The Declaration

I'm so pleased I reread this! It was just as mind blowing the second or third time around! Meet Anna. "I hate my parents. They broke The Declaration...they're in prison now. None of us knows anything about our parents anymore. Which is fine by me - I'd have nothing to say to them anyway." Imagine a w......more

My opinion on this book swayed back and forth between 3 and 5 stars, so I eventually settled on 4 and I'm now going to do my best to explain why. Why it got 4 stars This book got 4 stars for being a highly original and intriguing story. I'm a real lover of dystopian societies, especially those set in......more

Would you make the choice to live forever even if it meant you wouldn't be allowed to have children? In the year 2140 most people do. In order to take Longevity, people have to sign the Declaration. People that choose to have children anyway are arrested and put in prison and the children are taken......more

This is not a terrible book but it's not great either. The writing seems more like a children's book but the content is young adult so that kind of bothered me. It started really really slowly, i felt like 'I get it already, She wants to be a good little surplus, surpluses are bad, just shut up and......more

4.5 - Yikes. If there's anyone out there who thinks only the horror genre can scare them they need to pick this up. I have a hard time with the classification of some books, YA in particular. Why is this YA? Because of the main characters? There are more than a few supporting non-teen characters. Wh......more