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Author: Steven Dos Santos Title: The Sowing Series: The Torch Keeper #2 Genre: Science Fiction, Dystopian, Survival Fiction Publisher: Flux Books Expected Publication Date: March 8,2014   This time, there are no choices. Lucian “Lucky” Spark leads a double life. By day, he trains to become one of the Establishment elite. At night, he sabotages his oppressors from within, seeking to avenge the murder of his love, Digory Tycho, and rescue his imprisoned brother. But when he embarks on a risky plot to assassinate members of the Establishment hierarchy, Lucky is thrust into the war between the Establishment and the rebellion, where the lines between friend and foe are blurred beyond recognition. His only chance for survival lies in facing the secrets of the Sowing, a mystery rooted in the ashes of the apocalyptic past that threatens to destroy Lucky’s last hope for the future. Review   "Freedom and dignity are not scraps to be doled out by cruel masters. T...

  Booking Through Thursday is a weekly bookish meme where participants are asked a series of questions about their reading habits. To join this or future Booking Through Thursdays Click Here This Week BTT Asks:  What’s the last book that made you spring to your feet, eager to spread the word and tell everyone how much you loved it? The last book I've read that really made me just gush was The Culling by Steven Dos Santos. The Culling had great characters, even greater villains and The Culling itself was just brutal. Each person involved in The Culling has to choose two people they love as incentives to perform well. If you fail a task you have to kill one of them. If you fail twice, not only does your other loved one die but you forfeit your own life as well. I mean c'mon that is just some cold blooded sh*t right there. I mean this book was just pure <3. In fact, I'm not afraid to state it was even better than The Hunger Games by a long shot. Were not just t...

Add To Goodreads Author: Steven Dos Santos Title: The Culling Series: The Torch Keeper #1 Genre: Science Fiction, Dystopian, Survival Fiction Publisher: Flux Books Expected Publication Date: March 8,2013 Review Copy Provided By: Netgalley  Rating:★★★★★ Pre-Order the Paperback: Amazon   Barnes & Noble Recruitment Day is here...if you fail, a loved one will die...   For Lucian “Lucky” Spark, Recruitment Day means the Establishment, a totalitarian government, will force him to become one of five Recruits competing to join the ruthless Imposer task force. Each Recruit participates in increasingly difficult and violent military training for a chance to advance to the next level. Those who fail must choose an “Incentive”—a family member—to be brutally killed. If Lucky fails, he’ll have to choose death for his only living relative: Cole, his four-year-old brother. Lucky will do everything he can to keep his brother alive, even if it means sacrifi...