![]() ![]() Agent: Barbara Poelle, Irene Goodman Literary Agency. Still, love creeps in, and nascent rebellion finally stirs when Morgan realizes that not even the most benevolent despot can keep her world secure and stable. It’s difficult not to pity Morgan-she’s a government-molded drone trapped in a familiar dystopian structure, despite the novelty of the setting. Morgan’s world is studded with allegory and symbol: her brother, Lex, looked over the edge of their world and was struck blind an accused murderer is named Judas the trains always run on time. ![]() True, Internment’s history is based on the ground god’s rejection and banishment of its people, but the god of the sky looks after them, as does portly King Furlow and kindly patrolmen like Morgan’s father. DeStefano has also crafted characters who. Her writing weaves a tale of a world that strives to be perfect, but can no longer hide its seedy underbelly. Lauren DeStefano has created a world that, on the the outside, seems like everyone’s happily ever after. Morgan Stockhour is a good tenth-year student who loves her state-mandated betrothed, Basil, and thinks her floating island country, Internment, is beautiful. Although Perfect Ruin is, by genre, a dystopian novel, it reads like a fairy tale. The challenge for authors of totalitarian dystopias is to write about the boredom in interesting ways-a challenge that DeStefano (the Chemical Garden Trilogy) doesn’t quite surmount in this first book in the Internment Chronicles. ![]()
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