City of Savages Audiobook (Free)

“Red Dawn meets Escape from New York and The Food cravings Video games” (Booklist) in an action-packed dystopian fantasy filled with “prose [that] is beautiful and brilliant” and “tells a satisfyingly dark tale through alternating both sisters’ points of view” (VOYA, starred review).

It’s been almost two decades since the Red Allies first attacked New York, and Manhattan is now a prisoner-of-war camp, ruled by Rolladin and her brutal, impulsive warlords. For Skyler Miller, Manhattan is a cage that helps to keep about City of Savages her from the world beyond the city’s borders. But also for Sky’s more youthful sister, Phee, the POW camp can be a dangerous playground of possibility, and the just home she’d ever want.

When Sky and Phee discover their mom’s hidden journal from your war’s outbreak, they both realize there’s more to Manhattan-and their mother-than possibly of these had ever imagined. And after several strangers finds the annual POW census, girls begin to discover the island’s long-kept secrets. The strangers hail from Britain, a country supposedly destroyed from the Red Allies, and Rolladin’s lies about Manhattan’s captivity begin to unravel.

Hungry for the truth, the sisters collection a series of events in movement that result in the loss of life of one of Rolladin’s guards. Now they’re outlaws, compelled to become listed on the unusual Englishmen on an escape mission through Manhattan. Their flight requires them into subways haunted by cannibals, in to the arms of the sadistic cult in the city’s Meatpacking Area and, through the web pages of their mom’s outdated journal, in to the island’s dark and shocking past.