Boneshaker by Cherie Priest

Cherie Priest’s amazing steampunk adventure starts 16 years after Leviticus Blue’s steam-powered mining machine the "Boneshaker" destroyed most of Seattle and released a deadly gas that can transform people into flesh eating monsters known as rotters. Survivors have walled up the remains of the city and settle in the Outskirts. Briar Wilkes’ life changed in the devastation and since then she’s worked as anonymously as possible to support herself and her son, Zeke. But at 16, he’ll go under the wall into the toxic city to find answers and vindication for two men he never knew, his grandfather, a folk hero among the lower class, and his father Levi Blue. Action, suspense, air pirates and zombies make this a fascinating read about a boy who wants the truth and a mother who will face anything to bring him home safely.

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