Reliquary by Kris Brooker
A theocratic Commission rules. Patron rules absolute. The people believe they are protected by Saints, and that their city alone survived Armageddon.
When a Duma crime-boss tasks Scout to track down a stolen Relic, what he omits to mention is the Commission want it too, and they’ll kill anyone who stands in their way.
Find the thief, find the relic. Find a heretic, Kat, who’s as dangerous as she is beautiful. Scout puts them both in the crosshairs of a state sanctioned assassin. Their survival now depends on finding the relic.
It’s an uneasy alliance, through a black market in forbidden history into an underworld of religious sects, to find they’ve stumbled upon an ancient prophecy, and into a heretical coup.
All sides desire the relic. Understanding it’s purpose will reshape the future of Mankind.
A book that melds the past seamlessly with the future. I empathised with them as they battled the theocratic state. A real WTF ending 🙂
Brooker’s dystopia is dark, and the story transported me to where I needed to be. On the move from beginning to end. Really good book
This is not the Hunger Games or Divergence. This is a dystopia for grown ups, thankfully. At last, not a teenager in sight. Great read
A deep, dark, and frankly disturbing Dystopian read. A big book that reads half its size. I was captivated till the end. Really good story
Flicks back to the past a lot. Gives a lot of depth to characters and landscape. A well crafted dystopia. Unsurprisingly Kat’s are cool 🙂