Overview
For fourteen-year-old Areli Roberts, her dreamy new
school isn’t really a dream come true.
There is already a blade being sharpened to promptly execute her if she
doesn’t perform in the racing coliseum as she is expected, she constantly feels
the bite of animosity from her new teammates, and no matter how hard she tries,
she can’t seem to clean away the growing amount of blood on her hands.
Areli is a dragon rider, and one of the newest
recruits to a school with the most prestigious and talented column racing team
in the Empire, which carries an impeccable winning tradition. Outside the mountain walls of the valley
where she now lives, there is a brutal manhunt for Degendhard the Great,
someone who threatens the Emperor’s rule.
When Areli’s not racing or training, she is spending her time with her
best friend Fides or falling deeper in love with her new boyfriend Yats. But after an altercation with the Emperor’s
niece and later acquiring a deadly secret about Degendhard the Great, Areli is plunged
into a different kind of race. One in
which not only her life is at stake, but also the lives of everyone she loves.
The Column Racer, is an adventure of love, loss, pain, and
sacrifices. It is a character-driven
fantasy novel for young adults, and the first in the series of two books that
delve into the world of Areli Roberts and the events that change her for the
better . . . and for the worse.
Thanks Jeff for a pre-release copy, the storyline is great. i have already got "lost" in visualizing riding through the forest and crossing the desert to the Emperor's castle. One line I thought was a masterful use of words were towards the end of chapter5, "And like branches giving a leaf to the wind, they let her feet carry her to the metal and diamonds bars"
ReplyDeletejust thought that was poetic. :)