Book Tunes (34)

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Under the Never Sky by Veronica Rossi

Aria is a teenager in the enclosed city of Reverie. Like all Dwellers, she spends her time with friends in virtual environments, called Realms, accessed through an eyepiece called a Smarteye. Aria enjoys the Realms and the easy life in Reverie. When she is forced out of the pod for a crime she did not commit, she believes her death is imminent. The outside world is known as The Death Shop, with danger in every direction. 

As an Outsider, Perry has always known hunger, vicious predators, and violent energy storms from the swirling electrified atmosphere called the Aether. A bit of an outcast even among his hunting tribe, Perry withstands these daily tests with his exceptional abilities, as he is gifted with powerful senses that enable him to scent danger, food and even human emotions. 

They come together reluctantly, for Aria must depend on Perry, whom she considers a barbarian, to help her get back to Reverie, while Perry needs Aria to help unravel the mystery of his beloved nephew’s abduction by the Dwellers. Together they embark on a journey challenged as much by their prejudices as by encounters with cannibals and wolves. But to their surprise, Aria and Perry forge an unlikely love - one that will forever change the fate of all who live 
UNDER THE NEVER SKY.

The Tune: Kings and Queens by 30 Seconds to Mars

The Lyrics:
oh--->

Into the night
Desperate and broken
The sound of a fight
Father has spoken

oh->

We were the kings and queens of promise
We were the phantoms of ourselves
Maybe the children of a lesser God
Between Heaven and Hell
Heaven and Hell

Into your eyes
Hopeless and taken
We stole our new lives
Through blindness
In defense of our dreams
In defense of our dreams

We were the Kings and Queens of promise
We were the victims of ourselves
Maybe the Children of a lesser God
Between Heaven and Hell
Heaven and Hell

The age of man is over
A darkness comes at dawn
These lessons that we've learned here
Have only just begun

We were the Kings and Queens of promise
We were the phantoms of ourselves
Maybe the Children of a Lesser God
Between Heaven and Hell

We are the Kings
We are the Queens
We are the Kings
We are the Queens

I think this song fits this book perfectly. Like to the tee. Earth as we know it has been over for a long time and both Aria and Perry's races have been trying survive the only ways they know how. But as they come together and begin to discover the truth, they gain inside into the darkness.

Plus I feel like the lyric "between heaven and hell" fits well with their situation. As the continue to move across their hellish landscape, they slowly find solace in each other. It's a strange sort of heaven that never of them are prepared for.

Armed with their knowledge of both worlds, I truly believes these two are the "kings and queens" of their generation and together, they might be able to make something more.