Book
Review
Basic Details:
Book Title: Culling
Subtitle: (Lower Earth
Rising #2)
Author:
Eden Wolfe
Genre: Fantasy/Sci-Fi/postapocalyptic
Part of a series? Yes
Order in series: 2
Best read after earlier
books in series? Yes
Available:
https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/56130370-culling
Overall
score:
I
scored this book 5/5
⭐️ ⭐️ ⭐️ ⭐️ ⭐️
Short
Summary of the book:
Queen Ariane reigns with a strict hand over
Lower Earth. In Aria’s childhood home, Gana, her best friend Leadon feels she
will now be able to help them. But what will she find when she observes the
queen from a distance? And what will happen to the Queen mother, Maeva? Will
Ariane’s paranoia lead to destruction of most of the country?
What
I liked about the book:
The book is, like the first in the series, 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 second 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:
Thousands of innocent genetic deviants. One
Queen who wants them dead.
Can a feared woman win the trust of her
enemies to save Lower Earth from its own depravity?
Food is even more scarce as "crop
killers" become commonplace. The former Queen, Maeva, is reduced to
disregarded advisor, and the researchers of Central Tower are forced to pick
their loyalty: to Queen or to scientific truth.
Standing tall and at last self-confident, Leadon
learns the hard way that Lower Earth is not the promised land of her childhood
dreams.
When she takes over leadership of the
original peoples of Lower Earth, she's stunned to learn that humanity is being
stripped away right from the top of their society.
Queen Ariane is not who she pretends to be.
Where her mother had ruled with the blood of
her enemies on her hands, Ariane is not so specific.
If she deems a people worthy, they will
flourish.
But if she deems them useless to Lower Earth,
she will have them eliminated.
Leadon witnesses the Queen’s evil when the
lives of thousands of children are suddenly in the balance. Considered
"too far along to save", a generation of incubates aren't worthy to
live, or so says Queen Ariane.
Leadon is torn: she is desperate to redeem
the Ganese people, indigenous to the land and systematically reduced to
prisoners of a contained region of the country. But Leadon has enemies. The
Ganese warrior priestesses have a reputation for ruthlessness, generations old
mistrust lives among those who fear their attack.
Now, with the imminent death of innocent
thousands and panic infused as a tool of control, Leadon will have to convince
those who'd sooner string her up that they must combine forces.
Otherwise the very humanity that kept Lower
Earth alive in the wake of the Final War risks dying in the hands of lies,
propaganda, and an army of Guards who do the Queen's bloody bidding.
And through it all, the birth of a single
child holds the promise of a future… which is why he must be shut away in the
back alleys of Cork Town…
In Selfsame, Lower Earth had to look itself
in the eye. In Culling, Lower Earth must run from its own reflection.
Buy Culling, Book 2 in Lower Earth Rising,
today!
