No One Dies in the Garden of Syn by Michael Seidelman

This is exactly the kind of disability rep I would love to see more of. Syn still had these wild adventures and went to other worlds and fought baddies, she just also took pills and did treatments and had the occasional hospital stay and had additional struggles that healthy people wouldn’t. I also yet again loved the chronic illness representation! The main character has cystic fibrosis, and she had realistic and serious symptoms that persisted throughout the whole book, but the book wasn’t about her illness. There was also a twist in this one that I did not see coming.

Although the whole book had fairly good, balanced pacing, I got more into it as it went on and the pace got faster. Alternate/parallel universes can be cool to read about, and we even got some backstory and explanation about the Garden and different things in it. I thought the story itself was good and really creative. There were still aspects that I enjoyed though! Sometimes when you read a series, your tastes change between books, and I wonder if maybe that’s what happened here since I didn’t feel as gripped by this one. “Because you can’t make me witness something if I’m dead.” With that, I whirl around and hop onto the railing, teetering forward, gasping with panicked second thoughts.ĭefiantly, I heave myself off the railing.*I received an ecopy of this book from the author. But you’re not going to kill Beth for revenge.” “A loved one someone takes from you,” He says, with malice. “Another thing we agree on is that some things are worse than death. “That’s one thing we agree on.” I shrug into my backpack and face him. The Creepers flap their massive wings, circling nearer, my hair whipping across my face from the draft. The view of one world from the sky of another. I take in the bird’s-eye view of the Garden. As much as I want to enjoy every moment of every day until my time naturally runs out, her life is worth more than mine. She could live to eighty or even a hundred. But unlike Beth, an early death was written in my cards long ago.

Is death the only way out of this? The only way to save Beth? I don’t want to die. The Creeper birds circling above the platform are an extra layer of security. There is no way to get past my attacker and the two crocodile Creepers.

No One Dies in the Garden of Syn by Michael Seidelman