Sohrab teaches Darius what friendship is really about: loyalty, honesty, and someone who has your back in a football (soccer) match. But all that changes when Darius meets Sohrab, a Bahá’í boy, in Yazd. When he arrives in Iran, learning to play the Persian card game Rook, socializing, and celebrating Nowruz with a family he had never properly met before is all overwhelming and leaves Darius wondering if he’ll ever truly belong anywhere. He’s mocked for his name and nerdy interests at Chapel Hill High School in Portland, Oregon, and doesn’t speak enough Farsi to communicate with his Iranian relatives either. Iranian on his mother’s side and white American on his father’s side, Darius never quite fits in. When Darius’ grandfather becomes terminally ill, Darius, along with his parents and younger sister, travels to Iran for the first time in his life. Though this series started strong, it ends with a whimper.ĭarius Kellner suffers from depression, bullying by high school jocks, and a father who seems to always be disappointed in him. A sense of impending doom often fails to deliver, and the obligatory romantic triangle falls as flat as the premise.

Somewhat convoluted and improbable events bring the series to a conclusion with a suitably optimistic tone.

Riley/Kyla/Rain/Lucy must develop strong friends and allies to survive, as well as to make sense of her slowly returning knowledge of the past. The AGT are now the bad guys along with the Lorders. Anyone unfamiliar with the first two books will be utterly at sea, and even those who have read them may want to dip into them as a refresher before tackling this conclusion. She is assigned to the Waterfall House for Girls, which is coincidentally run by her previous mother, Stella. Kyla returns to the place where she started out as Lucy, now using the name Riley. Kyla, known as Lucy in her previous, pre-Slating life and Rain in her brief career with the Antigovernment Terrorists, is on the run from the “Lorders” with help from the rebel group Missing In Action and a new look courtesy of Image Enhancement Technology. A girl with many names adds even more in this final book in the Slated trilogy, set in a dystopian future England controlled by the Law and Order Party.

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