Ruby's Fire by Catherine Stine
If everything about you changes, what remains?Seventeen year-old Ruby, long-pledged to the much older Stiles from the Fireseed desert cult, escapes with only a change of clothes, a pouch of Oblivion Powder and her mute little brother, Thorn. Arriving at The Greening, a boarding school for orphaned teens, she can finally stop running. Or can she? The Greening is not what it seems. Students are rampaging out of control and as she cares for the secret Fireseed crop, she experiences frightening physical changes. She’s ashamed of her attraction to burly, hard-talking Blane, the resident bodyguard, and wonders why she can’t be happy with the gentler Armonk. She’s long considered her great beauty a liability, a thing she’s misused in order to survive. And how is she to stop her dependence on Oblivion to find a real beauty within, using her talent as a maker of salves, when she has nightmares of Stiles without it?
When George Axiom, wealthy mogul of Vegas-by-the-Sea offers a huge cash prize for the winner of a student contest, Ruby is hopeful she might collect the prize to rescue her family and friends from what she now knows is a dangerous cult. But when Stiles comes to reclaim her, and Thorn sickens after creating the most astonishing contest project of all, the world Ruby knows is changed forever. This romantic fantasy set in 2099 on earth has a crafty heroine in Ruby, and a swoonworthy cast, which will surely appeal to the YA and new adult audience.
Futuristic world where the temperature gets close to 200 degrees and people have to wear protective clothing- The Hotzone (once known as the United States). If you live
In the Hotzone, it's a tough life. Daytime temperatures can kill you and also sand storms and radiation. The Hotzone residents must ware a special suits (burn suits) and masks or stay indoors and come out at night. when the children forage for beetles with long sticks, and insect meat loaf is the result. It's alleged to be delicious once you get used to the idea. Hotzone residents who try to escape to the North had earned the derogatory nickname "refs," not only for themselves but for all Hotzone residents.Varik's father an genius inventor succeed to create an hybrid between Agar plant and Fireseed and this hybrid used as food source all over the Hotzone.
**Unfortunately I didn't read the 1st book, so all my knowledge is based on tide bites along the 2nd one... but I still think that the 2nd book can stand all by itself as the characters are the next generation and have their story to tell. What we have now?
- the Fireseed desert cult - A cult of crazies who believe that the Fierseed is a god. In this cult the young daughters pledged, from a very young age. The problem is that age difference is not a factor in the equation and to the parents there is no saying in this matter.
* According to this :
- for Seventeen year-old Ruby, long-pledged to the much older Stiles from the the only chance to evade this destiny, is to escapes with only a change of clothes, a pouch of Oblivion Powder and her mute little brother, Thorn leaving he mother behind. The perfect time to this is when the moon is full and Stiles who is going claim her plan to execute the match (every full moon 2 girls had to go through this process).... later Ruby will learn that the name to this assault is rape.
- She don't know much about the world outside the cult beside the frightening stories that the elders use to tell, but in her escape they caught a ride with a corrupt glider driver and trying to escape from him they Arrived at The Greening, a boarding school for orphaned teens, she can finally stop running.
and how is she going to stop her dependence on Oblivion, when she has nightmares of Stiles without it?
- The Greening is not what it seems. there she meet Nevada who running the place and the other students (Blane, Bee, Jan, Radius, Vesper and ans another outsider like her but a one that share an history with Nevada - Armonk). Each of those students has a troubled history behind him that can explain his behavior. When Students are rampaging out of control they cross some lines and, Ruby and her brother experienced a frightening physical changes.
- Romance - Love triangle? Ruby long considered her great beauty a liability, a thing she’s misused in order to survive. She’s ashamed of her attraction to burly, hard-talking Blane, the resident bodyguard, and wonders why she can’t be happy with the gentler Armonk.
- George Axiom, wealthy mogul of Vegas-by-the-Sea come and convince the to take a part in a student contest to develop something based on the Fierseed plant. He offers a huge cash prize for the winner. each of the students has his own project, even her brother Thorn and Ruby is hopeful she might collect the prize to rescue her family and friends from what she now knows is a dangerous cult by using her talent as a maker of salves.
- Thorn - Ruby's brother don't talk at all. According to Ruby in the cult burned the words out his mouth. No one was sure if he is smart or not. with Ruby he could communicated sometimes with few words and she had to interpret the meaning all by herself. I must admit that here the author weren't clear enough and I couldn't understand what happened to him and why he had to behave as he behaved. Anyway, his project was the best one. So best that somebody try to steal it out of his head..... here I must stop the reader have to read this by themselves.
***Anyway - I liked the plot very much because, the main idea of it, place the book in the world of the classical sci-fi and remind somewhat of Arthur C. Clark. Well once Biologist always biologist - Give me science, plants and genetics to dwell on, and I'll be happy. But really, you don't have to be bio. to love it so I can recommend it with all my heart .About the Author
When Kitsy Clare isn’t creating romances on her Mac Air, she teaches writing workshops. She also loves to draw, travel, read spicy romance, sci-fi and all kinds of thrillers. She divides her time between New York City and her Catskills studio, where she enjoys the sounds of birds, bullfrogs and the random coyote.
She also writes young adult fiction as Catherine Stine. Her YA futuristic thriller, Fireseed One won finalist spots in both YA and Science Fiction in the 2013 USA Book News International Book Awards, and was an Indie Reader Approved notable book. Her YA Refugees, earned a New York Public Library Best Book. Ruby’s Fire, the new companion novel to Fireseed One, is receiving high praise from reviewers. She’s a member of RWA, SCBWI and SFWA. She loves her readers and enjoys hearing from them.
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