Imagine a world of carnivals. A world where you can have all of the luxuries you have ever dreamed of. Hot house flowers. Champagne. All of the sweets you can eat. An endless world of pleasure. What price would you pay for such a life? Would you be willing to live only your youth in such a world knowing that the moment you begin to age, at the first sign of graying hair or wrinkling skin, you would go and live underground with the other old people, wrapped in bandages until your death so that you don't have to see the aging?
This is life in Elysia. This is where Rafe lives with his older sister, Calliope, and the boys from their band, Paul and Dionisio. Here he watches Lily, a tight rope walker in the circus, from afar until he works up the nerve to talk to her. It is love for him in an instant and when Lily goes Under to get a drug that will bring back her parents for a few hours, Rafe will follow her and face the dangers of under.
The city is full of beauty but it is not as it seems and below there are just as many dark things. This is the story of how one boy returns to Under again and again until he can make his escape from Elysia.
This is very different from the other Francesca Lia Block books that I have read thus far but I like it. It took a while to get into just because it is so different but it has that characteristic beauty that is present in all of her writings.
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