Beware the Night (The Offering, #1)

by Jessika Fleck

When her world divides, pitting light against dark, Veda must join a dangerous revolution to save her grandfather and fight against injustice...even if it costs her the boy she loves.

On the island of Bellona, life is peaceful—as long as the citizens dutifully worship the Sun, which protects them from all harm. Seventeen-year-old Veda knows that keeping the Sun happy will protect her and her grandfather from the Night, the dangerous people who snatch innocent citizens from their beds under the cover of darkness, never to be seen again. As long as Veda follows the rules, she will be safe.

But when Veda's grandfather is offered up as the next sacrificial offering to keep the Sun's favor, she starts to see that the safety she's been promised comes at a dangerous price. Maybe there is more to fear above than there is below.

With a mysterious young man, Dorian, at her side, Veda has to figure out if the scary bedtime stories she grew up hearing are real—or dangerous lies.

• ISBN10: 1250154758
• ISBN13: 9781250154750
• Publish Date: 1 April 2019
• Publish Status: Active
• Out of Print: 11 March 2021
• Publish Country: US
• Imprint: St Martin's Press
• Format: Hardcover
• Pages: 304
• Language: English

Reviews

[tweetybugshouse]

This is great story with complicated relationships. The main crux of the story is one that has been written about in hundreds of various YA stories. Rich part of the land versus the lower class. Add to the fact that the whole island knows about this organization that terrorizes the lower classes. The rich celebrate it up in the nice homes while the lower class cower in basements as their homes are ripped apart. Veda been told her whole life that her parents were killed by the night. Her best friend is one of the elite and though they don’t say it i think the only ones who are offered up as sacrifices to appease the sun are the poor as well. This is a novel with political twists, a love triangle and savior who never knew she be the one to save the world. It edge of your seat good and I interested in what the sequel Defy the Sun will be about.