Review: Amazing story, I truly couldn't put it down!
Rating: 3 out of 5
Date: 03 12, 2014
I started it for some 'light reading' before bed, and managed to read through the night until I finished. I am surprised, I wasn't expecting to like it as much as I did. The story is one of our main character, Macey Holsinger, and her life leading up to her Date. The Date is just that, a date on the calendar, that everyone is given on their 16th birthday. The date is for no earlier than their 20th birthday, and on that date, every 10 years, they must go to the government for testing. Testing to find the cure of 'the disease'. The disease, that's been around for over a hundred years (I don't remember exactly how long) but no cure has been found. American's freedom has become less free...all in the name of the cure.There are twists that you kinda see coming, but twists nonetheless in the story as well.I found the story line interesting, and the way the author has described this new America, I thought she was on to something. The way Macey thought outside the box that the government put her in, the author was definitely on the right track...then she slipped. Not far, but, slipped nonetheless. She could have done SOOOOOOO much with this idea, and she already had a great foundation. The characters were well thought out, and relationships formed between the reader and each character to the point that when one dies, I'm bawling my eyes out. The author was >thisclose< and then she seemed to quit. I felt like she just decided to quit the book, and threw down an ending. It felt so rushed, I'm flipping back and forth on my kindle, searching up the book online, trying to figure out where the rest of it went. As much as it pains me, I have to say that the ending was so off-putting I'm not sure if I want to read anything else by her. She raised my hopes so high...*sigh* besides the ending, there were a few inconsistencies in the book that can be overlooked, but bothered me, so I'm putting them here, in case the author wants to read my drivel....In the beginning of the book, Macey's attention is directed to a flag in her history book, but she doesn't even know what a flag is. HOWEVER, we're told that she's watched Schindler's list, lord of the rings, back to the future, and has access to all sorts of 'old' movies...of which SOOOO many of them would show FLAGS.Then there's the TV. To quote Macey "I'd seen a television at the museum, so I had a basic understanding..." ..."today everything was digital and stored on your home's mainframe. There were no televisions, only high definition projectors"... but yet, they 'gather around the TV' quite a few times in the book.(I said they can be overlooked, and I already called my writings drivel, so if you're still reading, you can't complain) there were a couple other things, like the home decontamination thing, and how it seemed to take a while, but then all of a sudden everyone else is just walking into the house and it seems they're no longer being decontaminated by 'Rosie' (the house), and do places of business or employment do decontamination? We're never told she'd been decontaminated before walking into the studio, or art gallery, or anything....anyway. So. Aside from that? Amazing book. I'm just stuck on the lackluster ending *sigh*