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Vivacity: A Star's Purpose

by Fiona Riebesehl

A city losing its color—and its bearings

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AlbakiReads Editorial

A city losing its color—and its bearings

Millind is a place where residents are encouraged to imagine a brighter future, but that ideal is shaken when Okimi becomes colorblind after a tragedy. Her work as a babysitter had given her a sense of purpose; now she joins forces with a nameless stranger to investigate why others are also losing their ability to see color. Their inquiry brings them into contact with otherworldly possessions and threats to the world they know. Color here is more than a visual detail: its disappearance raises questions about identity, purpose, and what sustains life in the city.

Good fit for readers who enjoy

  • Teens and young adults interested in speculative fiction
  • Readers drawn to stories about art, color, and identity
  • Readers who enjoy mysteries involving unusual phenomena and a changing city

Themes

Color and perceptionPurpose and identityArt and imaginationCommunity in crisisThe nature of existence

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Book overview

Okimi is a young woman trying to find her path in the city that she grew up in. As a citizen of Millind, a city known for encouraging its residents to dream and paint tomorrow with more color than the day previous, she assumes that the only one in her way is herself. Finding purpose in her gig as a babysitter, everything she has ever loved and relied on is gone in the blink of an eye following a tragedy that leaves her colorblind in a world where the very nature of color brings life to everything living. In the wake of disaster, she allies with a mysterious man that doesn't fit in the same canvas as everyone else, and has not a clue who he is or what his name is.

 

The two form a bond as they move to investigate their city's changing landscape with more individuals losing the ability to see in hue. As they investigate, they encounter otherworldly possessions and individuals that jeopardize everything they've ever known. As their world begins to dry of anything warm or living, the enigma they encounter forces them to question the very nature of their world and their existence.

 

For who is anyone without color?

 

 

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