Icons (2013)Margaret Stohl
Grade: B+
Genre: YA / dystopian
Source: NetGalley
Icons: (1) Icons
Nothing was the same after The Day. The Day when the Lords came, causing 13 Icons to fall from the sky, generating a powerful electromagnetic field that halted all electrical activity within a certain radius. The Day when 13 of the world's biggest cities became silent, dependent only upon the electricity generated by the Icons that the Lords permitted them to use. The Day that 1 billion lives came to an end.
Doloria Maria de la Cruz is an Icon Child, marked out as different
by the tiny grey dot on her wrist, just “one small circle the color of the sea
in the rain … [her] destiny.” Her parents and brothers died on The Day when she
was just a baby, and she and her best friend Ro have been brought up together
by Padre in the Grasslands, areas outside the cities, untouched by the power of
the Icons and the control of the Lords and the Embassies. On the day of her
seventeenth birthday, everything changes.
