Notes on a Rebellion - Valentina Hepburn

'A 21st Century Odyssey, the tale of a desperate trek through a changing world, a sea voyage riding Silver Wolf Knights, a battle against swarms of flying sea-serpents, an encounter or two with angels...and a love story. It's wonderful. One surprise after another'. Molly Cochran, New York Times Best Selling Author 'The protagonist has a personal agenda of answers she is searching for, as is expected with all stories. The difference here, is that the so-called "Heroine" is just an ordinary girl with a slingshot, someone easily underestimated, until that indifference towards her turns out to be her greatest strength.' Guy Vestal If you love Suzanne Collins, THE HUNGER GAMES, or Allie Condie's, MATCHED you'll love this. After joining a renegade bunch of raiders from an exiles prison compound in an attack on Castle Firamodor, the island stronghold of the cruel Thayne soldiers, Random Knight must make a judgement that throws her into the path of a brutal and terrifying adversary who will think nothing of killing her and her friends. Their enemies who have survived the changing climate do everything in their power to prevent them from saving their community, either from certain starvation after the Thayne steal grain and seeds intended for the exiles, or from nightly attacks by the Nicor, winged sea-serpents that drop sulphur bombs onto their prey, turning anything they hit into soup! The Thayne and Nicor are not the exiles only enemies. In the course of their expedition they must overcome other dangers such as the XYLIA, flesh eating nymphs who enchant men with their singing only to capture them and store them in their larder, the TANGIE, a monstrous water horse that threatens the raiders as they cross an ice-melt, and the KUNE-AH-NOON, a pack of vicious three-headed dogs trained by the Thayne to kill on sight. Notes on a Rebellion is a powerful novel set in 2046, a year when 'The Warming' is a reality, and when flying aliens hunt the earth to find sanctuary in the only atmosphere that will support them. The community of imprisoned exiles have accepted they and their families will die. Random Knight thinks very differently!