We all know I'm a total dystopian junkie and sometimes THEY JUST TERRIFY ME. All Rights Reserved is like a crystal ball into the future and I'm like, someone get me out of this timeline.

Words matter. Words make ideas. They preserve truths and history. They express freedom and they shape it. Words mold our thoughts. That gives them value and power.

Speth is the this world's Katniss, thrown into the role as the face of a rebellion without even meaning to. Does it cost her a lot? Yeah, starting with her (already limited) right to speech. Not free speech, oh no. That doesn't exist in this world. This is the land where every word is trademarked, every haircut, even having window coverings is trademarked! Suing people for their debt to you for things like interrupting their day is common. Speth is living in a world where her parents are indentured as they are so far under debt that they can't get out.

Sound familiar? Yeah, and it's freaking terrifying.

You get till you're 15 to speak freely, express freely, exist freely. This is ten years before your brain is even fully formed and you're just expected to conform. Not Speth. Not after witnessing the death by suicide of her closest friend. Something in her clicks and she nopes out into a life of silence.

Can you believe they then trademark that silence? Of course you can. You're watching the news and looking at Net Neutrality and you're like, um yeah this is the future world so we better use our voices NOW before this becomes Earth-Prime.

Or maybe you're like, oh this is kind of an extreme view. Are you watching the news? We are living in the extreme. Get with it.

I was completely enraptured by the story as it unfolded. Some parts had me like 😱 and some like 😤 and others like 😭. There's some intense world building and some intense focus on characters and did I mention this book has everything you'd want in a science fiction book?