I’m happy I got to spend so much time with the characters and in this world, because I had a wonderful time. I’m not exactly sure why, but I’m glad that it took me so long. I started reading this book back in April, and it took me 3 months to finish. If they can survive the imminent cataclysmic disaster, they might just stay that way…Įxcuse my language, but holy fucking shit.

Unfortunately, Hans isn’t above playing dirty, lying, cheating, manipulating… and holding Regan’s memories hostage until he gets his way. Separately they’d never survive, much less uncover the secret of Parole’s eternally-burning fire. Then there’s Zilch, a cool and level-headed person made of other dead people, and Finn, one of Parole’s few remaining taxi drivers, who causes explosions whenever he feels anything but happy. They join forces with Evelyn’s family: the virtuosic but volatile Danae, who breathes life into machines, and her wife Rose, whose compassionate nature and power over healing vines and defensive thorns will both be vital to survive this nightmare. And most of all, discover the truth about their own entwining pasts. Now Regan has a choice – and a chance to not only escape from Parole, but unravel the mystery deep in its burning heart. He turns away from that twisted path, and runs into Evelyn, fearless force on stage and sonic-superheroic revolutionary on the streets. It starts with a little murder.īut instead of ending a man’s life, Regan starts a new one of his own. Unluckily for him, Hans, a ghostly boy with a chilling smile, knows just the thing to get one.

His ability to disappear into thin air isn’t enough: he needs an escape, and he’ll do anything for a chance. Regan, stealth and reconnaissance expert with a lizard’s scales and snake’s eyes, is haunted by ten years of anxiety, trauma and terror, and he’s finally reached his limit. All that’s keeping Parole alive is faith in the midst of horrors and death, trust in the face of desperation… and their fantastic, terrifying, and beautiful superhuman abilities. Eye in the Sky, a deadly and merciless police force ensures no one escapes.

The entire population inside has been quarantined, cut off from the rest of the world, and left to die – directly over the open flame. Like Venice slips into the sea, Parole crumbles into fire.

The Lifeline Signal by RoAnna Sylver