The Last Life of Avrilis

As a Sentient living at the end of time, sixteen-year-old Avrilis is one of the few to know that life repeats, replaying a script exactly. As an orphan cloistered in her home for the past three years, she knows that even a scripted life can suddenly change. It has, this time around. Her mother died; her father disappeared. Her only companions have been the other planet in the sky, her memory of a boy called Isaac, and the protective "halo" that absorbs the electricity a Sentient creates by living off-script - even if they didn't have a choice.

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Leaving home is Avrilis' only chance at finding the real Isaac and uncovering what ruined her family's script, making this lifetime go so terribly wrong - but outside, zealots are preying on anyone who defies the planets with change. When Avrilis saves the life of a vagabond moments before he'll die, she means him to be her protection. Instead, the two find the subterranean Sentient city - and that the father who abandoned her has a plan to end the world for good. Now she'll cross the sky from her planet to the other and find out whether this world is worth saving - as long as the zealots and the end of time don't catch up to her first.

Audience
young adult
Length
medium · 300 pages

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