The Fire Sermon
Author: Francesca Haig
Publication Date: February 23rd 2015
Publisher: HarperVoyager
~A copy was provided by the publisher in exchange for an honest review~
When Zach and I were born our parents must have counted and recounted: limbs, fingers, toes. We were perfect. They would have been disbelieving: nobody dodged the split between Alpha and Omega.
Nobody.
They were born together and they will die together.
One strong Alpha twin and one mutated Omega; the only thing they share is the moment of their death.
The Omegas live in segregation, cast out by their families as soon as their mutation becomes clear. Forced to live apart, they are ruthlessly oppressed by their Alpha counterparts.
The Alphas are the elite. Once their weaker twin has been cast aside, they're free to live in privilege and safety, their Omega twin far from their thoughts.
Cass and Zach are both perfect on the outside: no missing limbs, no visible Omega mutation. But Cass has a secret: one that Zach will stop at nothing to expose.
The potential to change the world lies in both their hands. One will have to defeat the other to see their vision of the future come to pass, but if they're not careful both will die in the struggle for power.
I will not comment on the whole The Hunger Games meets
______(insert whatever other popular book series that may or may not relate to this actual
book, here). I will not. You could say
it has an essence of it, barely, but when you come down to it, no. You're not
in districts, yes, you're separated in terms of 'class' which, is only two
forms of it. Alpha or Omega. The Omega lands are not that bad either, not like
District 12, I finished reading Finnikin
of the Rock by Melina Marchetta before starting this, and even that is more Hunger Games than this.
