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Title: Poster Girl
Author: Veronica Roth
Pages: 302
Publisher: Hodder & Stoughton
Release Date: 18th October 2022
Blurb from Goodreads:
A fallen regime. A missing child. A chance at freedom.
WHAT'S RIGHT IS RIGHT. Sonya Kantor knows this slogan -
she lived by it for most of her life. For decades, everyone in the
Seattle-Portland megalopolis lived under it, as well as constant
surveillance in the form of the Insight, an ocular implant that
tracked every word and every action, rewarding or punishing by a
rigid moral code set forth by the Delegation.
Then there
was a revolution. The Delegation fell. Its most valuable members were
locked in the Aperture, a prison on the outskirts of the city. And
everyone else, now free from the Insight's monitoring, went on with
their lives.
Sonya, former poster girl for the
Delegation, has been imprisoned for ten years when an old enemy comes
to her with a deal: find a missing girl who was stolen from her
parents by the old regime, and earn her freedom. The path Sonya takes
to find the child will lead her through an unfamiliar, crooked
post-Delegation world where she finds herself digging deeper into the
past - and her family's dark secrets - than she ever wanted to.
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My Review:
*I received an eARC of this book in exchange for an honest review. My thanks to NetGalley and Hodder & Stoughton*
Everyone knows Sonya Kantor's face - she was the poster girl for the Delegation who ruled the Seattle-Portland megalopolis.
The Delegation monitored everyone via Insights - ocular implants that recorded everything that was done and said.
When the Delegation was overthrown, Sonya was imprisoned alongside other people deemed to have done wrong by serving the Delegation.
Ten years after the fall of the Delegation, Sonya is given the chance to earn her freedom by finding out what happened to a missing girl who was taken from her family by the Delegation.
Sonya's search uncovers buried secrets and truths she might not want to face.
The blurb for this book really intrigued me, and I was looking forward to reading it.
I found Sonya to be a likeable and relatable protagonist. She was being punished for something that she'd done as a teen, something that wasn't harmful, but as the face of the Delegation she couldn't exactly be allowed to walk around freely by the new regime.
I liked finding out more about Sonya and I really felt for her - her family were all dead and she was basically waiting to die herself, living with barely anything of her own, in a place that sounded really stifling and depressing.
I really liked Sonya's relationship with her neighbour Nikhil, who was someone she knew from before their imprisonment.
The setting was interesting, as was the comparison between the Delegation and the Triumvirate who replaced them - it was quite thought-provoking.
The plot was enjoyable and held my attention. While I was surprised by some things that happened, I wasn't gripped.
The writing style was easy to follow.
Overall, this was an enjoyable read.
