2 Stars
Rachelle Dekker
“Not to be Chosen would yield a cruel fate of my own making.”
Like all citizens since the Ruining, Carrington Hale knows the importance of this day. But she never expected the moment she’d spent a lifetime preparing for—her Choosing ceremony—would end in disaster. Ripped from her family, she’ll spend her days serving as a Lint, the lowest level of society. She knows it’s her duty to follow the true way of the Authority. But as Carrington begins this nightmare, rumors of rebellion rattle her beliefs. The whispers contradict everything she’s been told; yet they resonate deep within. Then Carrington is offered an unprecedented chance at the life she’s always dreamed of, but she can’t shake the feeling that it may be an illusion. With a killer targeting Lints and corruption threatening the highest levels of the Authority, Carrington must uncover the truth before it destroys her.
I took a chance on this book thinking it might pan out, but honestly it was a chore trying to get through it. About a third of the way through I was struggling and I kept going, because I just wanted to find out what was going to happen to Carrington. It opens in a dystopian society that has been reformed to a belief system that women are nothing more then property. You must be chosen by a man and if not you are worthless. Carrington, who is the epitome of righteousness, somehow ends up not being chosen and becomes the family blemish who is quickly carted away from society. In her new world she is scared and berates herself for making the mistake of not being perfect enough, it was so annoying, I know that is what the whole book was suppose to be about but ugh! And of course because she can't have it a small flame of love sparks with a kind guard. Of course life sucks and she is somehow swept in whirlwind to a second chance she is then picked to be a bride for a very important man. She discovers nothing is what it seems and though he is important he has a nasty temper, he believes himself to be the person sent to cleanse the evil from the world. It gets nasty and just goes horribly wrong for Carrington. I'll leave it there as to not give away anything, but I just shouldn't have read this book. It was so agitating and demeaning for women.
