Shadowborn (8 Ergebnisse)

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Taschenbuch. Zustand: Neu. Neuware - Teylin Walker, fresh from an audition in LA, rides her bicycle smack into an invisible obstacle. A silver-haired, blue-eyed boy suddenly materializes-only to vanish again. Tey manages to track him to a warehouse, where she sees a group of imprisoned children with the same eye and hair colors. Their captors grab Tey as well and take them all to Los Sueños, an archipelago somewhere in the Pacific. Luckily, bounty hunters rescue the would-be actor from the Coterie, the criminal organization holding her captive. But getting back to the U.S. isn't easy. Los Sueños is a country whose king has intentionally isolated it from the rest of the world. Her only option, it seems, is paying thousands of dollars to take a sailor's spot on a ship. The bounty hunters' leader, Rob Stryker, who prefers the nomenclature 'fugitive recovery agents,' lets Tey help in chasing down Coterie members. It's precarious work, but splitting this bounty-and future ones-will fund her trip home. What the Coterie truly wants are all of the silver-haired children, aka the shadowborn. But the more Tey encounters shadowborn, the more she sympathizes with them, especially since the king wants them 'eradicated.' Lending support to these unusual kids will put her in conflict with Rob and the other agents, making the prospect of escaping Los Sueños even less likely. Alder sublimely casts this story's archipelago as a place entirely separate from the contemporary world. Its limited modern conveniences are sporadic, like running water and electricity. Cellphones don't work, and Tey sees a kitchen that 'recalled a Victorian mansion from a school field trip.' The titular characters have few appearances, unfortunately, though readers do get to see their powers, from telepathy to healing. Alder's concise prose works well to heighten the drama: 'Heart hammering, I stopped in my tracks and squinted at the darkness that seemed unusually dense. The shadows rose off the ground, shielding the girl with a black vapor. I took a couple of steps back, my skin cold.' The shadowborn are also steeped in mystery. How they become that way is unknown, and the children have no memories of their pasts. The action comes primarily from Tey and the agents' battling the Coterie.…

Taschenbuch. Zustand: Neu. Neuware - Teylin Walker has never been lucky, but that won't stop her from chasing a new life. Leaving behind her abusive mother and the wreckage of her past, she heads to Los Angeles to become an actress. But when a chance encounter with a mysterious boy who can turn invisible shatters everything she knows, one reckless choice pulls her into a hidden world across the Pacific, an archipelago ruled by a brutal crime syndicate, fueled by ancient magic, and cut off from the rest of the world.Now she is trapped in a place where dreams blur with reality, and freedom costs more than gold. To survive, Tey must navigate a web of lies and loyalty while uncovering the truth about the Shadowborn, children cursed by the islands with powers they never asked for and enslaved for what they've become.Desperate to escape, Tey allies herself with Rob Stryker, a daring young bounty hunter with secrets of his own. But she must decide how far she is willing to go for freedom. As her feelings for Rob deepen, so does her resolve to help the Shadowborn. And when she risks everything to rescue one of them from a cruel master, she faces an impossible choice: escape the islands.or stay and fight for the ones who can't.…

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