I HAVE TO SAY…

SYNOPSIS

16-year old Adina lives in 2123 inside an eco-bubble in Africa. When their home explodes, she and the other survivors have to figure out their next steps to safety, while staying alive in a dangerous environment where Nomalies have been whispered to hunt.

What could happen?

RECAP AND REVIEW

Thank you to NetGalley, the author, and the publisher for an arc.

This is a dystopian, YA novel, told only from the first person perspective of Adina.

This is a re-release!

Adina is sixteen. Some of her choices and thought processes are misguided. She can be immature and naive when she chooses to be. She neglects her responsibilities and understandably doesn’t care about authority figures. She can be cruel.

But underneath all of that, she’s scared and she just wants to be seen and liked and loved. She cares about the people she cares about and wants to keep them safe, even if it means making hard decisions.

In this book, we know a certain amount of people will die as the story starts and progress, it’s just a matter of who and when. This book is a countdown. A countdown until the eco-bubble explodes, a countdown until people die, a countdown until their biochips that filter out the toxic chemicals of the outside world fail.

I was hooked from the beginning of the story, even though Adina can be annoying. My favorite part of the book was seeing how Adina and her childhood best friend’s relationship changed throughout.

This book is on the heavier side, providing commentary on GMOs, colonization, corporations, and their greed, colonization, revealing conspiracies and cover ups, and discussing preventable environmental and genetic changes.

Read for:

🕷️Dystopian

🕷️Young Adult

🕷️Spider imagery

🕷️Fight for survival

🕷️Love triangle vibes

🕷️Commentary on corporate greed

OVERALL

Overall, I give this a 4 out of 5 stars. It kept my interest and the world itself was cool, but I have mixed feelings on the ending and it would’ve been cool not to know what was going to happen before it happened.