Review: Grabbed me from the start
Rating: 5 out of 5
Date: 07 11, 2014
This story grabbed me from the opening scene. The writing, the tension, the feeling that the protagonist was being marched toward something not of her choosing kept me reading to find out what was going to happen next. At first I wondered about the kidney Kelsey had been ordered to give up—in this new technological order, might scientists have the ability to clone one?—but then I just started going with the world RJ Clayton had built. Of course it made sense. With what was left behind after the pandemics, the culture would have lost some of its technological progress, focusing instead on single-minded methods for preserving existing life, even though this posed interesting ethical dilemmas about personal choice versus the good of the whole. Which is the catalyst that gets the story rolling. I really liked the relationships between the characters, especially Kelsey and her politician father. I enjoyed the twists and turns, Kelsey’s sense of humor that got her through so many horrible situations (not giving any away) and the way Ms. Clayton kept raising the stakes on her characters, right to the end. Looking forward to the next book!