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Summary
Summary
Eliot and Fiona Post are twins caught up in an epic custody battle between their mother's and father's families. Their mother is the immortal goddess Atropos, the eldest Fate, and their father is Lucifer, Lord of the infernals, a diabolical fallen angel. The families have put them through rigorous, life-threatening challenges, and together they've risen to combat them in amazing ways. But now they are facing the greatest trial of all--high school.
Paxington Unviersity is no normal high school--it's a place where gods and goddesses, warriors and socerers learn to harness their power, where a debate in class can end in a duel, and your classmates aren't simply friends or enemies, but allies in battle or threats to your life. To flunk is to die--only the toughest graduate. As Fiona and Eliot struggle to keep up their grades by surviving the rigorous training, both families are watching.
High school is bad enough, but imagine being caught in the midst of an immortal/infernal war...
Author Notes
Eric Nylund is the author of the epic fantasy series that began with Mortal Coils and continues in All That Lives Must Die . He is also the author of several books in the bestselling Halo series--Halo : The Fall of Reach, Halo: First Strike , and Halo: Ghosts of Onyxand --and The Resistors series for middle grade readers. Nylund earned degrees in chemistry at U.C. Santa Barbara and U.C. San Diego before leaving his Ph.D. program to become a writer. Besides writing his novels, he is the Director of Narrative Design at Microsoft Game Studios. He lives near Seattle on a rain-drenched mountain with his wife, Syne Mitchell, and their son.
Reviews 3
Publisher's Weekly Review
Following the events of 2009's Mortal Coils, 15-year-old twins Fiona and Eliot Post-children of Lucifer and the goddess Atropos-come into their powers at the onset of a vast battle between supernatural entities. Forced to enroll in an ultra-competitive magical school called Paxington, where even gym class can prove lethal, the twins encounter such mysterious, dangerous, and intriguing characters as headmistress Miss Weston and gym teacher Mister Ma, while learning more about familiar characters like slick Uncle Henry and Lucifer himself. Nylund masterfully blends the mundane details of studying with an epic war in Hell, and with similar skill portrays Fiona and Eliot's sibling bond even as their political and romantic interests diverge. Nylund has hit his stride, piling on the plot developments, but never losing sight of the standout characterizations that made the first book memorable. (July) (c) Copyright PWxyz, LLC. All rights reserved
Booklist Review
The Immortals and the Infernals are still at it in the sequel to Mortal Coils (2009), and twins Eliot and Fiona, children of Lucifer and a goddess, are still caught in the middle as both sides vie to claim the half-Immortal, half-Infernal teens as their own. Having passed the life-or-death tests set up by the league of gods, the twins face even more challenges when they are admitted as freshmen to Paxington Institute, a high school for children of the gods, which has an extremely rigorous and competitive curriculum it is possible they might not survive the first semester. Their skills of diplomacy and strategic thinking are tested, and they are trained how to use and strengthen their powers. However, Eliot and Fiona not only face the deadly perils inherent in their classes but also the machinations of the Infernals, who plan to draw the twins into a war between clans. The Immortals are also manipulating the twins, and the tale abounds with lies, plans, schemes, and double-crosses as well as death and destruction. The twins become even more multifaceted than in the first book, and the swirling intrigue is compelling. To be continued in the planned What Fools These Mortals, which is sure to be anticipated.--Estes, Sally Copyright 2010 Booklist
Library Journal Review
Teenage twins Eliot and Fiona Post have discovered that they are gods, the immortal children of a mating between Lucifer, Lord of the Infernals, and the Lady Atropos, eldest of the Three Fates. Now enrolled in an elite high school that teaches children of the gods how to control their various powers, they discover that classes and social time can transform from debate and lecture to duels and that failure means more than just a bad grade. In the meantime, both gods and demons watch their progress with great interest. Nylund's sequel to Mortal Coils magnifies the trials and tribulations of the teen years to epic proportions, mixing humor and drama in generous amounts. VERDICT Irreverent and entertaining, this tale of modern teenagers caught in a supernatural web of family relations should please most adult and YA fans of urban and coming-of-age fantasies. (c) Copyright 2010. Library Journals LLC, a wholly owned subsidiary of Media Source, Inc. No redistribution permitted.
