Review: It's the US today
Rating: 5 out of 5
Date: 05 5, 2014
The current situation in America is very alarming. Domestically, Jobs are lost and people have to work like a slave to get by. On an international setting, the country is losing its grip of influence on other countries. It is therefore not surprising that some Americans may hope that a powerful government may take charge for a little change.This is exactly what happens in the parallel universe in this book. In 2029, the United States has undergone a political reform. A coalition of conservative Southern states recover the in-debt US into a world power again. The cost is that Washington’s power has been taken away and there is a schism within the country. Bad people are sent to ghetto-resembling “reform zones” where the story of this book begins.Mary, the daughter of a red-state senator, fell in love with Maddy, the son of a blue-state refugee who lives in the Cincinnati reform zone. She decided to run away to his lover and she later went missing. Soon the two families began to develop drama as the story goes. I will not give away anything here, but I can say that it is a good reflection about the internal conflict with in the US in our world today.