"Earth, not so very long from now: the silent, inscrutable alien visitors who bathed the planet in transforming rains have moved on, leaving behind a world much changed.

Penn Roma, age sixteen, is blessed—or cursed—with supernatural talents she has always concealed. Her sisters, likewise afflicted, are prisoners of the Commission, the government agency tasked with controlling these strange children. Penn’s determination to save them only gains urgency when she learns of the horrifying plans the twisted Warden Dodge has for the peculiar charges.

But Penn herself must remain hidden, navigating a series of fantastical havens with her embattled allies, similarly enhanced teens also in the Commission’s crosshairs. Worse, her vast, half-understood powers have become unpredictable, failing at critical moments and activating outside of her control.

Can Penn trust a rogue warden, supposedly opposed to Dodge’s schemes, to help free her family…or has the Commission set its most nefarious trap yet?" (description from Amazon)

This is the second book in The Celestine Series, which isn't made clear by anything on the book. This is one of the downfalls--I thought I was getting the first book of the series, but I did not. Apparently the first book builds most of the story that the reader should know, as the author just expects us to know it already. In the first few Harry Potter books, at least, Rowling gives us a brief summary of Harry's life in Hogwarts (and the US book covers label the number in series so you aren't in doubt).

This is a steampunk novel for the YA set. Penn and her friends have interesting powers, and once you kind of figure out the undefined terms, the book becomes more interesting. I hope whomever finds this goes out to find the first book, as I will be doing.

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