Feeling rejected, Charlie, an artist, is drawn into a destructive new relationship with her sexy older co-worker, a "semifamous" local musician who's obviously a junkie alcoholic. But things don't go as planned in the Arizona desert, because sweet Mikey just wants to be friends. After spending time in treatment with other young women like her-who cut, burn, poke, and otherwise hurt themselves-Charlie is released and takes a bus from the Twin Cities to Tucson to be closer to Mikey, a boy she "like-likes" but who had pined for Ellis instead. Seventeen-year-old Charlie Davis, a white girl living on the margins, thinks she has little reason to live: her father drowned himself her bereft and abusive mother kicked her out her best friend, Ellis, is nearly brain dead after cutting too deeply and she's gone through unspeakable experiences living on the street. Personal and cultural complexities distinguish this fresh and fascinating look at a lawless future.Īfter surviving a suicide attempt, a fragile teen isn't sure she can endure without cutting herself. Most fascinatingly, the author creates a multicultural world led by two women of color-Asian-American Cassandra and ethnically ambiguous Santa Elena-who are larger than life without resorting to stereotypes. Even as the author offers pure speculative fiction, she also gives readers a terrifically believable heroine with Cassandra, who makes some all-too-human decisions to survive.
Somehow, the pirate leader secures her own marine escort and coerces Cassandra to rear the creature.
Cassandra hesitates too long in killing herself, per her dad’s instruction in order to keep the proprietary secrets, and Santa Elena captures her. On her first voyage, her first Reckoner, a terrapoid-a half-turtle, half–marine iguana hybrid “the size of a football field” and named Durga-is killed while trying to protect her assigned ship from the attack of the pirate leader Santa Elena. Cassandra, like her dad, trains the aquatic escorts. The governments hire businesses like the one owned by Cassandra Leung’s mom, which create genetically modified sea monsters called Reckoners to destroy the pirates and their vessels. Pirates, quite a few who are born on sovereign flotillas, are the new world threat. In Skrutskie’s debut, swelling seas and a one-world government rearrange national boundaries. Can she resist the adrenaline rush of a pirate’s life to keep the world aright? The world’s geopolitical balance rests on a genetically modified sea monster and his 17 1/2–year-old trainer.
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