This was a REALLY interesting book that made me think of so many different topics! The value of copyrights vs. open source, the value of money, the corruption of money in government, the role of internet, equal access to internet, isolation, creating new food, loss of language and voice, etc. Even the idea of having to pay for your name or hair cut or past generations transgressions is eye opening. this is what I imagine would happen if North Korea and the USA merged (or if the USA just let some of their super right winged and already elected politicians loose).

It give me hints of Divergent (with the control and technology) and The Hunger Games (with the rag tag group of rebels and the sign of the rebellion being to draw your mouth zipped shut by your fingers).

I loved the creepy underworld/rebels group the most but everyone was pretty well developed. Speth is a really interesting character to watch and I was shoooooook by everything that she went through and did. I can't believe how different she was from the beginning vs. the end. It's slow to start but picks up around 1/3 of the way in.