I was really excited about the ‘heiress and the outlaw’ storyline and what adventures were to come with that pairing. This is a YA, cyberpunk, sci-fi read staring LGBTQ characters. It is an above average debut, and definitely an entertaining read, but I just didn’t connect to it like I had hoped for. While I did like the read, it might be a case of my expectations being too high as I didn’t enjoy this like I was hoping to. This book was one of my most anticipated books of 2021, so I was very excited to get my hands on it.

As one of Requiem’s 154-hour nights grows darker, the girls must decide whether to fend for themselves or fight for each other before Riven’s city and Asa’s sister are snuffed out forever.ģ.50 A solid debut. exploits the girls’ darkest memories and deepest secrets, threatening to shatter the fragile alliance they’re both depending on. Riven breaks skulls the way Asa breaks circuits, but their opponent is unlike anything they’ve ever seen. To get the payout for Asa and save Requiem from the monster in its circuits, Riven must team up with her captive. A runaway rich girl is exactly the bounty Riven needs-until a nasty computer virus spreads in Asa’s wake, causing a citywide blackout and tech quarantine. Gun-slinging smuggler Riven Hawthorne is determined to claw her way up Requiem’s underworld hierarchy. hunting her, Asa’s getaway ship crash-lands in the worst possible place: the neon-drenched outlaw paradise, Requiem. With a bounty on her head and a rogue A.I. But when he uploads her rebellious sister’s mind to an experimental brain, Asa will do anything to save her sister from reprogramming-including fleeing her predetermined future with her sister’s digitized mind in tow. As darkness closes in on the city of shattered light, an heiress and an outlaw must decide whether to fend for themselves or fight for each other.Īs heiress to a powerful tech empire, seventeen-year-old Asa Almeida strives to prove she's more than her manipulative father's shadow.

City of Shattered Light by Claire Winn