Fun Read Friday: Secrets In The Mist

It was one of those days I was not expecting anything amazing to happen. Tasks on my to-do list, children demanding to be fed … again, and the cat singing a mournful ballad to be loved. The usual. But then, an email came my way. The kind of email that makes you stop and take notice.

New Release!

Yes, you know the magic and allure this kind of email can have over a reader. I opened this email and what did I find? A new Morgan Busse release.

To be honest, there are a few Morgan Busse books on my kindle, but I’m ashamed to say, I have yet to read one. So I would have probably bought it anyway, but then the cover (Gorgeous). The back cover blurb (Tantalizing). The genre (Dystopian/Steampunk). It all hit me at once. It was magnificent. I immediately bought it and swiped to the first page. From then on, I was hooked, and nothing was going to stop me from reading. (Well, except for those children wanting food, and cat needing love, but other than that…)

Secrets in the Mist is the first book in Morgan’s Skyworld series, and it starts off with characters that you will love and a setting that is both beautiful and hauntingly terrifying.

Orphaned at fourteen, Cass has survived on her own for four years. The Mist, left over from the Plague Wars, surrounds much of the world except for the tops of mountains, making the lower lands an inhospitable place full of Turned. The Mist is full of toxic spores, and if someone is unlucky enough to breathe them, they will become one of the Turned; dead, but the spores animate their body.

Hungry, Cass steals food from an airship, the Daedelus, only to be caught by the captain. Captain Gresley is a kind and compassionate man who offers Cass a job diving down into the Mist to retrieve any item they are paid to get. It’s an offer Cass can’t refuse.

Meanwhile, Theo is a member of one of the ruling families. Living on a sky island reserved for the wealthy, he is curious and scientifically minded. He wants to find a solution for the Mist. But there are others who want his research and quest stopped.

When Theo hires Cass and her crew to help him retrieve something that could help, he and Cass set out on an adventure that could be the end of them all.

Near the end, I read as fast as I could to see what happened to Cass and Theo, and let me tell you, I can’t wait until book two comes out. Morgan leaves us on a huge cliffhanger. Highly recommended for teens and adults.