Advance Review of Francesca Haig's The Fire Sermon
Release Date: March 10th, 2015
Synopsis as found on Amazon.com:
The Hunger Games meets Cormac McCarthy’s The Road in this richly imagined first novel in a new post-apocalyptic trilogy by award-winning poet Francesca Haig.
Four hundred years in the future, the Earth has turned primitive following a nuclear fire that has laid waste to civilization and nature. Though the radiation fallout has ended, for some unknowable reason every person is born with a twin. Of each pair, one is an Alpha—physically perfect in every way; and the other an Omega—burdened with deformity, small or large. With the Council ruling an apartheid-like society, Omegas are branded and ostracized while the Alphas have gathered the world’s sparse resources for themselves. Though proclaiming their superiority, for all their effort Alphas cannot escape one harsh fact: Whenever one twin dies, so does the other.
Cass is a rare Omega, one burdened with psychic foresight. While her twin, Zach, gains power on the Alpha Council, she dares to dream the most dangerous dream of all: equality. For daring to envision a world in which Alphas and Omegas live side-by-side as equals, both the Council and the Resistance have her in their sights.
Synopsis as found on GoodReads.com:
400 years after a nuclear apocalypse, society is left without technology and all humans are twins. One of each pair is physically perfect, and they are called Alphas, while the other, the Omega, bears some mutation. The apartheid society forces the mutated twins to settlements, even though when one twin dies, so does the other. This is the relationship between a brother and sister twin, and what happens when he becomes a leader in the repressed society.
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Wow. I have finally been able to finish this incredible book. It has been a long week and try as I might, I have been unable to put my all into reading at night. Whether it be from exhaustion after work or something coming up, I have not found the time to read and am once again behind. Although, I will probably always be behind when so many books are released a week.
I am so happy to find a great dystopian story that is different than any of the others I have ever read. Bringing to you a taste of Pure by Julianna Baggott and a bit of Wasteland by Susan Kim & Laurence Klavan, The Fire Sermon is sure to whet your appetite and leave you begging for more.
400 years in the future, after the devastating effects of Nuclear War has ravaged our world, a new society has been born from the ashes. The cities we once knew are gone. Many species of flora & fauna are extinct. What is left is a world free of technology for fear of what they call "the blast" from happening again. What is left of the wild life is born with deformities: Multiple headed snakes was one example used... and that includes human beings. Every human is now born with a twin. One twin is perfect in every way and are known as Alphas, while the other twin is born with imperfections and are known as Omegas.
Cass is the Omega of her pair, but you would not be able to tell by looking at her. She has been born perfect. But this is known to happen from time to time. Her deformity is on the inside, because she has been born a seer. She gets glimpses into the future or feelings about something before it happens. She has hidden it from a long time, but she has finally been discovered.
Her twin Zach has had to grow up with taunts of the towns people, because his sister was never sent away like most Omega children. He couldn't prove he was the Alpha, so in turn he has been treated like the Omega he knows he isn't. He wants to live up to his potential, but with Cass still around, he can not do that. He will do anything to prove that she is a seer.
The twins beginnings are only a small part of this book, but I can't give too much away, because SO MUCH happens in it: a Love Triangle, Betrayal by another Seer, an Omega Resistance... and so so much more.
This book series has yet to be released (March of 2015) and was already signed by DreamWorks Studios to be made into Movies. That tells you right there that it is incredible... and makes me want the sequel all the much more for it.
** Please note that the above picture is of the Advance Reader's Edition I received and may not be the final cover.
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