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This is excellent, high quality dystopian. It's powerful, thought provoking, and very well-written. Once it hooks you, you're sucked in for good. It's dark (maybe too dark for some, so be warned) and suspenseful, and keeps you turning pages.
I feel like this would be the perfect book to read and discuss in a college classroom. I enjoyed pondering questions along the way, like: How did this happen? Could this happen in the real world? What would it take for people to behave this way? Would the wom ...more
I feel like this would be the perfect book to read and discuss in a college classroom. I enjoyed pondering questions along the way, like: How did this happen? Could this happen in the real world? What would it take for people to behave this way? Would the wom ...more
I really enjoyed reading this story. I love dystopian stories and in this one a mad scientist is in love with a fellow scientist named Beth who does not love him in return so his evil plan is to create a place where woman will be kept captive, whilst men can live freely. The beginning was a little slow as the author introduced us to this new world and described the different circuits, but then when we meet Beth259201 the pace is brilliant. Together with 201 we lose the closest thing we have to a
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Placed in a dank reality based on the imaginings of a maniacal scientist, FERTS is a facility where “women” are trained to be exactly what men in this post-apocalyptic world want them to be. Or at least how one man in particular thinks they should all be.
No longer even referred to as women, they are relegated down to just numbers as identifiers, and used as often as the male officers wish. All hidden behind the agenda of their “training” to be the ideal woman, and grace the men of the villages w ...more
No longer even referred to as women, they are relegated down to just numbers as identifiers, and used as often as the male officers wish. All hidden behind the agenda of their “training” to be the ideal woman, and grace the men of the villages w ...more
Wow what can I say a very interesting and thought provoking book, it pulled me into a frightening possibility of a future for mankind which I hope never happens, it is well and cleverly written and I lost myself in 201's plight if you enjoy books like the hunger games or handmaids tail you are going to love this, love the end where she run's fabulous
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Jun 20, 2017
Melissa
marked it as to-read
