6/21/2023 0 Comments Taken book erin bowmanLife is hard in Claysoot, and for Gray Weathersby, it just got a whole lot harder. The only love felt is between a mother and child what’s the point of falling in love if a boy is going to vanish one day? To ensure their society doesn’t die out, each month teens are slated, or paired up with one another in the hopes of, well, conceiving a child. No one knows how or why, but on a boy’s eighteenth birthday, he’s Heisted: completely wiped off the face of the earth with no trace. Should he sit back and wait to be taken–or risk everything on the hope of the other side?įor the boys in Claysoot, “live fast, die young” is a way of life. And what lies beyond the Wall that surrounds Claysoot–a structure that no one can cross and survive.Ĭlimbing the Wall is suicide, but what comes after the Heist could be worse. Gray Weathersby’s eighteenth birthday is mere months away, and he’s prepared to meet his fate–until he finds a strange note from his mother and starts to question everything he’s been raised to accept: the Council leaders and their obvious secrets. The ground shakes, the wind howls, a blinding light descends…and he’s gone. There are boys-but every one of them vanishes at midnight on his eighteenth birthday.
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