★★★★★ "a more grown up and realistic hunger games."
★★★★★ "brutal, honest, heart-wrenching and beautiful."

You don't hear death leaping at you.
But I can hear you die.
And I can see your body grow as grey and black as the soil that drinks your blood.

Sixteen-year-old Micka never signed up to be a hero. Yet, here she is – Sequencer's apprentice and about to march into battle against a terrorist organisation that vowed to wipe humanity off the planet. Or what's left of it.

She has learned to kill.
Now she must learn that the price of survival can be unbearably high.