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Poster Girl by Veronica Roth
3.5
mysterious reflective tense

Cool dystopian look into what the world would look like if we were monitored on our behavior in every aspect and every moment of our life, but also rewarded for behaving like the regime wants you to, and being punished if you step even a hair out of line. How it forms a generation who’ve only ever known this system, and trying to unlearn those patterns and recognize that beyond the propoganda, policing one’s actions constantly contradicts one sense of self. 

It made for some good reflections on what it means to be a person with agency and freedom and why someone would want to work with or want to rebel against such a system. The story itself was a bit surface level, and we never had any deep connections with any characters, which was quite alright.