“Wow! Shades of Fahrenheit 451 and Orwell’s 1984. Painfully real and urgent. Read this book.” —Michael Grant, New York Times bestselling author of the Gone series Bestselling author Joelle Charbonneau’s eerily timely, high-stakes page-turner is destined to start important conversations at this particular moment in our history. Meri Beckley lives in a world without lies. When she looks at the peaceful Chicago streets, she feels pride in the era of unprecedented hope and prosperity over which the governor presides. But when Meri’s mother is killed, Meri suddenly has questions that no one else seems to be asking. And when she tries to uncover her mother’s state of mind in her last weeks, she finds herself drawn into a secret world with a history she didn’t know existed. Suddenly, Meri is faced with a choice between accepting the “truth” or embracing a world the government doesn’t want anyone to see—a world where words have the power to change the course of a country and where the wrong ones can get Meri killed.

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Published Aug 25, 2020

336 pages

Average rating: 4.67

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E Clou
4/10 stars
This is a less good Fahrenheit 451. It's not as well-written and less entertaining. Also it lacks a broader philosophy beyond censorship is bad. Once it starts touching on other political issues of revolution it gets sloppy. It would be great if actual political philosophy experts or historians wrote these YA dystopian morality plays but alas, they do not.