Veronica Rossi created a plot rich with romance and trying times, making their relationship as treacherous as it is heart-warming. Living in a world where love is defied and hardships go unnoticed when survival is a must, the second book in the Under the Never Sky trilogy is called Through the Ever Night, continuing the story of Aria and Perry.

Each turn of a page is met with unfathomable intrigue as Aria and Perry discover more about themselves and their surreal identities along the way. Under the Never Sky holds a post-apocalyptic/survivalist style to run-in-tow with the budding romance that makes this a valuable novel. That boy is later introduced as Perry, and their telling relationship soon began to grow into something so powerful, it needed to be destroyed. It is not a typical story, as Aria is found by a boy in search of his nephew taken by the dwellers. When certain outside savages are found within the city of Reverie, Aria is blamed and kicked to the cruel world outside the dome to survive. Aria is a girl trapped in a protected city called Reverie, stationed away from the outside world where people like Perry are “savages” as Aria and her people remain “dwellers”. With Aria and Perry both originating from separate bloodlines, their story is epic and heroic. Under the Never Sky opens a beautiful world full of cruelty and unwanted circumstance to the reader’s, bringing them along for the ride of redemption for young Perry and Aria as the two destructive, battle-worn worlds collide.

Aria being a dweller and Perry as a savage, not only is their common ground uncanny, but so is the blossoming relationship that captures the reader’s hearts. Throughout the chapters, Rossi brilliantly alternated between writing for Aria’s and Perry’s own points of view, allowing the reader to capture each character as they evolved not only throughout the book, but the entire series as well. The book follows through the points of view of two teenagers trying to survive in a protected dome untouched by the outside world, a girl named Aria and a boy named Perry.

The first of the trilogy, Under the Never Sky was released in January of 2012 as a young adult debut novel by Veronica Rossi.

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