![]() ![]() But the rebels are outnumbered, and in the end it's up to Letta to use her words to tip the balance in favor of freedom. ![]() She has her good friend Marlo on her society, and together they make a dangerous journey outside of their familiar world, finding dangers and allies. When Letta learns that the leader of Ark wants to limit language even further, and when the soldiers of the city move against the rebels, capturing her friends, she is compelled to act to free her friends in particular, and her people more generally from a wordless subjugation to tyranny. In the first book, she escapes Ark now she lives with people who call themselves the rebel Creators, trying to keep culture alive. Letta loves words, and takes her job as keeper of them seriously. The Last Lie, by Patricia Forde (August 1, 2020, Sourcebooks Young Readers), is the sequel to The List,* the story of the girl who's the keeper of words in a dystopian future society where language for the majority of the people living in the city of Ark is limited to 600 words. ![]()
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