Review: Hooked with the first few lines.
Rating: 5 out of 5
Date: 07 1, 2014
I received a copy of this book in exchange for an honest review.Anne Tibbets, I hope they make a movie of The Line!I usually know whether or not I'll like a book by the end of the first chapter.  In this case I was hooked by the first few lines, and I knew that this was going to be a great journey, I was right!The Line is a dystopian novel (an imagined place or state where everything is chaotic or unpleasant, for example, The Hunger Games or Divergent).  I will be bold and be the first to voice what many people will soon know, The Line precedes all books in this genre!It is absolutely fabulous!  The plot is well constructed, the events and circumstances appropriate to the surroundings, and the characters rounded to the extent that I could associate with them even though their lives are vastly different from my own.The Line is a futuristic brothel.  Bought girls are enslaved and booked for hourly appointments.  The story starts off where Naya, our protagonist, wakes up on a two-inch-thick-mattress and can barely open her eyes to line up for roll call.  She remembers her last appointment as 'rough' (in actual fact, she was beaten to a near pulp!).  In short, she is told that she is pregnant and has to find a replacement for herself on the line or have her babies taken in her stead.  Events lead up to an unimaginable climax and Naya finds herself in the center of a revolution.  Above all odds she proves her worth and is faced with believing it to be true.Anne Tibbets mentioned in the authors note, that she was hesitant to add a dream sequence where Naya, remembers fragments of the human trafficking that she was subjected to.  My honest opinion is that it is exactly this piece of 'heart' that elevates The Line above its peers.Reviewed by Soreta5-Bombs