![]() Older daughter Abigail is a fugitive on the run, and the Hadley parents have been sent to the industrial slavetown Millmoor (conveniently removing them from the action). ![]() ![]() Their teenage son Luke is now a prisoner of the sadistic Lord Crovan, accused of murdering a prominent Equal. But the experience has turned disastrous in only a few months. In Gilded Cage (here’s your warning of some spoilers for that book), the Hadley family decided to serve their slavedays together, hoping to work them out on the Jardine estate in relative comfort. The heaviest burden is the slavedays, a ten year period that each ordinary person is required to spend serving at the whim of the Equals. In this alternate version of our world, England is controlled by a minority group, the ironically-named Equals, who have magical powers and brutally use them to enforce their rule on everyone who isn’t magically skilled. Tarnished City, the second book in Vic James’s DARK GIFTS YA fantasy series, is a hard-hitting novel that picks right up where Gilded Cage left off, without any infodumping to remind the reader what happened in the first book. Review first posted on Fantasy Literature: ![]()
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