Book source ~ NetGalley
14 February 2017
Fantasy | YA | Dystopian
368 Pages
My Rating ~ 4 bites
This is a dystopian world of slaves and Equals. Equals rule the land because they have magical abilities. Everyone else has to serve ten years of slavery. They can do it at any time of their life. Some do it early to get it over with, some wait until they’ve lived out most of their life. It doesn’t matter when only that they put in their time.
This book follows one family as they sign up for their term. Mom, dad, 18 yr-old Abigail, 16 yr-old Luke, and 10 yr-old Daisy. Abi makes arrangements for them all to serve on the Kyneston Estate, home of the Jardines, which should be a whole lot better than a factory town, a slavetown, like Millmoor. Except the orders are changed and Luke gets sent to Millmoor instead and the Jardines have personal issues of their own.
While this is a suspenseful read and a fascinating world, I can’t put my finger on why it’s not a 5 star read for me. The writing is pretty good and there’s multiple POVS, too. Maybe it’s the characters. While they are great I just couldn’t get invested in them. In any case, there’s suspense, a mystery, intrigue, creepiness, good guys, bad guys, and people with awesome and terrifying abilities. The ending is a bit of a cliffhanger, so it’s obviously going to be picked up in book 2.
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