Lenka S. reviewed on 3/20/2025 + 842 more book reviews

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This book Started with interesting premise, another dystopian world, whew America is dominating England though economic enslavement. A total Economic Collapse in Britain causing debt to USA and crisis so large as to destroy the very structure od the country is build on. Little by little USA is providing food and basic necessities but dictates how they will be used. And GB becomes another third world country with camps providing survival necessities to people in exchange for obedience. Disobedience is not tolerated. Into this we have our Narator telling her story of her brave departure on there dream of a society that might not exist, but that turns out to be equally manipulative, abusive and despotic in its own way. And our "Sister" as the narrator is now when she joins the independent group in the north is quite bling to it. (Not totally blind, but quite blind). It took a bit long to get to the meat of the story, to the actual plot. And just as things started to get good, when we were hitting what should have been the climax of the book, the author employs "data lost", and sums up the results of the climax in 1 paragraph. Terrible choice. At first I thought there would be a sequel, but no. That's it. The journey is the story, not the rebellion. which is unusual. As the rebellion should have been the conclusion, though its added more like an afterthought. Im not sure if that's intentional (brilliant) or not (the author was not going to write a sequel, so they slammed the reader with some obvious ending). There was sgreat ome potential for interesting exploration to happen in this book, including when does resistance to tyranny become tyranny itself, but the book never got itself to that point. Though it does raises interesting questions. And is a worthy read.

A note to reader: This book contains coarse offensive sexual language. (NO... It is not erotica) Quite the opposite. And describes the placement of UTI medical contraceptive device that is very traumatic. Also it includes military training style, very graphic torture sessions, described in extremely vivid detail. Should have a warning on the cover. It is not suitable for younger readers.

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