We meet our hero and heroine almost from the start. Black City is on the brink of war, and the government is determined to eliminate all the dissidents

Now they want to fight back for their freedom.

There are different kinds of darklings, but most live in peace, until their lives where threatened by this government. Their taking of human blood, gives humans a high, like a drug. What is a Darkling you ask? They are sort of vampires, as they are pale, have fangs, and need blood. Richards’ Black City is now being added to the excellent dystopian novels of the year that I have read.īlack City is city in ruins, with the city divided by the Sentry, who are in charge the humans, who want to revolt against the government and their horrible living conditions and lastly, the Darklings, who are living in worse conditions, and most are segregated by a wall, that separates them from the rest of the people. I have read many of these this year, and most of them were excellent. When Ash and Natalie then find themselves at the center of a deadly conspiracy that threatens to pull the humans and Darklings back into war, they must make hard choices that could result in both their deaths.īlack City by Elizabeth Richards is another YA Dystopian story. Bonded by a mysterious connection that causes Ash’s long-dormant heart to beat, Ash and Natalie first deny and then struggle to fight their forbidden feelings for each other, knowing if they’re caught, they’ll be executed-but their feelings are too strong. In a city where humans and Darklings are now separated by a high wall and tensions between the two races still simmer after a terrible war, sixteen-year-olds Ash Fisher, a half-blood Darkling, and Natalie Buchanan, a human and the daughter of the Emissary, meet and do the unthinkable-they fall in love. Black City by Elizabeth Richards – a Reviewĭark and tender post-apocalyptic love story set in the aftermath of a bloody war.

Black city by elizabeth richards