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A Girl Called Fearless (2014)

by Catherine Linka(Favorite Author)

3.79 of 5 Votes: 4

ISBN

1250039290 (ISBN13: 9781250039293)

languge

English

genre

Romance

publisher

St. Martin's Griffin

series

A Girl Called Fearless

review 1: A different kind of dystopian story, this one has the end of society as we know it coming as a result of a synthetic hormone in beef. The result of this is that women in the US have died in dramatic numbers. The remaining girls are considered valuable property, commonly being sold off to the highest bidder for huge profits. Not a bad story, and certainly enjoyable enough. It just wasn't one of those "can't put it down" books for me.
review 2: Aveline (Avie) lives in Southern California in a time when most girls are under 20 or over 60. A synthetic hormone in beef caused ovarian cancer, killing 50 million American women about ten years before the book is set. Girls and women of childbearing age have become a commodity and a group called the Paternalists is ta... moreking over control of government and society. Girls can be sold to husbands when they turn 16 and then begin having babies, to make sure that society is repopulated. Wealthy girls like Avie have bodyguards and are closely protected by their families, and usually forbidden from interacting with boys their age. Avie's life reaches a turning point and she has to decide who she is and what she stands for.This is an engaging, well-written, unique book. A Girl Called Fearless is a total page-turner but also makes some very thought-provoking points. The descriptions are very vivid and there are parts that are scary or suspenseful enough that I had to stop reading it before bed. Aveline is a complex protagonist and I like that she has moments of basically saying that she doesn't care about the revolution and she just cares about love. This is more honest and makes it less of a purely political book. I highly recommend it to adults and teens alike, and will order it for my middle school (7th and 8th grade) library and book talk it to older/more mature readers. I'm very excited for the sequel, a Girl Undone, coming out June 25, 2015. less

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