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Book Review of The City of Ember (Ember, Bk 1)

The City of Ember (Ember, Bk 1)
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Lina Mayfleet esperately wants to be a messenger. Instead she draws the dreaded job of pipeworks laborer, which means she'll be working in damp tunnels deep underground. Doon Harrow draws the messenger-and asks Lina to trade! Doon wants to be underground. That's where the generator is, and Doon has ideas about how to fix it. For as long as anyone can remember, the grat lights of Ember have kept endless darkness at bay. But now thelights are beginning to flicker.....