Series: Dark Gifts
Publisher: Pan Macmillan
Format: Paperback
Pages: 405 Pages
Rating: 5/5 (it was amazing) ★★★★★
Goodreads Blurb
Not all will be saved
One glorious summer, Luke's family is torn apart. He's expecting nothing more sinister than exams, while his sister Abi anticipates university. But they'll be separated to do their slavedays - a decade of labour demanded by law, enforced by a magically-skilled aristocracy.
Luke will dream of rebellion in a barbaric factory town. Abi will navigate the malice of a high-born estate, and find an unlikely love. But the siblings must choose sides as Britain moves from anger to defiance. They'll become entangled in acts of savagery and magic, as nobles vie for power. No one is safe and none will emerge unscathed. Is there a better way - or will a dangerous young aristocrat remake the world with his dark gifts?
Thoughts
During this book we see the story through multiple perspectives, the majority being with Luke and Abi Hadley.The story really does not hold with the punches, from the prologue to the end this really does outline what humans can do to other humans because they are different.
The story doesn't focus on race but the ruling class has powers (Skills), while the lower classes do not and have to become a slave to the ruling class for 10 years.
I found this story to be really well written and all the characters lives intertwined with each other so well. The story just seemed to flow from one perspective to another so easily.
The story just pulls out punches even from the prologue, and it just doesn't give up in each chapter, you are always discovering something that hits you between the eyes that you really were not expecting.
I felt myself getting so angry at this book, not because I hated it (I loved it), but at some of the situations the Hadleys were put in, especially Luke.
You have this 16yr old boy who is being dragged away from his family to work in Millmoor (what is known as a Slavetown), and the conditions he was kept it were completely appalling.
I found the love story between Jenner and Abi to be a bit lacklustre, it wasn't my favourite part of the book, and this was quite predictable from the first chapter by what book Abi had been reading while in the garden.
Out of all the characters my favourite was Luke, as soon as he went to a slavetown he found a purpose to get him through his days there, and created a family out of other members of his group.
Will I read the sequel? Yes I will, overall this is a great book and I found it suck a quick read (even though it is over 400 pages long), as I got so sucked in by the characters and their stories.
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