Death is not the only punishment you can give a person. He had used his currentgift to control their bodies, to force them to do it to themselves. Nor had he ordered someone else to do it. My father had never carved a piece of someone with his own hands. Green and brown and gray irises, afloat, like fish bobbing to the surface of a tank for food. Before I truly understood what the jars in the Weapons Hall contained, I had gone there to look at them, on shelves high above my head, glinting in the low light. And how to store it, too, in a preservative, so it wouldn’t rot. My brother-who had begun his life soft, and only later hardened into someone who would torture his own sister-had learned to cut out a person’s eye from Lazmet.
With her he had some softness, but with everyone else. He respected her, though he respected no one else, not even his own friends. “Laz,” she would say, “let it go.” And he obeyed her, as long as she didn’t command him too often. No one else would have dared but Ylira Noavek. My mother had called my father “Laz,” sometimes. And yet my brother, Ryzek, imprisoned in the belly of this transport ship, had said, Lazmet is still alive. We had held a funeral for him on the first sojourn after his passing, sent his old armor into space, because there was no body. "Roth offers a richly imagined, often brutal world of political intrigue and adventure, with a slow-burning romance at its core.LAZMET NOAVEK, MY FATHER and former tyrant of Shotet, had been presumed dead for over ten seasons. "Roth skillfully weaves the careful world-building and intricate web of characters that distinguished Divergent." -VOYA (starred review) #1 New York Times bestseller * Wall Street Journal bestseller * USA Today bestseller * #1 IndieBound bestseller In a stunning twist, the two will discover how fate defines their lives in ways most unexpected.
For Cyra, that could mean taking the life of the man who may-or may not-be her father. And when Cyra's father, Lazmet Noavek-a soulless tyrant, thought to be dead-reclaims the Shotet throne, Akos believes his end is closer than ever.Īs Lazmet ignites a barbaric war, Cyra and Akos are desperate to stop him at any cost. The fates, once determined, are inescapable.Īkos is in love with Cyra, in spite of his fate: He will die in service to Cyra's family. The lives of Cyra Noavek and Akos Kereseth are ruled by their fates, spoken by the oracles at their births. The Fates Divide is a richly imagined tale of hope and resilience told in four stunning perspectives. In the second book of the Carve the Mark duology, globally bestselling Divergent author Veronica Roth reveals how Cyra and Akos fulfill their fates.
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