Bellin, Joshua David. Freefall. Margaret K. McElderry Books, 2017. $17.99. ISBN 9781481491655. 355 pages. Ages 14-up. P7 Q6.
Cameron Newell is part of the Upperworld, the privileged 1%. Cam watches a video of protesters in the Lowerworld of the 99% underprivileged and he falls for Sofie, a girl he sees through the video feed. He is on a quest to meet up with her. As a reader, you need to pay attention to Chapter titles and dates as they jump 1,000 years, and the locations change from Otherworld which is where Cam and his shipmates have woken up in the future, Earth, and to Lowerworld. With political decisions and different views of loyalty, the book has high level concepts yet has a simple not as developed love story. It has some made up futuristic words that take a while of reading to understand as well as different political aspects.
Verdict: For sci-fi readers, it provokes different perspectives on the class system of privileged and non-privileged persons. It is appropriate at high school libraries.
November 2017 review by Deborah Gwynn.
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