So I enjoyed getting to continue Thalli’s story, to delve deeper into her relationships with Berk, John and Rhen, to put her in a new setting and see how she reacted.Īnd that new setting – talk about fun! Thalli is aboveground, on the earth that was destroyed by nuclear attacks four decades before.

My first three books had some characters that carried over from one book to the next, but they’re all three stand-alone novels.

I’d never written a trilogy before this one. This was a fun book to write, on many levels. She encounters not just one, but two settlements, and interacts with people whose lives have been very different from hers. Thalli and her friends are aboveground, leaving the State – the only world she’s ever known. “Luminary, the second book in the Anomaly trilogy, is quite different from the first book. Genres: Young Adult Science Fiction > Dystopia Apocalyptic > Post Apocalyptic Christian Fiction She hears stories of a Designer-stories that fill her mind with more questions: Who can she trust? What is this emotion called love? And what if she isn’t just an anomaly, but part of a greater design? The more time she spends in the Scientist’s Pod, the clearer it becomes that things are not as simple as she was programmed to believe. But before that can happen, Berk-her former Pod mate who is being groomed as a Scientist-steps in and persuades the Scientists to keep Thalli alive as a test subject. Seen as a threat to the harmony of her Pod, Thalli is taken to the Scientists for immediate annihilation. Thalli has kept her malformation secret from those who have monitored her for most of her life, but when she receives an ancient piece of music to record as her community’s assigned musician, she can no longer keep her emotions secreted away. The Ten scientists who survived the nuclear war that destroyed the world above believe that emotion was at the core of what went wrong-and they have genetically removed it from the citizens they have since created. Thalli is different than others in The State. The toxic gas that will complete her annihilation is invading her bloodstream. Thalli has fifteen minutes and twenty-three seconds left to live. About Anomaly – first book in the series:

First date by krista mcgee