Genre: Realistic Fiction
# of Pages: 324
RAC Book: Yes
Lyn does not want to follow in her mother’s footsteps as a gladiator wife, but when her seventh gladiator father falls in the arena she worries about the future of her family. The gladiator association has rules that her mother can never marry again and due to an illegal disqualification of her stepfather, her family loses all benefits and assets. His opponent picked up the bracelet she had given her father for luck and keeps it as a prize, but this means that by the rules of the arena she must marry him. Lyn cannot bear to marry the man her murdered her father, but her only other choice would be to face him in the arena herself…
Fans of The Hunger Games series will find this interesting, but not as appealing as that trilogy. There is some gore and violence, but most of the story deals with Lyn and her family coping with the loss of everything after the death of Tommy, her mother’s seventh husband. Lyn’s brother has some mental disabilities, but is also able to make predictions. These predictions give the story an interesting twist as his predictions grow more and more surprising. The premise behind this story is a bit more exciting than the actual execution of it, but readers of this type of fiction will enjoy it.
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