City of Shattered Light, Claire Winn
City of Shattered Light, Claire Winn
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City of Shattered Light

Author: Claire Winn

Narrator: Sarah Beth Pfeifer

Unabridged: 13 hr 18 min

Format: Digital Audiobook Download

Publisher: Tantor Media

Published: 12/28/2021


Synopsis

As heiress to a powerful tech empire, seventeen-year-old Asa Almeida strives to prove she's more than her manipulative father's shadow. But when he uploads her rebellious sister's mind to an experimental brain, Asa will do anything to save her sister from reprogramming—including fleeing her predetermined future with her sister's digitized mind in tow. With a bounty on her head and a rogue AI hunting her, Asa's getaway ship crash-lands in the worst possible place: the neon-drenched outlaw paradise, Requiem.

Gunslinging smuggler Riven Hawthorne is determined to claw her way up Requiem's underworld hierarchy. A runaway rich girl is exactly the bounty Riven needs—until a nasty computer virus spreads in Asa's wake, causing a citywide blackout and tech quarantine. To get the payout for Asa and save Requiem from the monster in its circuits, Riven must team up with her captive.

Riven breaks skulls the way Asa breaks circuits, but their opponent is unlike anything they've ever seen. The AI exploits the girls' darkest memories and deepest secrets, threatening to shatter the fragile alliance they're both depending on. As one of Requiem's 154-hour nights grows darker, the girls must decide whether to fend for themselves or fight for each other before Riven's city and Asa's sister are snuffed out forever.

About Claire Winn

Claire Winn spends her time immersed in other worlds-through LARP, video games, books, nerd conventions, and her own stories. Since graduating from Northwestern University, she's worked as a legal writer and freelance editor. Aside from writing, she builds cosplay props and armor, tears up dance floors, and battles with boffer swords. City of Shattered Light is her first novel.


Reviews

Goodreads review by Lucie

I received a copy of this book via NetGalley (thank you North Star Editions). All thoughts and opinions are my own. ✅ Gorgeous cover ✅ Plot ✅ Action ✅ Main characters ✅ Ruthless crime syndicates ✅ Pace ✅🆗 Betrayals and secrets 🆗 Secondary characters 🆗 Identity of the "villain" ❗️❗️ Cliffhanger Strong 3......more

Goodreads review by Claire

UPDATE 3/2022: The sequel is a go! You can add City of Vicious Night here! Author’s note (content warnings at the bottom!) This is the unexpected, scrappy-underdog book of my heart, with characters who already feel like old friends and a world that still pervades my dreams. City of Shattered Light is......more

Goodreads review by Ayla

Thank you to Netgalley for providing me with an ARC in exchange for an honest review! I’m severely disappointed. And I was really, really excited for this. Based on the synopsis and gorgeous cover, this book was going to be full of incredible characters, a sapphic romance, a vivid cyperpunk w......more