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Poster Girl
by Veronica Roth
A dystopian novel involving a missing girl and the girl who is tasked with finding her in order to gain her freedom. Set in a world in which everyone is monitored by a device called the Insight by an autocratic government known as the Delegation, Insight is implanted in the eye of people at a young age in order to track them. People are rewarded/punished based on their actions and words and our protagonist Sonya is used as the face for the advertisement of the Delegation’s slogan “What’s Right is Right” and earns herself the nickname of “Poster Girl”. When the Delegation is overthrown by the Triumvirate, Sonya and other prominent Delegation members are imprisoned in the Aperture and Insights are discontinued. Ten years later she is offered a deal by the Triumvirate, she is tasked with finding a girl named grace Ward and if she succeeds she will earn her freedom. The book focuses on themes of surveillance, social media, and public personas. Sonya is a very morally grey character and as she investigates the case she begins to learn complicated truths and will have to face difficult decisions. Overall this book just didn’t hook me, despite the interesting premise and the mystery, i just couldn’t find myself immersing in the story. Overall this is a great novel for fans of 1984 with a mixture of the hunger games, dystopian stories, and stories about surveillance states.
*Thank you William Morrow and Harper Collins for sending me an arc in exchange for an honest review*
*Thank you William Morrow and Harper Collins for sending me an arc in exchange for an honest review*