I read this book via Kindle Unlimited.

The Rule of One is a dystopian novel about twins born to a futuristic American nation that has a one child policy. The story was written by twins telling twins perspective. The premise was interesting, and I have wanted to read this book for a few months. The execution was not as well done.

There were not distinct voices between the sisters. Given circumstances I tried to give this some grace at the start of the novel. However, I felt it should not have still been an issue at the end of the novel. I was left wondering what was the point of having to separate narrators. The characters were not all that likable. Since they spent their entire live hiding that they were twins, I would have assumed they would have started out a little more hardened. Instead they were pampered. Then there was not much growth.

I was also thrown off by how the Spanish was written. First, if it is a closed nation why are they taking Spanish? There could be a good reason for this. Maybe, the elite schools teach it because the students may go into international relations. However, it came across as just being modeled after high schools today, without much thought as to how things would have changed with a closed society. Then when there is a speaker who only speaks Spanish what she says is written in Spanish and directly translated into English. It was awkward as a reader. I have seen much better ways of incorporating in other languages into a primary English reading demographic. But again, how does high school Spanish allow you to speak proficiently with a native Spanish speaker?