Describing a book can be a difficult thing to do, especially for an author.
With Atchem ending and the darkness of Talium looming, Una is faced.
The further she explores a possible arrangement with Blue that could very well change her and her family\'s situation, the more is revealed about family secrets that leaves her reeling and wondering if she even knows who she is.
She is taken by this gentle boy and finds herself drawn to him, but cannot understand her brother Calish\'s seeming vehemence to the young Citizen whom he hardly even knows.
But after catching the eye and affections of Blue, the grandson of a local farmer, Una wonders if this could be the thing that rescues her and her family from the inevitable.
Una fears this above all else as this would mean never seeing her family again.
For Citizens, the transition to Womanhood is a momentous occasion but for Scabs, it just means being sold to the highest bidder as a wife, a surrogate, or worse.
As the Season of Atchem draws to a close and the yearly festival nears to usher in the dark months of Talium, Una faces a coming of age for which she is not prepared.
Una is fortunate however, as her family seems to have found a curious favor with a local farmer who secretly provides her family with many needed items.
Her people survive by reclaiming still useful items discarded by the Citizenry as no longer needed.
As a Scavenger, Una and her people are not permitted to have money or jobs outside of what they can do to work their lands and can never accept gifts from the Citizens.
Among the lowest caste in her society, sometimes referred to as "scabs" or Reclaimers, Una and all others like her must survive without the luxury of the comforts of being a Citizen or the protection of the Authority.
Una is a Scavenger.
She did a review of the book and I believe it captures all the things that any prospective reader would want to know.
It comes from the blog Jennly Reads.
So here is one of the best descriptions that I have seen.
Describing a book can be a difficult thing to do, especially for an author
