![]() Filled with literary and artistic allusions (some of which diverge in the dual Chicagos), the action-packed narrative poses thorny ethical questions as Darcy wrestles with bigotry, identity, belonging, and love. Conn takes Darcy from “the Alter” (her Chicago) to a parallel version of the city where Shades operate as terrorists and live in a Shadow Society. ![]() Not just a love interest, Conn also presents a real threat as he reveals that Darcy is actually a Shade, an ethereal creature who can “ghost and manifest” (disappear and reappear). Her next project is a YA duology set in the same world as The Winners Curse. She also wrote the YA novel The Shadow Societyand the childrens fantasy series The Kronos Chronicles, including The Cabinet of Wonders. Just as things are stabilizing for Darcy-she’s honing her talent for art and has a loyal group of outsider friends-an intense new boy at her high school, Conn McCrea, fixates on her. Description:Marie Rutkoski is the New York Timesbestselling author of The Winners Trilogy, which begins with The Winners Curse. Since then, Darcy has lived in multiple foster homes, accumulating a thick behavioral file. Sixteen-year-old Darcy Jones remembers nothing of her life before she was abandoned in front of a Chicago firehouse at age five. She is a professor of English literature at Brooklyn College and a New York Times bestselling author of books for children and young adults, including The Shadow Society and the Kronos Chronicles, which includes The Cabinet of Wonders. ![]() Rutkoski returns with a gripping and intelligent thriller, invoking the kind of space-time twists familiar to fans of her Kronos Chronicles. Born in Illinois, Marie Rutkoski is a graduate of the University of Iowa and Harvard University. ![]()
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