SLADE: Book 2 of The Fifth Place

For a long time they walked in the Circle’s shrinking shadow, before it dropped away before them with the triumphant rising of the sun over its crooked heights. They crossed a sharp edge of night-blue, suddenly bright and crystalline and baking hot.

Jay looked back at the Black Circle, still dominating the land and sky. How long the sun had struggled to break free. How long they all had.

Description

‘Just to reiterate, now we’re on the same page, I need a gun and I need to get out of here.’

 

Alexia Slade is being held prisoner in a place that exists outside of space and time. She will need all her cunning – and the remains of her sanity – if she ever hopes to escape and return home.

Jay Wulf has found a way through the Black Circle and out the other side. He gathers old allies and risky new ones as he sets out to explore a futuristic and yet completely broken world.

They will need all the help they can get. For this world is controlled and manipulated from the shadows, by somebody known only as the Spider. And he has taken quite the interest in the newcomers . . .

 

The story here is brutal, relentless, funny, heartbreaking, and above all entertaining, with new antagonists and mind-bending revelations, but where Sytes really excels is character building. These aren’t cookie-cutter heroes. In most cases, they can barely scrape by under the heading "anti-heroes". They butt heads, freak each other out and freak out on each other, kill, steal, torture, wish they could do better but don't actually do it, and end up causing most of their own heartache. In other words, they're human.

Eden Hudson, author of the Path of the Thunderbird series

I f**king hate Savvi. And I love it.

Pablo, Goodreads review

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