Skyhunter (Skyhunter, #1)

by Marie Lu

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Marie Lu has hit it out of the park again with another gut wrenching, edge of your seat story. This time we are in a land where Talin is a striker who works for her country of Mara to destroy Ghosts sent by the Federation to take over her home well the home she now lives in. The Federation destroyed her homeland in their continued conquest of the world. From the first part of the book your heart is ripped out when Talin partner is killed by a Ghost. Now these are not Ghosts ohh spooky haunting you these are men who have been changed into zombie like hunters that have to be killed by hitting a major vein in their neck. If you get bitten then you can be turned so you have to be killed when it happens.

Talin is not a native to Mara she only became a striker cause her partner wanted her and the king agreed to it. Once she looses him she fears she will be stripped of her striker position and thrown out or killed. Instead she rescues a federation prisoner from being killed and ends up being paired with him. Which leads to a whole series of events that will keep you reading up to the very end. What would you do to rescue those you love, allow yourself to be turned into a monster? At the end of book one you will be on the edge of your seat as Talin is forced to make some very difficult choices.