The trials of Koli

The trials of Koli

M. R. Carey, 1959-

Book - 2020

"Koli never planned to set foot outside his small village. He knew that beyond its walls lay a fearsome landscape filled with choker trees, vicious beasts and Shunned men. But when he was exiled, he had no choice but to journey out into this strange world where every moment is a fight for survival. And it's not just Koli's life that is threatened. Whole villages just like his are dying out. But Koli heard a story, once. A story about lost London, and the mysterious tech of the Old Times that may still be there. If he can find it, there may still be a way for him to change his own fate--by saving the lives of those who are left."--Publisher.

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Subjects
Technology > Fiction.
Teenage boys > Fiction.
England > Fiction.
Science fiction.
Dystopian fiction.
Genres
Science fiction
Dystopian fiction
Published
New York, NY : Orbit 2020.
Language
English
Main Author
M. R. Carey, 1959- (author)
Edition
First edition
Physical Description
469 pages ; 21 cm
ISBN
9780316458689
9781549107320
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Review by Booklist Review

This middle volume in Carey's postapocalyptic Rampart trilogy continues the story of Koli, a boy exiled from the village of Mythen Rood for uncovering its rulers' secrets. Koli and his friends, the scientist Ursala, a young trans woman named Cup, and the self-aware (and somewhat stereotypically written) Japanese AI Monono, continue towards lost London to trace the mysterious signal from someone known only as The Sword of Albion. Along the way they have to overcome carnivorous seeds, marauders, and their own wariness of one another. Meanwhile in Mythen Rood, a plague puts the entire community in danger and puts an enormous amount of strain on the eldest member of the ruling Vennastin family, Rampart Remember. Koli's childhood friend and newly married member of the Vennastins, Spinner, comes to be relied on to help the eldest Rampart, and begins a journey that will transform her village forever. At times feeling like a YA-oriented version of Jeff Vandermeer's Borne (2017), this novel should please Carey's existing fans as well as fans of the postapocalyptic subgenre in general.

From Booklist, Copyright (c) American Library Association. Used with permission.

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