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The year is 1909. It has been ten years since Thomas Argyle, Charlie Cooper and Livia Naylor set off a revolution by releasing Smoke upon the world. They were raised to think Smoke was a sign of sin manifested, but learned its suppression was really a means of controlling society. Smoke allowed people to mingle their emotions, to truly connect, and the trio thought that freeing the Smoke would bring down the oppressive power structure and create a fair and open society. But the consequences were far greater than they had imagined, and the world has fractured.
Erasmus Renfrew, the avowed enemy of Smoke, is now Lord Protector of what remains of the English state. Charlie and Livia live in Minetowns, an egalitarian workers' community in the north of England which lives by Smoke. Thomas Argyle is in India on a clandestine mission to find out the origins of Smoke, and why the still-powerful Company is mounting an expedition in the Himalayas.
Mowgli, the native whose body was used to trigger the tempest that unleashed the Smoke, now calls himself Nils and is a chameleon-like thief living in New York. And Eleanor Renfrew, Erasmus' niece who was the subject of his cruel experiments in suppressing Smoke, is in hiding from her uncle in provincial Canada. What she endured has given her a strange power over Smoke, which she fears as much as her uncle.
Believing her uncle's agents have found her, she flees to New York with a theater troupe led by Balthazar Black, an impresario with secrets of his own. There they encounter Nils and a Machiavellian Company man named Smith.
All these people seek to discover the true nature of Smoke, and thereby control its power. As their destinies entwine, a cataclysmic confrontation looms, and the Smoke will either bind them together or rend the world.
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OverDrive Listen audiobook
- ISBN: 9780735206816
- File size: 638964 KB
- Duration: 22:11:10
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- English
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October 21, 2019
Vyleta returns to the blackened streets of the late-Victorian-era dystopia introduced in Smoke in this ambitious but overlong sequel. In the first book, Smoke—a physical manifestation of thoughts that causes black clouds to emanate from the skin when a person is feeling strong emotions—was released in an attempt to create an equal society; however, the rich conspired to purge themselves of this new way to mingle emotions. Now, 10 years after Smoke was released, Vyleta’s narrative moves beyond Britain, jumping between the story of Eleanor Renfrew, the niece of the Lord Protector of England, as she hides from her power-hungry uncle in Canada with a Smoke-powered acting troupe, and Mowgli, whose body was used to unleash Smoke on the world, as he scrapes by as a thief in New York City under his new moniker, “Nil.” When Eleanor believes her uncle has found her, she flees to New York with the performing troupe of Balthazar Black. There she meets Nil, as well as a mysterious agent from the Machiavellian Company named Smith, and a beetle that seems to possess strange qualities. This band of misfits believe they have figured out ways to control Smoke and return to England for the final confrontation with the Lord Protector. Vyleta’s bold vision of a society controlled by dark emotions looms large in this stunning, if long-winded, conclusion to a remarkably inventive tale.
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