Legacy (Young Adult Fantasy)

Claire Chilton

Sep 2011 · The Outliers Book 2 · Ragz Books

About this ebook

A rebellious teenage outcast is their only hope...

She's wild and outspoken. Trouble follows Carla Mainston wherever she goes. But what do you expect from a purple outcast living in a green colony?

When a deadly disease spreads through the colony, and Carla's brother Joe becomes infected, she knows she has to find a cure before it's too late. But when her genetics kick in, and she begins inheriting mysterious superpowers, her life becomes a whole new level of crazy.

If she can just get a handle on her new powers, which so far only seem to make her gooey over boys, maybe she can become a superhero and save everyone, assuming she doesn’t get arrested or have the life sucked out of her before then…

**The Outliers are a bestselling series of comedy science fiction, young adult books.The dystopian novels in this teen urban fantasy series follow Carla as she explores each colony on a quest to find out more about herself and uncovers the secrets of her world in the process.

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"Wildly, bizarrely, brain-punchingly inventive!" - Bestselling author, Derek Landy.

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Ratings and reviews

Carla is a purple girl who lives in a green world called Derombi. In Derombi, everything is green; skin color, eye color, furniture and furnishings - everything. So, it goes without saying that Carla does not fit into her world at all. She feels as if her life is yet to begin and that she has a greater purpose, but she is stuck in a world where her mother cleans and polishes the oven everyday and her brother is perfect in every way. Then a mysterious illness affects all the young people in Derombi, and Parklon suspects the unaffected Carla. When Carla and Parklon meet, he leads her to the archives where she learns that there is a possibility she is not who she always thought she was, and so the adventure begins which leads Carla to the discovery of who she really is. I took pleasure in getting lost in this vibrant, multi-coloured world. I enjoyed the understated references towards racial divide between the different purple, green, blue and orange people. The references to common household cleaning agents incorporated into the story as landmarks and influential people made me smile. I was also amused at how well it was described that when a girl falls in love with a boy, how she cou

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About the author

After completing her honours degree in English Literature, Claire Chilton was interviewed to work for MI5. Fortunately, for the sake of the United Kingdom, she did not get the job. Now a web designer and graphic designer with a passion for great stories, she writes about the adventures she'd like to have.

A prolific writer with wide-ranging interests, Claire specialises in romantic and speculative fiction, which includes genres such as mystery, science fiction, fantasy, horror, comedy and romance. Her mystery romance novel, Hustle, won Harlequin's So You Think You Can Write contest in 2013, and her previous books in The Demon Diaries won the Most Read award on Wattpad.

After exploring the world in her misspent youth, travelling across Europe, Africa, and the Caribbean, she now lives in an ancient Roman city in Yorkshire with her Californian fiancé and a fluffy kitten called Shadow, who is convinced she is a bigger cat than she is.

You can find Claire online at claire-chilton.com.