Book
Review
Basic Details:
Book Title: Selfsame
Subtitle: (Lower Earth
Rising #1)
Author:
Eden Wolfe
Genre: Fantasy/Sci-Fi/postapocalyptic
Part of a series? Yes
Order in series: 1
Best read after earlier
books in series?
Available:
https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/56130355-selfsame
Overall
score:
I
scored this book 5/5
⭐️ ⭐️ ⭐️ ⭐️ ⭐️
Short
Summary of the book:
Welcome to the world after the Mist. Only
women are in power in this world. The men are not to be trusted after they
brought the world close to full destruction. Aria is kept away from her mother
to be trained as the next queen. At only 18-years-old, she feels ready to take
on this responsibility. But what will happen when her mother needs to decide
who her successor will be. Be ready for a twist towards the end of the book.
What
I liked about the book:
The book is action-packed and full of twists
and turns.
What
I didn’t like about the book:
There was nothing to dislike. The only thing
to dislike would be if this was the actual world we lived in. A world where
love is not allowed.
My
favourite bits in the book:
The entire book.
My
least favourite bits in the book:
I enjoyed the entire book.
Any
further books in the series? Any more planned by this author?
I believe this is the first in a series.
What
books could this be compared to and why?
This book breaches an entirely different kind
of future. I believe the book to be rather unique.
Recommendation:
In
summary, I would recommend this book for the following readers:
|
Children |
No |
|
Young
Adult |
Yes |
|
Adult |
Yes |
If
you like spy novels and intrigue, this
book may be the book for you.
I
look forward to reading more books by this author.
Book
Description by Author:
MEN ARE DOOMED. THE WOMEN MUST SURVIVE. BUT
AT WHAT COST?
Four hundred years after the Final War, Earth
has been reduced to a few pieces of habitable continent.
Men are dying off.
Women are genetically altered to survive.
The genetic deviants are cast away in the
ghetto.
On Lower Earth, the largest remaining known
landmass, disparate peoples fight against each other, the land, and the
illnesses the war left behind.
Queen Maeva rules with the blood of the
masses on her hands, but her ancestry and advanced human abilities mean only
she can save them from destruction and colonization by the old men of Upper
Earth.
18-year-old Aria was designed from the
genetic sequence of the settler queens. Her whole life had been dedicated to
taking over the throne and leading Lower Earth back to prosperity.
Just as she was poised to claim her
birthright, it happened.
Betrayal.
Now Aria must face enemies from far away
shores and much closer to home as she fights the very totalitarian regime she
had been set to lead.
Will Aria be able to stop the reigning Queen
now that she’s discarded?
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