Natsionalist — Michael I. Sichok

Five-hundred years later, another war is fought by a colony for its independence, on the same ground as the first. This time, with assault weapons… and music. Stary Trilogy, the groundbreaking, passionate YA series which opened last summer with the heartbreaking, mesmerizing tale of hope: Nadeyat'sya, found its inevitability this spring in the dark, sexy, tear-filled Neizbezhnyy, and is now set to burn with the astonishing, explosive conclusion, Natsionalist.Nadya Illyushin spends her teenage days at Institution, like most young residents of Stary Sovok. Stary is a bleak colony of Russkaya Amerika, established several hundred years ago, after the Great Intercontinental War of 1983. Nadya's nights are spent caring for her widowed, State-employed father and enjoying the company of her sparkling younger sister, Saski. She has never known anything outside of the lackluster world of State-regulated life: an existence of overly restrictive regulation, meager survival, and dependency upon bureaucracy. That is, not until she stumbles upon a mysterious place in the forest - that changes everything, about her past, present and future. Nadya uncovers a secret place of escape - an alternate, parallel reality, where truths are revealed and destinies changed in unpredictable ways. She soon learns that the price of change does not come easily, but once the constraints of rote Stary life have been stripped away, Nadya takes the first steps into realizing her own pivotal role in shaping the future, all while navigating the all-too-human process of self-discovery into adulthood.