Raging Sea

by Michael Buckley

Overview

In the first book of Michael Buckley’s Undertow trilogy, the Alpha arrived and the world was never the same. At the start of the second book, most of south Brooklyn is in ruins and the nation is terrified. Nearly everyone that Lyric Walker loves is either missing or presumed dead, including the mesmerizing prince Fathom. It’s up to Lyric to unite the Alpha before the second wave of a cataclysmic invasion wipes out mankind for good. The Undertow trilogy is an unforgettable reading experience that author E. Lockhart calls, "Allegorical and romantic, the book nevertheless reads like an action movie with especially awesome CGI."  

Product Details

ISBN-13:	9780544938823
Publisher:	HarperCollins
Publication date:	01/03/2017
Series:	Undertow Trilogy Series , #2
Edition description:	Reprint
Pages:	384
Product dimensions:	5.50(w) x 8.25(h) x 0.97(d)
Age Range:	12 - 18 Years

About the Author

Michael Buckley is the author of the New York Times bestselling series Sisters Grimm and NERDS. Before starting to write children’s books, he worked as a stand-up comic, television writer, advertising copywriter, and a singer in a punk rock band. He lives in Brooklyn, New York. Visit his website at www.michaelbuckleywrites.com.

Editorial Reviews

"Fans of the first title will clamor for this sequel..." –School Library Journal —

From the Publisher

2015-11-25
After the aquatic Rusalka's initial invasion in Undertow (2015), Alpha-human hybrid Lyric is a wanted terrorist looking for her family. Sometimes-enemy, sometimes-ally Doyle has revealed that the secret facility experimenting on captive Alphas and their families is in Texas. Lyric evades both a national manhunt (she's been publically declared the terrorist behind the attack on Coney Island) and roadblocks (designed to stifle the flow of refugee Coasters, those from the East Coast running for safety) with the help of human best friend Bex and Alpha warrior Arcade. Arcade trains Lyric for war, while Bex worries that Lyric's enjoying violence far too much. Complicating everything is the fact that Arcade is the fiancee of Lyric's love interest. The girls almost succeed in getting to the facility before the ruthless government contractors running it find them. (Since the operation is too dirty for the military, and corporations are so good at avoiding responsibility for egregious atrocities, torture has been privatized.) The sequence that follows is marked by a variety of betrayals and leads to a plan in which half-Alpha children like Lyric are sent to fight the Rusalka. Some plot elements may fail to hold water under close scrutiny, but frequent action scenes do much to distract readers. The characters' self-awareness and the importance given to friendships keep the romantic plots out of cliché territory. Watery fun right up to the cliffhanger for readers willing to go with the flow. (Fantasy. 13 & up)

Kirkus Reviews