Intrinsic

<p><span style=color: rgba(15 17 17 1); background-color: rgba(255 255 255 1)>For fans of </span><strong style=color: rgba(15 17 17 1); background-color: rgba(255 255 255 1)><em>Never Let Me Go</em></strong><span style=color: rgba(15 17 17 1); background-color: rgba(255 255 255 1)> </span><strong style=color: rgba(15 17 17 1); background-color: rgba(255 255 255 1)><em>Memoirs of a Geisha</em></strong><span style=color: rgba(15 17 17 1); background-color: rgba(255 255 255 1)> and </span><strong style=color: rgba(15 17 17 1); background-color: rgba(255 255 255 1)><em>The Hunger Games</em></strong><span style=color: rgba(15 17 17 1); background-color: rgba(255 255 255 1)> franchise.</span></p><p></p><p><span style=color: rgba(15 17 17 1); background-color: rgba(255 255 255 1)>Recommended for readers 15-18+.</span></p><p></p><p><span style=color: rgba(15 17 17 1); background-color: rgba(255 255 255 1)>A decade after the fall of the despotic President Ynna Reinoso Manalo the Republic of Groves hopes for a brighter future. However seventeen-year-old Anne Reynes who recently returned from a reclusive treatment center is less certain about hers.</span></p><p><span style=color: rgba(15 17 17 1); background-color: rgba(255 255 255 1)>As Anne manages relationships with her influential family makes friends and searches for purpose she battles recurring nightmares and a growing sense that she's being followed. Her world unravels further as forgotten childhood memories resurface challenging everything she thought she knew.</span></p><p><em style=color: rgba(15 17 17 1); background-color: rgba(255 255 255 1)>Intrinsic</em><span style=color: rgba(15 17 17 1); background-color: rgba(255 255 255 1)> (Book 1 of The Intrinsic Trilogy) is a provocative coming-of-age political saga that explores the fine line between dynasty and destiny.</span></p><p></p><p><strong style=color: rgba(15 17 17 1); background-color: rgba(255 255 255 1)>In <em>Intrinsic</em> France Pinzon reimagines the young-adult dystopian tradition for a new generation-one fluent in technology yet hungry for meaning. Set in the island-nation of Groves where fragments of lost memories state secrets and ghostly data caches converge the novel follows Anne Reynes a teenage survivor haunted by her mother's death and pursued by the digital shadows of a collapsing regime. As Anne's lucid dreams begin to blur with reality she's drawn into a world of political deception family intrigue and awakening conscience-a story about remembering who you are when the world wants you to forget.</strong></p><p><strong style=color: rgba(15 17 17 1); background-color: rgba(255 255 255 1)>France writes with empathy and intelligence never sacrificing her humanistic core for spectacle. Beneath the conspiracies and technological intrigue lies a meditation on identity grief and the moral courage to see clearly in an age of distortion. She's the rare kind of YA author who treats her readers as thinkers first-curious sensitive and alert to the world's complexities.</strong></p><p><strong style=color: rgba(15 17 17 1); background-color: rgba(255 255 255 1)><em>Intrinsic</em> is the kind of story I would want my own daughter to read: imaginative yet grounded emotionally honest and unafraid to ask difficult questions. France Pinzon has written a book that proves the young-adult novel can still be both thrilling and deeply humane.</strong></p><p><strong style=color: rgba(15 17 17 1); background-color: rgba(255 255 255 1)>-Brock Eldon author of forthcoming <em>Dominion Ashes: A Book of Decline</em> <em>The Darkroom Exhibits</em> <em>The Longing for Form</em> and <em>The Commonplace Book Vol. I</em></strong></p>