This book was DEFINITELY a page turner. You couldn’t guess
at all what was coming next, and each climax of the book was as good as the
last. Many, many plot twists and GREAT character development. This book is
literally an emotional roller coaster, and you also feel anger towards certain
characters and ideas in the story.
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| It's the year 2140 and Longevity drugs have all but eradicated old age. A never-aging society can't sustain population growth, however…which means Anna should never have been born. Nor should any of the children she lives with at Grange Hall. The facility is full of boys and girls whose parents chose to have kids—called surpluses—despite a law forbidding them from doing so. These children are raised as servants, and brought up to believe they must atone for their very existence. Then one day a boy named Peter appears at the Hall, bringing with him news of the world outside, a place where people are starting to say that Longevity is bad, and that maybe people shouldn't live forever. Peter begs Anna to escape with him, but Anna's not sure who to trust: the strange new boy whose version of life sounds like a dangerous fairy tale, or the familiar walls of Grange Hall and the head mistress who has controlled her every waking thought? |
An interesting thing about this book is the philosophical
ideas and issues it brings up. Is it right for anyone to live forever? Is it okay
to label ANYONE as a ‘Surplus’? Frankly, I just hope they never ever find a
cure for old age because, this book has scared me away from that idea. Read the
series, and decide for yourself whether you would be pro-life or pro-choice in
this dystopian thriller.
~Bushra
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