Author: Ryan Graudin
Type: Paperback
Read: 22nd May - 30th May 2016
Rating: 5/5
Published: 5th November 2015 by Orion Childrens Books
Once upon a different time, there was a girl who lived in a kingdom of death. Wolves howled up her arm. A whole pack of them-made of tattoo ink and pain, memory and loss. It was the only thing about her that ever stayed the same.Her story begins on a train.
Germania, 1956. Over ten years since the Nazis won the war. 18-year-old Yael is part of the resistance, and she has just one mission: to kill Hitler. But first she's got to get close enough to him to do it.
Experimented on during her time at Auschwitz, Yael has the unique ability to change her appearance at will. The only part of her which always remains are the five tattooed wolves on her arm; one for each of the people she's lost. Using her abilities, she must transform into Adele Wolfe, Germany's most famous female rider and winner of the legendary Axis Tour; an epic long distance motorcycle race from Berlin to Tokyo, where only the strongest (and wiliest) riders survive. If she can win this, she will be able to get close enough to kill the Fuhrer and change history forever.
But with other riders sabotaging her chances at every turn, Yael's mission won't be easy. . .
I probably would never have picked up this book had it not been in the very first illumicrate box. But its taken me ages to read even though its such a cracking book. Set in the time where Hitler was in charge, we meet Yael a young girl who can change skin, she can take on the form of anyone so long as she can see a picture of them first. So with this sercret Yael is given the mission to kill Hitler, live on TV. But first she must get close enough to him and to do that she must shapeshift into the great Adele Wolfe ther winner of a past Axis race. Yael must compete in this one as Adele and win.
I'm never good with books based on true stories and history in general. Although the Hitler part is true, i'm taking a mad guess that the shapeshifting thing his army never conqured. But this book is addictive. It did confuse me slightly at first, and we do change from the past when Yael was a child in Auschwitz being experimented on, to the present and what she is trying to achieve and the obsticals in her way. You want to know if Yael suceeds and how she changes is just amazing.
The axis race is just mental, i enjoyed all the boyish-ness of it all. It's a tough race and how characters survive and what they do just to survive makes for good reading. There is a huge twist at the end of the story and i was shocked!! But i really can't wait to see what happens in the next book when it finally comes out this year.
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