Questa agghiacciante trilogia per giovani adulti immerge i lettori in un mondo post-cambiamento climatico, nettamente diviso tra coloro che vivono all'interno di un'Enclave protetta e coloro che si trovano all'esterno. La nostra eroina, una giovane levatrice, esaudisce le brutali richieste dell'Enclave finché sua madre non viene portata via con la forza. Questo tradimento la costringe a mettere in discussione tutto ciò che conosce e a intraprendere una pericolosa ricerca di verità e sopravvivenza. È un'avventura avvincente con una protagonista memorabile che ti terrà incollato alla pagina fino alla sua drammatica conclusione.
In the future, there are those who live inside the walled Enclave and those, like 16-year-old Gaia Stone, who live outside. Gaia delivers babies, then hands a quota over to be 'advanced' into the privileged society of the Enclave. She has always believed this is her duty, until the night her mother and father are arrested.
Sixteen-year-old midwife Gaia Stone is in the wasteland with nothing but her baby sister, a handful of supplies, and a rumor to guide her when she is captured by the people of Sylum, a dystopian society where she must follow a strict social code or never see her sister again.
Caragh M. O'Brien's Promised is the conclusion to the thrilling YA dystopian adventure Birthmarked Trilogy, where the world is divided between those who live inside the wall and those who live outside. After defying the ruthless Enclave, surviving the wasteland, and upending the rigid matriarchy of Sylum, Gaia Stone now faces her biggest challenge ever. She must lead the people of Sylum back to the Enclave and persuade the Protectorat to grant them refuge from the wasteland. In Gaia's absence, the Enclave has grown more cruel, more desperate to experiment on mothers from outside the wall, and now the stakes of cooperating or rebelling have never been higher. Is Gaia ready, as a leader, to sacrifice what—or whom—she loves most?