![]() ![]() ![]() Anyway, she has little or no choice about what will happen to her, but she continues to fight against her fate and her oppressive society and government. But Ani’s River People are powerless in the governmental system of this world, and Ani may be infected after all. When Ani is arrested and taken to the lowlands town to be tested for The Scourge, she knows it must be a mistake. ![]() Maybe that minimal contact is the reason that the Scourge, a deadly infectious disease that is rampant in the pinchworms, hasn’t yet infected the River People. I felt the prose and dialog were poorly written, and the plot was contrived and didn’t make sense a lot of the time.Īni Mills is one of the River People who live up-country in a primitive and poverty-stricken culture, and she and her fellow “grubs” don’t have much to do with the townsfolk who they call “pinchworms”. But The Scourge just didn’t connect with me. I am a fan of Jennifer Nielsen’s Ascendance Trilogy, beginning with The False Prince, and I read her historical fiction book set in East Berlin, A Night Divided, and enjoyed it too. ![]()
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