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    The Severed Tower: A Conquered Earth Novel

    By J. Barton Mitchell

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    J. Barton Mitchell's sci-fi tour de force Conquered Earth series set in an alien-invaded post-apocalyptic world returns as the children forge deeper into the most dangerous lands in search of The Severed Tower

    Holt, Mira, and Max have fled Midnight City with Zoey after watching her repel an entire Assembly army. Zoey's powers are unlocked, but who and what she is remains a mystery. All she knows is that she must reach the Severed Tower, an infamous location in the middle of the world's most dangerous landscape: The Strange Lands, a place where the laws of physics have completely broken down. But the closer they get to the Tower, the more precarious things become. The Assembly has pursued Zoey into the Strange Lands. Among them is a new group, their walkers and machines strangely bereft of any color, stripped to bare metal, and whose agenda seems to differ from the rest. To make matters worse, the group hunting Holt are here, too, led by a dangerous and beautiful pirate named Ravan. So is Mira's first love, Benjamin Aubertine, whose singular ambition to reach the Tower threatens to get them all killed.

    Then there's the Strange Lands themselves. They have inexplicably begun to grow, spreading outwards, becoming more powerful. Somehow, it all seems tied to Zoey herself, and the closer she gets to the Tower, the weaker she becomes.

    LanguageEnglish
    PublisherMacmillan Publishers
    Release dateNov 19, 2013
    ISBN9781250020703
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    The Severed Tower: A Conquered Earth Novel
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    J. Barton Mitchell

    J. BARTON MITCHELL is a screenwriter, comic book writer, and author. He studied creative writing at the University of Houston before going on to receive a B.S. in Film Studies from the University of Texas. After selling screenplays to Warner Bros. and 20th Century Fox, he created and wrote the comic book series Poe, published by Boom! Studios in 2009. Mitchell lives and writes in the Los Feliz area of Los Angeles.

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    • 3/5
      Holt, Mira and Zoey are headed towards the Severed Tower, which is in the middle of the Strange Lands. If that is confusing then you know I felt. I did not know that this was the second book in a series and followed Midnight City. There isn’t any recap so if you haven’t read the first one, I’d suggest that you should. As far a dystopian novel goes; it is very detailed with good character development and action too. There are sci-fi and fantasy elements which makes this some book.
    • 5/5
      5 Stars*I got this book through a goodreads giveaway*Since this is a sequel in a series I will not do a synopsis. It’s hard not to spoil it if I do.I always get a little worried when reading a sequel. I usually don’t like them near as much as the first. That wasn’t the case here at all. If I could give this one more than five stars I would. The action alone makes this one incredible and quick paced. Plus the characters and their conflicting personalities make the relationships fun to experience. This novel (plus the previous one) could easily feel cluttered and disorienting but the author balances all the components very well. If a reader is intimidated by science fiction this is a series that I would recommend. This has a little bit of everything to keep any reader happy. I am impatient for the next installment.