Fallen World
“As pretty as her body might be, it’s not what’s captivated
me. I can’t look away from her face. In another life it might’ve been sweet.
But not in this one. A Wicked scar slices down the side of it. It’s the most obvious
warning that she’s a dangerous creature.”—Montes Lazuli
Fallen World is the story of Serenity Freeman but you can’t
tell Serenity’s story without Montes Lazuli. He is, after all, her boogeyman,
her monster, and in the end he’ll be her catalyst.
Serenity is a soldier in the Western United Nations. Over
the course of her young life a cataclysmic war rages that strips her of her
mother, her home, her country, and her innocence. Forced to take a life at the
age of 12 due to war Serenity is not your typical hero. She’s a hardened vicious
soul, broken in all the wrong places and her jagged edges will cut you bloody
if you cross her. Serenity is not a shining example of goodness, some unattainable
paragon of virtue and she doesn’t pretend to be. She’s the anti-hero of this story,
the young woman forced onto the stage of political intrigue and tasked with the
duty of ending the war between the West and the East.
Montes Lazuli is the undying king that kicked off World War
3. It started with a plague that swept through Europe making room for Montes to
rise from obscure wealthy businessman to the King of the East. He’s been waging
war on the Western United Nations and now their surrender is at hand. When the
WUN sends Serenity and her Father as emissaries to negotiate peace Montes is
captivated by this viscous, hardened woman. He sees Serenity as a challenge. Perhaps
his greatest war will be, not in claiming land but in claiming her.
Serenity's story takes place over three books. The overall
arching story has great themes of diplomacy, morality, feminism and threading
through it all the greatest themes, love and forgiveness. Laura Thalassa weaves
a masterful post-apocalyptic story that at times feels very authentic and
relevant to present day. It’s a bit sobering to see how this fictional future could
very easily become a non-fictional one and that’s the sign of a master
storyteller.
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