A review by celiaedf12
The Fade by Chris Wooding

4.0

This was a fantastic sci-fi story, on a world where civilisation exists underground, away from the scorching and fatal sun. Orna is an assassin, a spy, and essentially a slave, indentured to the house that employs her. However, when she is captured by the enemy, and her husband is killed, she realises that her loyalties have been misplaced and desperately tries to make her way home, back to her son.

Wooding writes beautifully, and the world he's created is intensely compelling. This is one of the most absorbing novels I've read in a long time.