Format: Kindle, 259 pages
Release Date: December 29th 2014
Publisher: Andreas Christensen
Source: Amazon
Genre: Young Adult / Dystopian
The RIFT Saga begins here.
In
the ruins of what was once North America lays the Covenant, a nation
forged by the iron will of the Moon people, who descended from their
dusty refuge on the Moon after the Fall. The Moon people are wealthy,
ruled by a strong government who protects its citizens from the dangers
from outside their borders. Their greatest achievement is having learned
the secret of immortality, and every citizen has the opportunity to
live nearly forever if they choose to, a life of riches and abundance.
Rift, by author Andreas Christensen, is the first installment in the Rift Saga. This science fiction dystopian trilogy is set more than two centuries after the events of the Exodus trilogy, in a future dystopian society forged from the ashes of global disaster. In the ruins of what was once North America lays the Covenant, a nation forged by the iron will of the Moon people, who descended from their dusty refuge on the Moon after the Fall. The Moon people are wealthy, ruled by a strong government who protects its citizens from the dangers from outside their borders.
Their greatest achievement is having learned
the secret of immortality, and every citizen has the opportunity to
live nearly forever if they choose to, a life of riches and abundance. The
English are the descendants of the original inhabitants of this place,
and they live very different lives from that of the Moon people. They
only live to serve the greater good, and citizenship is something few
have the opportunity to earn. At the age of fifty all non-citizens are
subjected to mandatory euthanasia. In order to maintain a sustainable
society, they are told.
Every year a number of girls and boys at
the age of eighteen are selected for Service to the State. The brightest
and most talented are sent to become Students. The strong, the fighters
and the athletes become Janissaries, a band of soldiers protecting the
northern border from the enemies of the Covenant. The Wardens, a
secretive organization known to operate far to the west, near the Rift,
which makes up the border to the wastelands, sometimes chooses one or two
initiates, but nobody knows what becomes of them. And then there is the
Corpus, where the whip rules and backs are bent.
Those who
complete their seven required years of Service, may become citizens. Janissaries are mandated 3 years since most of them don't survive. And although they will
never be equal to the Moon people, they will have access to all the
riches and opportunities granted by the Covenant leadership to its
citizens. As Sue is nearing Selection Day, she secretly hopes to
be chosen, despite having to leave her mother and brother behind. She
doesn't crave glory or wealth though. A man or woman with citizen status
can do a lot of good, and although few return to their home towns, Sue
hopes to return to give her family a better life on the other side of
Service.
But the Covenant is rotten to the core, and as she
begins to learn its secrets, Sue must question everything she has always
taken for granted. Soon she will find herself in dire peril, for she
has seen the truth and there will be no turning back after that.
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