Starting a year after the end of the first in this series, Truancy, Isamu Fukui’s Truancy Citybrings the action on a larger scale.  The dystopian city run by the Educators and the Enforcers has been falling one district at a time to the rebel group of teens, the Truancy, and the reader gets to see the action from multiple perspectives.  The Mayor realizes defeat as outside government powers begin to make their move onto the city.  Umasi learns from the Mayor the secrets behind the founding of the city and the danger posed by the entrance of his half-sister, a general in the government military.  Takan has proven himself to be a great leader and warrior for the Truancy as victory seems closer and closer.  But most interesting is the entrance of Cross, a protégé of Edward, who leads the city’s Student Militia but realizes that the Truancy may not be his enemy after all.  With the pace of a video game, Truancy City is a quick-moving, action-packed story of a dystopian city under siege where no one’s motives can go unquestioned.  The author first started writing this series when he was in high school, and this entry showcases his best writing yet with the introduction of complex, new characters that grab your attention over the returning characters.  With a sharp focus on war and its effects, Fukui crafts an engaging story of a city under siege.  (Book Talk Author: Joel Mollman, Colorado Blue Spruce Award, 2015)