Black City (Black City #1)
by Elizabeth Richards
Published November 13th 2012
by G.P. Putnam's Sons BYR
Thoughts:
I was worried that the starcrossed love story between a half- darkling and a human would bore me to death. Luckily it is not love at first sight for these two and it took some time for them to develop their feelings towards each other despite their intense attraction to one another.
The problem is I never found vampires or darklings (as they are referred to in this book) to be very em...attractive. So I must say I don't get what drew Natalie to Ash. He drinks blood and bites people to make them high as if in a drug induced haze in order to earn some money to support his troubled family. He's also rude and overbearing. Granted he had a very rough and unusual upbringing being the only son of a human minister and a female Darkling who is now suffering from a dangerous plague that turns Darklings into creepy zombies.
The dystopian world created by Elizabeth Richards is very remniscent of the world found in Legend or even The Hunger Games. The United Sentry States are divided into nine megastates and each of them are controlled by an Emissary. As the daughter to the Emissary of Black City, Natalie is trapped under her mother's expectations for her to be a part of the government in the future. But Natalie is haunted by memories of her father's violent death and also felt responsible for her sister's catatonic state. To make matters even worst, her ex-boyfriend who cheated on her is appointed as her bodyguard to ensure her safety.
So with all that emotional upheavel, our two lovers must also deal with the growing tension between the oppressed Darklings and the ruling Sentry and also the evil plot that Purian Rose; the sinister and maniacal leader of the United Sentry States is planning for the future. This story is certainly dark and felt a bit deppressing at times but since I'm rather engrossed with the many conflicts that surrounded the two lovers, I'm very curious as to how they will turn out in the next book.
Verdict: 3 stars.
In my Debut Author Reading Challenge
Available on: Amazon
Summary from Goodreads:
A dark and tender post-apocalyptic love story set in the aftermath of a bloody war.
In a city where humans and Darklings are now separated by a high wall and tensions between the two races still simmer after a terrible war, sixteen-year-olds Ash Fisher, a half-blood Darkling, and Natalie Buchanan, a human and the daughter of the Emissary, meet and do the unthinkable—they fall in love. Bonded by a mysterious connection that causes Ash’s long-dormant heart to beat, Ash and Natalie first deny and then struggle to fight their forbidden feelings for each other, knowing if they’re caught, they’ll be executed—but their feelings are too strong.
When Ash and Natalie then find themselves at the center of a deadly conspiracy that threatens to pull the humans and Darklings back into war, they must make hard choices that could result in both their deaths.
Thoughts:
I was worried that the starcrossed love story between a half- darkling and a human would bore me to death. Luckily it is not love at first sight for these two and it took some time for them to develop their feelings towards each other despite their intense attraction to one another.
The problem is I never found vampires or darklings (as they are referred to in this book) to be very em...attractive. So I must say I don't get what drew Natalie to Ash. He drinks blood and bites people to make them high as if in a drug induced haze in order to earn some money to support his troubled family. He's also rude and overbearing. Granted he had a very rough and unusual upbringing being the only son of a human minister and a female Darkling who is now suffering from a dangerous plague that turns Darklings into creepy zombies.
The dystopian world created by Elizabeth Richards is very remniscent of the world found in Legend or even The Hunger Games. The United Sentry States are divided into nine megastates and each of them are controlled by an Emissary. As the daughter to the Emissary of Black City, Natalie is trapped under her mother's expectations for her to be a part of the government in the future. But Natalie is haunted by memories of her father's violent death and also felt responsible for her sister's catatonic state. To make matters even worst, her ex-boyfriend who cheated on her is appointed as her bodyguard to ensure her safety.
So with all that emotional upheavel, our two lovers must also deal with the growing tension between the oppressed Darklings and the ruling Sentry and also the evil plot that Purian Rose; the sinister and maniacal leader of the United Sentry States is planning for the future. This story is certainly dark and felt a bit deppressing at times but since I'm rather engrossed with the many conflicts that surrounded the two lovers, I'm very curious as to how they will turn out in the next book.
Verdict: 3 stars.
In my Debut Author Reading Challenge
Available on: Amazon
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