In this gripping and atmospheric reimagining of Antigone #1 New York Times bestselling author
Veronica Roth reaches back to the root of legend and delivers a world of tomorrow both timeless
and unexpected. I'm cursed haven't you heard? Outside the last city on Earth the planet is a
wasteland. Without the Archive where the genes of the dead are stored humanity will end.
Antigone's parents-Oedipus and Jocasta-are dead. Passing into the Archive should be cause for
celebration but with her militant uncle Kreon rising to claim her father's vacant throne all
Antigone feels is rage. When he welcomes her and her siblings into his mansion Antigone sees
it for what it really is: a gilded cage where she is a captive as well as a guest. But her
uncle will soon learn that no cage is unbreakable. And neither is he. Roth is a masterful
conjurer summoning both classic myth and visceral dystopia to weave a breathtaking tale of
love avarice and the timeless desire for revenge. - Ryka Aoki bestselling author of Light
From Uncommon Stars
