Defy: Book Launch (Port Colborne, ON)

There's a new YA novel coming from writer Sara de Waard, 

the author of White Lies

White Lies

Written by Sara de Waard

DCB
978-1-77086-649-2
224 pp.
Ages 13+

2022 

Reviewed here

 

 

She's launching

 

Defy

Written by Sara de Waard

DCB Young Readers

978-1-77086-7581

208 pp.

Ages 12-18 

October 2024 

 

on

 

Saturday, October 19, 2024

 

at

 

1-3 PM (EST)

 

at

 

Port Colborne Public Library

310 King Street

Port Colborne, ON

905-834-6512

 

This free event will include an author reading, refreshments and a book signing.

Limited copies of White Lies and Defy will be available for purchase.

A little bit about the book from publisher DCB Young Readers:

Enjoy your Final Days.

Escape a Natural Death with us.

Come to Zalmon’s Quiet End.

In the city of Zalmon, every Life Event is predetermined: where you’ll work, who you’ll marry, when you’ll die.

On a tour of Central Processing, seventeen-year-old Darius inadvertently unveils shocking information about his beloved little sister, Mahlah. His impulsive reaction may make him a target of the sinister people who run Zalmon, and could doom Mahlah to a worse fate than the one Darius uncovered.

Defying an unjust system, an unwanted Life Match, and an uncontrollable enemy, Darius fights to save Mahlah, leading him to expose a conspiracy at the heart of the city — and a potential life of autonomy, dignity, and love beyond what the Book of Zalmon dictates.

 

If White Lies, Sara de Waard's debut novel is any indication, lovers of dystopian YA are sure to find a great read in Defy.