
State of Flux
by Rachael Stephen
416 pages· 2014· ISBN 9781495997648
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Thirty years ago, trailblazing graffiti-legend Flux vanished.
Trinai isn’t Flux. She’s not a legend. But she’s doing her best impression. On the thirtieth anniversary of Flux’s disappearance, a citywide blackout interrupts her memorial painting and an anonymous squad takes her captive.
She doesn’t know it, but elsewhere in the darkness a washed-up railgrinder determines to learn Trinai’s secret; a journalist trapped in a lift faces her own icy demons; the leadership of the Fighter’s Pride hangs on a single match, and an old member of Flux’s Pride tries to dull the screaming of a ghost.
Caught in a new war on graffiti, Trinai must connect these threads to unravel Flux’s unwritten past and finish what her hero began.
State of Flux is a high-energy, dystopian adventure recommended for readers 15 and up.
“Among the best indie novels I’ve read…Themes of loss - risking it, recovering from it - abound, and feel achingly real… [State of Flux] has a kind of quiet power” - Raya Wolfsun, Amazon US
“Feels like it changes the world one word at a time… I wanted to run out and buy some spray paint” Amanda Mitchell, Amazon UK
“[Offers] a fascinating look at graffiti… loved every page” - Sam Ferguson, Amazon UK
“This dystopian and yet beautiful novel stays with you for days after you've read the final page…a delicious suspense and anxiety moved me through the pages like a word junkie” - Wendy, Goodreads
“I read this book in the booths of coffee shops, in my tent, in my car, on the edge of a precipice, everywhere…challenges us to pick up all the pieces and discover the secret behind the mysterious Flux” - Gianluca Forcolin, Goodreads
Trinai isn’t Flux. She’s not a legend. But she’s doing her best impression. On the thirtieth anniversary of Flux’s disappearance, a citywide blackout interrupts her memorial painting and an anonymous squad takes her captive.
She doesn’t know it, but elsewhere in the darkness a washed-up railgrinder determines to learn Trinai’s secret; a journalist trapped in a lift faces her own icy demons; the leadership of the Fighter’s Pride hangs on a single match, and an old member of Flux’s Pride tries to dull the screaming of a ghost.
Caught in a new war on graffiti, Trinai must connect these threads to unravel Flux’s unwritten past and finish what her hero began.
State of Flux is a high-energy, dystopian adventure recommended for readers 15 and up.
“Among the best indie novels I’ve read…Themes of loss - risking it, recovering from it - abound, and feel achingly real… [State of Flux] has a kind of quiet power” - Raya Wolfsun, Amazon US
“Feels like it changes the world one word at a time… I wanted to run out and buy some spray paint” Amanda Mitchell, Amazon UK
“[Offers] a fascinating look at graffiti… loved every page” - Sam Ferguson, Amazon UK
“This dystopian and yet beautiful novel stays with you for days after you've read the final page…a delicious suspense and anxiety moved me through the pages like a word junkie” - Wendy, Goodreads
“I read this book in the booths of coffee shops, in my tent, in my car, on the edge of a precipice, everywhere…challenges us to pick up all the pieces and discover the secret behind the mysterious Flux” - Gianluca Forcolin, Goodreads
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