VG/A Duffy, Shannon, Awakening. Entangled, 2015, 342p.
$16.99 ISBN: 978-1622665228
Desiree Six – The six being the sixth day of the week and
the number that determines the age when someone will die. She has always
believed in the Protectorate and the laws that had been made but she begins to
question them when her loyal, childhood friend Darian One is charged with murder – a crime punishable by life in the Terrorscape, he escapes jail and
tries to convince her of the faults within their society and what they are
being forced to believe. She soon learns that the dreamscape they use to sleep
is brainwashing them and even changing their memories. The concept was
interesting – the dystopian world we are introduced to has the Protectorate
governing where their sole purpose is to eradicate the manic world’s problems
by devising a system where marriage, dreams and jobs are determined for each
citizen; those who don’t comply are known as non-compliant and are put in a
nightmare Terrorscape at Olympus Jail which is witnessed by the population. Shannon
Duffy’s writing is vividly detailed and engaging; I enjoyed the characters
overall and I found the plot to be fast-paced and the world-building creative.
Dawn Fechter, Children/Youth Librarian, Inglewood Public Library
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