Perfect ruin - DeStefano, Lauren
Summary: "Sixteen-year-old Morgan Stockhour lives in Internment, a floating city utopia. But when a murder occurs, everything she knows starts to unravel"-- Provided by publisher.
Booklist Reviews
*Starred Review* Morgan Stockhour, along with her family and friends, lives in Internment, a city that floats in the sky. It's surrounded by a train line; go beyond the trains and you come to the edge. Below is "the ground," almost imperceptible to the Internment residents, who were banished from there generations ago, supposedly for their demands and curiosity. Morgan's brother, Lex, is one of the currently curious, an edge "jumper," who became blinded in the process—and put his family under the king's suspicion. Morgan and Lex's relationship has become strained, but she does have a strong support system in her sister-in-law; her betrothed, Basil; and her best friend, Pen. When a young girl turns up murdered, the myth of a safe, serene community is extinguished. A chance encounter with the escaped murderer makes Morgan question all that she's been taught to believe and leads her down a rabbit hole of surprise, suspicion, and conspiracy. DeStefano has created a perfect storm—intertwining plot, characters, and setting beautifully. From the first page, readers will be enticed by Morgan's voice, precise in its descriptions yet filled with curiosity. Internment becomes practically a character in itself, and what at first seems an almost magical place, surrounded by stars, will eventually stifle readers, as it does Morgan. The story's framework is expandable enough to encompass tenderness, tension, and surprise. This is a page-turner, and waiting for the next book will be hard, hard, hard. HIGH-DEMAND BACKSTORY: DeStefano, author of the New York Times best-selling Chemical Garden series, has a boatload of fans. The promotion for this will garner more. Copyright 2013 Booklist Reviews.
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