
by Hayley Barrett.
Audience/Genre: Young Adult, Dystopian.
Publication: August 17th 2015 by Double Dragon Publishing.
Fifteen-year-old Alexandra Spencer’s life was not supposed to turn out this way. She was not supposed to go on trial for a crime she did not commit. She was not supposed to be found guilty. And she was not supposed to be sent to Elder Grey Detention Centre, a place of horrors many don’t survive.
She is however, supposed to be the daughter of the wealthiest, most influential man in the post-apocalyptic New Zealand city of New Phoenix.
But apparently, she isn’t.
Shell-shocked and struggling to understand why she is no longer a member of the city’s ruling family, Alexandra is torn from her privileged life by the churlish young guard, Will Metcalfe, and forced to trek for three weeks through deadly wilderness to her place of imprisonment. Her journey with Will is a constant battle for survival, where she is never sure who is the real enemy. It is also journey into the truth about the safe and lavish world from which she has been cast. Through Will, she learns of a mutant race called Drifters living in the wilderness who are being preyed upon by New Phoenix’s guards—Drifter’s blood being a life saving cure-all elixir for the city’s inhabitants.
As Alex struggles to cope with her new life in Elder Grey, an act of friendship ends in tragedy. When someone she thought was an enemy pulls her from her despair, Alex discovers that old friends cannot be trusted, prejudice is another word for fear, and trust, not blood ties, make a family.
When Will spoke, his voice was low, menacing, and far more terrifying than the blade he held to my neck. "I don’t appreciate being woken in the middle of the night to chase a Princess from the City around the bush, because she wants to stretch her legs." He looked at me with disgust. "I should take you straight to Eton. It’s what you deserve."
I shrugged my shoulders. Frankly, I’d rather he took me to Eton. I felt safer with him—he seemed the kinder of the two.
Will narrowed his eyes. "You have no idea. Eton’s not the saint you think he is. You’re just lucky it wasn’t him that found you."
"Lucky?" My voice returned at Will’s insinuation. "I’m lucky to have a knife pointing at my throat?" I sounded far braver than I felt, and the annoyed look in Will’s eyes as I spoke sent a shimmer of satisfaction through me. There was no need for him to know how petrified I was right now.
"Be glad that’s all it’s doing."
Something in his words didn’t ring true. "You won’t kill me, neither will Eton."
Will raised an eyebrow as if considering, and a threatening smile grew on his lips. True. "But we don’t have to kill you to make our point." The tip of his knife nicked my skin sending a trickle of blood dribbling down my neck.
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Hayley Barrett began writing in the aftermath of the devastating Christchurch earthquakes of2010 and 2011 as a way of escaping from the ongoing terror of the natural disaster. Not totally happy with her efforts, in 2012 she commenced a novel writing course. Into Darkness, her first novel, is the result of the course and two years hard work.
Hayley lives in Rolleston, ten minutes south of Christchurch, New Zealand, with her husband and three children. When she isn’t driving her kids to their sports practices, games and other after school activities, she enjoys playing squash, relaxing in the sun and reading. Most days she wishes there were more hours available to spend writing
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