27 hours

Format:

Book

Title:

27 hours

Other title(s):

Twenty-seven hours

Author:

Wright, Tristina author

ISBN:

9781633758209

Edition:

First edition.

Publication:

Fort Collins, CO : Entangled Teen, an imprint of Entangled Publishing, LLC, 2017.

Physical Description:

387 pages ; 22 cm

Series title(s):

Nightside saga ;

Number in series:

BK. 1.

Summary:

"Rumor Mora fears hellhounds too strong for him to kill, and failure. Jude Welton dreams that humans will stop killing monsters, and his strange abilities will vanish. In no reality should a boy raised to love monsters fall for a boy raised to kill them. Nyx Llorca secret is that the moon speaks to her, and she's in love with her best friend, Dahlia. Braeden Tennant wants to get out from his mother's shadow, and to unlearn Epsilon colony's darkest secret. During one twenty-seven-hour night, these four runaways must stop the war between the colonies and the monsters from becoming a war of extinction, or the things they fear most will be all that's left"--Jacket flap.

Subject(s):

Monsters -- Juvenile fiction.

Gay teenagers -- Juvenile fiction.

Runaway teenagers -- Juvenile fiction.

Space colonies -- Juvenile fiction.

Genre:

Holds:

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Summary

Rumor Mora fears two things: hellhounds too strong for him to kill, and failure. Jude Welton has two dreams: for humans to stop killing monsters, and for his strange abilities to vanish.

But in no reality should a boy raised to love monsters fall for a boy raised to kill them.

Nyx Llorca keeps two secrets: the moon speaks to her, and she's in love with her best friend, Dahlia. Braeden Tennant wants two things: to get out from his mother's shadow, and to unlearn his colony's darkest secret.

To save everyone they love, they'll both have to commit treason.

During one twenty-seven-hour night, these four runaways must stop the war between the colonies and the monsters from becoming a war of extinction, or the things they fear most will be all that's left.

Author Notes

Tristina Wright is a writer and online advocate for accurate bisexual representation. When she's not writing stories that combine science fiction and magic, she can be found colouring her hair various shades of blue, contemplating new tattoos, and hanging out with her family. www.tristinawright.com.

Reviews (3)

Horn Book Review

Rumor, Nyx, Dahlia, Jude, and Braeden live on the same planet, but they come from vastly different backgrounds. Raised to either fear or befriend the native gargoyles, the teens have twenty-seven hours to untangle the politics behind human-monster warfare and save their planet. These characters, with a laudably wide range of gender and sexual identities, ultimately lead readers to question what makes someone human. (c) Copyright 2019. The Horn Book, Inc., a wholly owned subsidiary of Media Source, Inc. No redistribution permitted.

Kirkus Review

Human teens attempt to preserve their home on an alien world in Wright's YA debut. On the distant moon Sahara, where night lasts 27 hours and is lit by the blue-green glow of a nearby gas giant, human colonists do battle with the chimeras native to this strange world. Rumor has been training to fight them since his mother was killed years ago, but during an overwhelming attack on his settlement, he isn't able to save his father. Nyx is deaf, though the moon beneath her feet speaks to her in strange ways, encouraging her to abandon her settlement and live among the rebels of the forest. Jude is one of these rebels, seeking peace between the humans and chimeras, which are beings with "great wings and long fingers and mountainous crags of teeth connected to jaws that could crush stars and inhale comets." Braeden is the son of his settlement's leader and suspects that the cause of the attacks might have something do with the chimera that his parents imprisoned in their basement. As the enemy prepares for another attack, these four teens will have to find a way to put a stop to the conflict, which will likely end in the annihilation of humans from Sahara's surface. They only have 27 hours to complete this task, and given the way things have been going, it will be a miracle if any of them survive the long night. Wright writes in a snappy prose that serves the book's tense action sequences: "The gargoyle launched, clawing the air where he'd just stood. It landed on the other side of him, sliding in the loose gravel as Rumor rolled and came up to a crouch, his blades ready." The pacing is swift, and the storyline leaps among the perspectives of the four main characters in a way that gradually builds the reader's understanding of the situation. In addition to its captivating humans-versus-monsters premise, the book features an admirably broad treatment of gender and sexualityLGBT and asexual characters serve as the norm rather than the exceptionin this futuristic world. Readers will come away hoping that further installments are in the works. An open, imaginative work of YA science fiction. Copyright Kirkus Reviews, used with permission.

Booklist Review

On Sahara, a planet where human colonists must vigilantly defend themselves from a species of vicious nocturnal beasts, each night lasts for 27 hours. After the enemy strikes Rumor's home, only he can escape to warn the nearest human settlement. But when he is rescued by Jude, a boy who calls the beasts his family, Rumor must question his entire worldview. In the race to prevent cataclysmic war, Rumor and Jude ally with other brave teens, including Nyx, a deaf heroine who can sense the living planet. In a sprawling drama narrated from multiple perspectives, debut author Wright introduces a dynamic ensemble cast of LGBTQ+ characters who forge an unbreakable trust. Her vividly imagined rival species outshines a murkier treatment of the planet and its convoluted conflict. A rushed climax leaves plenty of issues unresolved for a sequel. The clear highlight of this book is the strong relationships among its eclectic heroes, who strike the reader as lifelike enough to aspire to.--Kelly, Carolyn Copyright 2018 Booklist