
of coal miners is confined. Everyone inside the dome has
been told their entire lives that nothing but fire exists on
the outside, but Wren still dreams of freedom. Through chaos
and revolution, Wren's dream is one step closer, but is it
all that she has dreamed?
The author Kassy Tayler changes history in this mash up
of dystopian drama and steampunk adventure, with a dash of
love and confliction in the mix. At the end of the first
installment, Wren MacAvoy is taking her first steps out of
the dome and into an unknown world. From the very
beginning, life is not as idyllic as she hoped. The weight
of the consequences to the revolution she started is
weighing heavily upon her and there is a lot of
introspection. Although the amazement of the outside world
is a revelation to Wren and her group of friends, no one is
prepared for how to survive in this environment with few
resources and limited knowledge of what is around them.
With every bump in the road that is encountered, Wren
carries the burden on her own shoulders. Is freedom worth
the sacrifice: the pain, suffering, and loss that the
community of the dome has endured?
Like the flight of birds that is symbolic for freedom,
the action plunges and soars as Wren encounters the fearsome
band of rovers that have learned to survive by any means
necessary. The number one lesson on the outside is to
survive at any cost, but Wren's conscious fights her at
every turn. She is continually filled with doubt about her
choices. She remains the strong and courageous girl from the
first book, but tragedy and loss has made every decision she
makes a conflicted one. Wren's choices are hard for anyone,
let alone a sixteen year old in the throes of upheaval. It
is her commitment to caring for her fellow refugees that I
admire about the character. Readers will be enthralled with
the whole richly layered package in SHADOWS OF GLASS. This
is one dystopian steampunk, action-adventure, coming of age
love story that readers don't want to miss!
Wren's world has changed. The thing that she fought for,
escaping the dome has come to fruition, but it's not the
paradise she thought it would be. Most of the shiners have
died, and according to James, she is to blame for many of
the deaths, a burden which sits heavy on her shoulders.
Still some have survived and Wren is determined to keep them
safe as they fight to establish a home outside while hiding
from the rovers who have weapons that can kill from far
away. But as long as she has Pace she knows everything will
be fine. Still Wren wonders, as she sees the smoke that
continually pours forth from the dome, how did her friends
inside fare? Will they ever find out if Lucy, David, Jill
and Harry, along with Pace's mother survive the explosions?
Meanwhile, someone else has also seen the smoke. A band of
explorers from across the sea arrive in an airship, curious
about the dome, and offering help to those who survive. When
Wren meets the handsome Levi Addison, she suddenly questions
her love for Pace as Levi offers to show her the world from
his airship. Does she really love Pace? Or was it just the
circumstances that made her think she did? Meanwhile, word
arrives from inside via Pip, and Wren is forced to go back
inside the dome, a thing that terrifies her more than
anything else, to save her friends. Once she's back inside
will she be able to escape again?
A whirlwind of adventure, romance, conspiracy and the
struggle to stay alive in a dystopian world where nothing is
as it seems
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