Title: Edge of Truth
By Natasha Hanova
Published: June 6th, 2013 by Sapphire Star Publishing
Blurb:
Citizens who report to work on time, obey the Overlord's laws, and stay off the Synbot's radar, live long lives. Long, dull, monotonous lives.
It's not a bad plan for someone with a hidden, emotion-based ability to trigger earthquakes. In a world pitted against her, sixteen-year-old Rena Moon strives for a life beyond working herself to death at the factory. Seeing an alternative, she risks selling relics from the forbidden lands at Market. It becomes the worst decision she ever made. Someone kidnaps her best friend in exchange for the one thing that would end her oppression.
Driven by loyalty, Rena and seventeen-year-old Nevan Jelani, soulful composer, green thumb extraordinaire, and the secret love of her life, plot to rescue her friend and reclaim her salvage. Still, the thought lingers whether Nevan is a true hero or another thief waiting for his chance at her loot. Events spin wildly, deepening Rena's suspicions and pushing her limit of control. With more than her chance for freedom at stake, she must decide if she's willing to kill to protect what's precious to her. For once, the Overlord isn't holding all the power, but can Rena live with being reduced to what she's trying so hard to escape?
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My Review:
I received a free copy of the book from the author for my honest opinion.
Sixteen year old Rena Moon tries very hard to obey all the laws and stay out of trouble. She tries hard to follow all of the Overlord's laws and not get caught by a synbot doing something wrong. She works her butt off at the factory hoping that one day she will have enough money to buy herself and her family a new home. Rena lives in what is sort of known as the poor part of town and she wants to move on up the ladder of society. But Rena gets very frustrated a lot. But you can understand why she gets upset sometimes with having to help her Dad raise her twin brothers with her Mother being dead. Oh they do have a woman that lives with them. She had nowhere to go when she lost her home so Rena's Dad let her move in with them. She does a lot for Rena and her father with helping to take care of her brothers. But she is always making Rena late when she is supposed to be meeting her best friend Blaze with a lot of "can yous?" with the boys. You know like can you help them put their shoes on? Or can you help them put their coats on? Just a whole lot of "can yous"?
I can't blame Rena for getting frustrated so much with having lost her mother and with the life that she has now been dealt. It is very hard just being a teenager alone much less having to help raise your little brothers and work too. A teenager's body is going through changes sort of like middle aged people go through. Or that is how I look at it. With being a teenager you are no longer a child but yet at the same time you are not an adult either. Rena is has these special abilities where she can make earthquakes happen when she gets upset. So when she needs to blow off a little steam sometimes she goes out to the badlands, a place that no one is supposed to go to. Rena could get into a lot of trouble or even lose her life if she ever gets caught out in the badlands. But kids and teenagers need to blow off a little steam sometimes just like adults do. So Rena has found relief by going to the badlands to get away from everything and to blow off some of that steam by setting off earthquakes. Rena and her best friend Blaze go out to the badlands one day and Rena causes an earthquake which opens up a cave. They find a lot of old stuff in the caves that could make them very rich and Rena could buy that house she has been wanting for a long time.
But when Rena and Blaze take some of it to the market to sell someone is watching them and wants to know where they got all the antiques. With Blaze being the best deal maker of the two and the one who ends up selling some of the stuff to a dealer at the market is kidnapped. After Blaze tells her kidnapper where they got all the stuff he takes her out to the badlands and makes her take him to the cave where everything is. When Rena finds out that Blaze has disappeared she knows what has happened to her. Rena gets help from a guy, Nevan that she has had a crush on for a very long time. He goes with Rena out to the badlands to find Blaze and bring her back home safely. Rena is afraid that Blaze's kidnapper will kill her before she can find them because she knows that there is no way Blaze can find her way back to the cave. But her friend is way smarter than Rena has ever given her credit to be.
I loved reading Edge of Truth and following along with Rena and Nevan on their journey to finding Blaze. Rena is a very good person and has a heart of gold even though she does get upset a lot and acts like a real tough dude at times. Rena, Nevan and Blaze all three are very smart people to be so young. I loved the world that the author created in Edge of Truth. It was real neat to read and to find out about someone having the ability to cause earthquakes. I hope that there will be more books in this series because I think that Rena, Nevan and Blaze have a lot more stories to tell.
About the Author:
Natasha Hanova is an award-winning author of young adult and adult dark fantasy/paranormal fiction. Her first novel, Edge of Truth, a YA dystopian, is now available from Sapphire Star Publishing.
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