{"id":173,"date":"2016-11-15T03:55:18","date_gmt":"2016-11-15T03:55:18","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/dragonauthors.com\/bookwyrms\/?p=173"},"modified":"2018-08-10T01:11:45","modified_gmt":"2018-08-10T05:11:45","slug":"the-city-in-the-mountains","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/dragonauthors.com\/bookwyrms\/2016\/11\/15\/the-city-in-the-mountains\/","title":{"rendered":"The City in the Mountains by Valerie Noble"},"content":{"rendered":"<h3>Sci-Fi Action with a Kick-Ass Heroine<\/h3>\n<h5><img decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignnone size-full wp-image-218\" src=\"https:\/\/dragonauthors.com\/bookwyrms\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/02\/tiny-star.png\" alt=\"\" width=\"30\" height=\"30\" \/><img decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignnone size-full wp-image-218\" src=\"https:\/\/dragonauthors.com\/bookwyrms\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/02\/tiny-star.png\" alt=\"\" width=\"30\" height=\"30\" \/><img decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignnone size-full wp-image-218\" src=\"https:\/\/dragonauthors.com\/bookwyrms\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/02\/tiny-star.png\" alt=\"\" width=\"30\" height=\"30\" \/><img decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignnone size-full wp-image-218\" src=\"https:\/\/dragonauthors.com\/bookwyrms\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/02\/tiny-star.png\" alt=\"\" width=\"30\" height=\"30\" \/><img decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignnone size-full wp-image-218\" src=\"https:\/\/dragonauthors.com\/bookwyrms\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/02\/tiny-star.png\" alt=\"\" width=\"30\" height=\"30\" \/><\/h5>\n<p>Ever since Kaia was born, she has been taught that the alien Descenders rescued a dying Earth from the brink of ecological disaster. Now she lives in a sustainable utopia, in which all human beings and Descenders alike must \u201cearn\u201d the energy they use. Athletes are the rock stars of this future world, producing enough energy to bring wealth and prosperity to their home grids, and Kaia is already one of the best.<\/p>\n<p>But there is a Resistance brewing\u2014rebel Descenders are plotting against their own government and its strange genetic experimentation. Are Kaia\u2019s purple eyes and extra-sensory abilities the signs they have been waiting for? Is she the first evolutionary leap of humanity, the one that could save the Descenders from their own looming extinction?<\/p>\n<p><!--more--><\/p>\n<p>In <em>The City in the Mountains<\/em>, book two of Valerie Noble\u2019s series,\u00a0<em>The Energy Crusades<\/em>, Kaia is ripped away from the boy she loves and forced to fight for her own survival on an alien world. Will she agree to be the pawn the government wants her to be? Or will the resistance turn her into a poster child for their own mysterious agenda?<\/p>\n<p>Torn between two factions in a war that was never her own\u2014and torn between the childhood love she left behind on Earth and the young man on Danu who might be her only chance for an ally\u2014Kaia will have to find her inner strength as \u201cthe girl with the purple eyes\u201d if she is to survive on an alien planet, define her own fate, and find her way back home.<\/p>\n<p>This sequel is a stellar continuation of the series. We already loved Kaia after the first book, and we loved her more with every new page. There are enough twists and turns that anything else would be a spoiler. 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