The Revisionary is abou t a
n in et een -year -old gir l n am ed Por t ia
Aber n at h y. It sh ow s Por t ia?s lif e as a
poor gir l w h o lived w it h h er f at h er u n t il
sh e w as dr af t ed in t o t h e Cr yst al Globe
as a Revision ar y st u den t , som eon e w it h
t h e abilit y t o am en d h er cou n t r y ?s codex
law s. Sh e h ad w or k ed h ar d in sch ool,
w it h h er goal bein g t o get dr af t ed n o
m at t er h ow m u ch h er f at h er did n ot
w an t h er t o be dr af t ed. Her m ain
m ission w as t o ear n a Dom e seat in t h e
capit al an d r elease h er br ot h er f r om t h e
sat ellit e pr ison cam p w h er e h e w as
bein g h eld. As sh e goes t h r ou gh h er
sch oolin g in Cr yst al, sh e f in ds h er self
w on der in g if sh e can t r u st people an d
m ak e f r ien ds. Fr ien ds h ave bet r ayed h er br ot h er bef or e, so n ow sh e st r u ggles
w it h t r u st . Sh e also w on der s if sh e can
ever t r u st h er classm at e Lu t h er
Dan f or t h again , t h e br ot h er of Jot h am
Dan f or t h , h er br ot h er ?s bet r ayer . Sh e
also m eet s a Gage, an en f or cem en t
of f icer , n am ed Gage Gat h . At cer t ain
t im es, sh e f eels as t h ou gh sh e can t r u st
Gat h , bu t at ot h er s, h e seem s as cr u el as
t h e ot h er Gages. Is h e secr et ly f igh t in g
again st t h e abu ses of t h e Dom e by
h elpin g h er br ot h er ?s Rogu e gr ou p of
r ebels called t h e Br ot h er h ood? Th r ou gh
all t h e t w ist an d t u r n s, Por t ia an d Gat h
en d u p bein g sen t t o a sat ellit e, w h ich is
w h er e w e m eet h er again in The
Revolutionary.
In The Revolutionary, we meet Portia
Abernathy again at the Warren satellite.
The book shows how Portia struggles with
being a mine runner. She finds herself
wondering how long she will live through
her 20-year sentence and if the
Brotherhood will ever find her. She finds
herself stumbling into an underground
smuggler ?s headquarters. The smuggler
forces her to either earn her keep or go
back to die in Warren. She struggles with
whether she should go back and suffer
with Gath under a slave master or serve
under what seems like another slave
master and hopefully save Gath from
starvation in the process. Her new master
plants her as a spy in Crystal. As she goes
through life in Crystal, she wonders if she
will ever be able to see Luther Danforth
again and if she will ever find out how he
feels about her. She also wonders what has
happened to her friends Lydia and Jael.
Portia also struggles with the fact that all
revolutions come with a cost, and that cost is blood. Does she really want the lives of
others to be lost to gain the freedom that
all the people really want? Will the
Brotherhood ever find her? Will Gath
survive, or will he die from starvation?
Three months a satellite prisoner, Portia
wonders if the B rotherhood has left her to
die? until she plunges into the domain of a
smuggler contacted by her brother. But her
rescue comes with a price tag, and now,
she must forfeit her identity to act as a spy.
She learns that her enemies want the
Dome to approve mass satellite executions,
though no one knows why. Worse, they?re
using her friend Luther, now a Court
Citizen intern, to sign the short-term
orders. She wants to confide in Luther, but
can she still trust him with the company he
keeps?
Plagued by shadows and guilt for leaving
her protector Gath behind on the satellite,
Portia must find a way, not only to rescue
him and the other prisoners, but also to
destroy the slave camps once and for all.
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