Summer Days and Summer Nights by Stephanie Perkins

Their dragons are finally mature enough for them to compete for Firstrider, a position of power that can give Lee back a small part of what his family lost. Nine years later, a new generation of dragonriders is emerging, children selected and trained on merit, not bloodlines. For too long the dragonriders held all the power while their people starved and lived in fear. What happens to the world after the dust from a revolution has settled?įriends Annie and Lee were children from very different circles when Atreus killed Lee’s father, dragonlord Leon Stormscourge, ending the uprising on the bloodiest day in Callipolis’ history.

Fans of survivalist fiction will be impressed by the well-researched, immersive Alaskan landscape and all its beauty and brutality.Ī tightly plotted thriller helmed by a firecracker that never loses her spark. Logan’s less dynamic, hyperfocused on ensuring Maddie’s safety when she’s not the one who needs saving. Maddie’s grit, humor, and cleverness make her an engaging action hero. But Logan brings dangerous baggage with him, and with her father away for the night, it’s up to Maddie to keep them both safe. His perspective highlights a privileged, reckless life, leading the president to administer a unique punishment: staying with Maddie and her father in Alaska. She becomes skilled in the ways of the wilderness, her anger at Logan building. For six years there’s no contact Maddie spends two years writing to him with no response. Soon Maddie and Logan are thousands of miles apart, she in rural Alaska and he in the White House. Maddie’s father decides they must move somewhere with no phones, no internet, no access. But when Russians attempt an attack on Logan and the first lady, everything changes. Maddie’s father’s job was to keep the president safe, and as the president’s son, that meant Logan too. Maddie and Logan, both white, were best friends at age 10.

Estranged best friends must come together to survive man-made threats in the harsh Alaskan wilderness.

Summer Days and Summer Nights by Stephanie Perkins