I did NOT expect this book to be what it was about! Reading the blurb/description, I knew a bit of what I was in for but it was so much more than what I thought I was in for. I received this kindle book through a giveaway featured on Goodreads in exchange for my honest review. This almost feels like the second book in the series, where they all rebel, except we didn't get the first book where it showed (not just told us) what they were rebelling against. Well, since we didn't see any actual character (with a name) acting according to the norms, they can't really be very strong norms, can they? This book, redone to show their society enough that it means something when the main characters all ditch it, would have been powerful and exciting. Seriously every character that had a name, kept saying how what they were doing was so out of character for their society and so against their social norms. If she had added some material of seeing what the 3034 society was like, when it was actually functioning like they all said it did, instead of every single character acting contrary to what was supposedly accepted as how society behaved. This feels like a really good first draft. But there was a TON of telling instead of showing. The ideas were really good, there was pretty good world building.
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