Sunset Rising by M.C.

Book blurb: 

" Life as a slave in the Pit had never been easy, but for seventeen-year-old Sunny O’Donnell it was quickly falling apart. Her mother had been killed in the annual spring Cull, leaving her alone with a father who was no longer interested in living the short time he had left. Not that she blamed him for mourning. Her own heart was aching with overwhelming grief. But if they didn’t earn enough credits to keep their place inside the Pit, they would be kicked out into a world still teeming with radiation. That left her to earn the credits for both of them, and it didn’t help that her boyfriend, Reyes Crowe, was pressuring her to marry him and abandon her father.
Sunny didn’t think life could get any worse until a chance encounter with Leisel Holt, the president's daughter, and her fiancé, Jack Kenner, leaves her accused of treason. Slated for execution, she escapes with a man she considers an enemy and discovers she not only has to work with him to survive, but also to lead the revolution."

My review:

This book was a good surprise for me. I really enjoyed it. I liked the concept and characters. Here, we followed at the very beginning Benjamin Reyes, a man who managed to save lives when there was a nuclear war then we jumped to Sunny's story, almost three hundreds years later. She lives and works in the pit for the Dome. They do all the chores that the people from the Dome don't want to do. They also are forced to get "Culled" when they are 35 years old, meaning they are executed at 35 and they know all their life when they will die. It's like an expiration date you can't escape and that fact made me feel heart broken for them. The author's writing was good to make you feel that way. After believing someone evil, the main character, Sunny is in big trouble then she has to hide. Finally, there is a start of a Revolution even if they know that the President could easily kill them all by cutting off their air. I was hooked by this book and I will probably read the next book someday, especially with that cliffhanger that reminded me of a TV show I like.

*** I wanted to thank Clownfish Publishing for letting me read and review a digital copy of this book.***

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