
Well-developed characters in a truly exceptional setting – engaging, exciting, a real Poznanski!.Volume 3 of the outstanding dystopian thriller trilogy.


The author leads her readers and Ria skilfully through a bewildering series of events before introducing a sudden twist in the plot that no one could have anticipated. Something far worse than any other conspiracy she has previously uncovered.With CONTRIVED, bestselling author Ursula Poznanski has produced another, brilliantly thrilling novel in her Ria sequence. Something so ghastly it’s almost impossible to imagine. But then she discovers something she hadn’t reckoned with. Though Quirin won’t be dissuaded from this terrible plan and suddenly vanishes, as if the ground had swallowed him up.Although circumstances are stacked against her, Ria sets out to find the remedy and save the lives of the Clan people and the inhabitants of the Spheres. She knows that it will kill the inhabitants of the spheres, and take revenge on them for having stolen so many Clan children. Ria has now discovered the terrible secret about the virus that kills so swiftly. July 2014 Die Vernichteten Eleria - Band 3 This complex dystopian novel is narrated in such an enjoyable way that readers will hardly notice their brains going into overdrive as they devour it." In the process, she raises central existential and ontological questions that result from the interplay between the real and the virtual worlds. In ✼ryptos«, Ursula Poznanski pulls out all the stops of storytelling: She embeds numerous references to human and intellectual history in an action-packed and extremely suspenseful thriller plot. Then they are reunited with their body, which is lying inside a capsule. People can switch between these worlds at will and, when they die there, they are not truly dead instead, they merely return to the »real world« – same as at night when they sleep. That’s why world designers construct »alternative realities«, such as landscapes populated by dinosaurs, life at court in the Middle Ages, and surfing and chilling out on a beach. "In the not too distant future, the world is an inhospitable place: droughts, storms, floods.

Where do we go when Nowhere is the only destination left?
