City of beasts

Title:

City of beasts

Author:

Summary:

For seventeen years the division of the sexes has kept the post-nuclear world peaceful. Glori Rhodes is like most other fees her age: she can bench her body weight, and knew beast counter attack moves by the time she was seven. When her mother gives birth to a baby beast, Glori can't help wondering: What really is the difference between us and them? At five years of age her brother is snatched in a raid. Glori and her friend, Su, infiltrate the City of Beasts to get him back. Glori, Sway, and a motley cohort of friends will go to the ends of the earth to find her little brother... and maybe save their divided world while they're at it. -- Adapted from jacket.

Edition:

First edition.

Physical Description:

374 pages : map ; 22 cm

Genre:

Fantasy fiction.

Apocalyptic fiction.

Subject Term:

Misogyny -- Fiction.

Missing persons -- Fiction.

Publisher:

Freeform Books,

Publication Date:

2019

ISBN:

9781368026628

Publication Information:

Los Angeles ; New York : Freeform Books, 2019.

Call Number:

YA WANG

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Summary

A teenage girl living in a post-nuclear town embarks on a quest to save her brother from the other side of a divided world in this dystopian adventure novel for fans of Meg Rosoff's How I Live Now . For seventeen years, fees have lived separate from beasts. The division of the sexes has kept their world peaceful. Glori Rhodes is like most other fees her age. She adores her neighborhood's abandoned Costco, can bench her body weight, and she knew twenty-seven beast counterattack moves by the time she was seven. She has never questioned the separation of the sexes or the rules that keep her post-nuclear hometown safe. But when her mother secretly gives birth to a baby beast, Glori grows to love the child and can't help wondering: What really is the difference between us and them ? When her brother, at the age of five, is snatched in a vicious raid, Glori and her best friend, Su, do the unthinkable -- covertly infiltrate the City of Beasts to get him back. What's meant to be a smash-and-grab job quickly becomes the adventure of a lifetime as the fees team up with a fast-talking, T-shirt cannon-wielding beast named Sway, and Glori starts to see that there's more to males, and her own history, than she's been taught.

Author Notes

Corrie Wang owns and operates Jackrabbit Filly, a friendly neighborhood restaurant in Charleston, South Carolina. She is passionate about libraries, recycling, and eating all the food, everywhere. Her previous novel, The Takedown , received much love from the New York Public Library and YALSA. She and her husband, Shuai, live in a cozy yellow house with their pups, Moose and Olive. To find out very little about her, visit corriewang.com or follow her on Instagram @corrie_wang.

Reviews (2)

School Library Journal Review

Gr 10 Up--In a postapocalyptic Western New York, women (fees) live on Grand Island and men (beasts) in Buffalo, separated not only by a river, but also by fear and desire for power. Glori and her family hide a dangerous secret that threatens them all--a little brother she adores, born of a horrific incident that has left her mother without a voice. When he is kidnapped by the beasts, Glori and her best friend do the forbidden by crossing the river to find him. Raised to hate and fight against beasts, they are leery of men in general, but if they don't trust the ones who truly want to help, finding Two Five will be impossible. Wang creates believable young characters who, while products of their elders and environments, learn to trust themselves and each other to forge a meaningful path toward a peaceful partnership, both during the events of the story and in their shared future. Explicit violence, language, and sexual references make this exploration of gender relations and survival behavior a better fit for mature readers. VERDICT Readers who enjoy the fast-paced desperation of Jay Kristoff's "Lifelike" series and Meg Rosoff's How I Live Now will appreciate the pulse-pounding intensity of this thriller.--Kerry Sutherland, Akron-Summit County Public Library, OH

Publisher's Weekly Review

After a nuclear event leaves the world in ruins, the women ("fees") of Buffalo gather for safety and form a women's-only community on an isolated island. Glori, granddaughter of the community's founder, is part of the last generation of children born before radiation caused widespread sterility. Though she has been raised to fear and protect herself against the male "beasts" across the water, she has a soft spot for her little brother, Twofer, born under mysterious circumstances and kept a secret. When the beasts take him, she sets off to bring him back, encountering some men who are just as bad as she expected. But she also finds kindness and generosity, especially from Sway, the boy who becomes her guide to the world outside her island, and together they discover that people of all genders are capable of monstrous acts as well as comfort and kindness. As Glori and Sway grow closer, they begin to imagine their city united, but first they'll have to foil a plot to kill every beast in Buffalo. A page-turning dystopian novel that explores the divisions that differences can engender and the things that can, sometimes, mend them. Ages 14--up. Agent: Sarah Burnes, the Gernert Company. (Sept.)