Everything is in ruins.
A devastating plague has decimated the population, and those who are left live in fear of catching it as the city crumbles around them.
So what does Araby Worth have to live for?
Nights in the Debauchery Club, beautiful dresses, glittery makeup . . . and tantalizing ways to forget it all.
But in the depths of the club—in the depths of her own despair—Araby will find more than oblivion. She will find Will, the terribly handsome proprietor of the club, and Elliott, the wickedly smart aristocrat. Neither is what he seems. Both have secrets. Everyone does.
And Araby may find not just something to live for, but something to fight for—no matter what it costs her.
Review:
Masque of the Red Death has an interesting and new way to order the dystopian classes. The two men -Will and Elliot- are both dream worthy.
I love how the different classes were sorted by either you had a mask or you couldn't afford one. The masks were also fresh way of a type of short-term relief. This book starts off with a great plot line and a mysterious girl -Araby. Just in her name, you can already tell she won't be any ordinary girl; throughout the book, you start learning more and more about the hidden and haunting Araby.
The one thing that really pushes the reader to keep on reading is the chemistry between Araby and Will and/or Elliot. The only problem is that aside from that, there is nothing very intriguing about the book and slowly, I started loosing interest. By the end of the book, I was reading the book but I wasn't exactly aware. It's like walking through a thick layer of fog: a) you can't see where you're going and b) the air is weighing you down. The ending ends abruptly, so the reader is surprised once they reach the last page. However, there's not much of a cliff hanger and the love triangle (if you could really call it that) is broken/ajar.
This plot to the book has a lot of potential, but after this first book, I'm hesitant to start the second book...
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