In the final installment of Andrew
Fukuda’s
The Hunt Series,
The Trap, Gene and Sissy now know they
are the cure. On a speeding train headed straight for the Ruler’s palace they
have no other options than to pray and try and escape once they are there. Once
inside the palace, Sissy, Gene and the rest of the Dome kids manage to escape
the tunnels; but watch in horror as the Mission girls are slaughtered and eaten
alive by the Duskers working in the train tunnels. They thought they might be
safe from the Duskers hiding in the lighted elevator, but when the elevator
takes them to the highest tower of the palace they realize how wrong they were.
When the elevator lets them out, it
is into a cest pool of unclean human bodies. They have entered the holding pen
of Hepers that the palace keeps on hand. Everyone there is starved, unhappy and
they know that death is imminent. But Gene and Sissy don’t want to give into
the tower’s melancholy. They immediately start trying to figure away out of the
tower, and a way to head East, Gene’s original destination and the land of Milk
and Honey. All to soon the alarms sound, the Ruler is going to pick out his
meal.
Gene and Sissy get taken, but not
to the Ruler. There is an entire underground organization within the palace, an
organization of Hepers. They want Gene and Sissy’s blood. The organization has
been building an arsenal of weapons that when fused with the Origin will turn
and Dusker it hits back into a human. The organization spends the day draining
them of blood, to the point right before they pass out and then send them back
to the holding pen, less the Ruler discover their absence during an inspection.
The Ruler has something else in
mind for Gene. While nothing would be more satisfying than to eat the Heper who
lived amoung them for years unnoticed, the Heper who made the Hunt look stupid;
there is something more important. Taking down Ashley June.
Ashley June had been Gene’s first
love, living just down the street from him Gene never knew that she was a
Heper, but she knew all about him. During the Hunt they made plans, but Ashley
June sacrificed herself for him and in doing so was turned into a Dusker. The
Palace believes that she had always been one of them, just using a heper
perfume to confuse the other players. Now Ashley June is working against the
Palace, turning the people on the ruler, telling secrets and undermining the
government. What is worse, the rest of the population is believing her, joining
her movement.
Even in her Dusker state, she still
loves Gene. The Ruler is sending Gene and Sissy to the Metropolis to kill
Ashley June. Gene lived there for nearly two decades without being discovered,
and is the only one even possibly capable of taking her down. Promises of
freedom for them and the other Dome kids are what gets Gene and Sissy to corroborate
in the assassination of Ashley June.
Gene sets out with alterier
motives, he wants to turn Ashley June back even if it means betraying Sissy,
but the secrets that Ashley June knows are more dangerous then he could ever
imagine. Everything he has ever been told about himself, the Hepers and the
Duskers has been a lie. Tryign to deside what is right and wrong isn’t so easy
anymore, conflict between his old feeling for Ashley June and the relationship
he has spent the last year cultivating with Sissy are at a head. But the
secrets about who he really is, and the “cure” he and Sissy represent are coming
to the surface and Gene no longer knows what to believe.
I honestly sort of forgot about this book, I think I read it at the beginning of January and never really took the time to write or even thing about it. What does that tell you about the book? A bit boring actually. To much cheesy romance, predictable plot lines, and over done vampires, werwolves and other mythical creatures. Just the main characters name is pretentious. Eryn, with a y?! No offense to real life Eryns, but really? Trying to make the characters seem more mystic by adding "Ys" where they don't belong is so aggravating.
