The Island Prime: The Engines of Regret by Dave Landon (.ePUB)
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The Engines of Regret by Dave Landon (The Island Prime: 3)
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Overview: Eight months of hard-won peace. One pulse from under the throne room. And a debt older than any iteration Silas has ever counted.
The island has finally started to feel like a place people can live instead of merely survive. Camp is stable. Veterans are choosing to go home. New arrivals are learning that the hardest truth can be said out loud and still leave you standing. Silas has almost convinced himself the quiet will last.
Then the ground itself answers.
Deep beneath the archive, older than the System, older than the throne, something vast and patient has begun to fail. Narrative Energy is bleeding away at a slow, relentless rate. Gardens wither. Ambient dread rises. The numbers climb in the wrong direction. And the only person who knows why is a woman who faked her own death eleven years ago and has been running ever since.
Eleanor Voss stole a piece of the island to save the man she loved.It didn’t work. The wound never closed. Now Meridian’s new director wants her back—and the fragment she took—by any means necessary. Meanwhile the camp must decide whether one person’s eleven-year silence is a private failure or a collective cost they all have to pay.
Truth on day one was only the beginning. Building something afterward was the next step. This time the island asks something harder: what regret is actually for, and whether the heaviest burdens were ever meant to be carried alone.
Genre: Fiction > Sci-Fi/Fantasy
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