Want, Cindy Pon
Want, Cindy Pon
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Want

Author: Cindy Pon

Narrator: Roger Yeh

Unabridged: 9 hr 9 min

Format: Digital Audiobook Download

Published: 06/13/2017


Synopsis

From critically acclaimed author Cindy Pon comes an edge-of-your-seat sci-fi thriller, set in a near-future Taipei plagued by pollution, about a group of teens who risk everything to save their city.

Jason Zhou survives in a divided society where the elite use their wealth to buy longer lives. The rich wear special suits, protecting them from the pollution and viruses that plague the city, while those without suffer illness and early deaths. Frustrated by his city’s corruption and still grieving the loss of his mother who died as a result of it, Zhou is determined to change things, no matter the cost.

With the help of his friends, Zhou infiltrates the lives of the wealthy in hopes of destroying the international Jin Corporation from within. Jin Corp not only manufactures the special suits the rich rely on, but they may also be manufacturing the pollution that makes them necessary.

Yet the deeper Zhou delves into this new world of excess and wealth, the more muddled his plans become. And against his better judgment, Zhou finds himself falling for Daiyu, the daughter of Jin Corp’s CEO. Can Zhou save his city without compromising who he is, or destroying his own heart?

About The Author

Cindy Pon is the author of Silver Phoenix, which was named one of the Top Ten Fantasy and Science Fiction Books for Youth by the American Library Association’s Booklist, the first title in another Chinese-inspired fantasy duology, is a Junior Library Guild Selection and received starred reviews from School Library Journal and VOYA. She is the cofounder of Diversity in YA with Malinda Lo and on the advisory board of We Need Diverse Books. Cindy is also a Chinese brush painting student of over a decade. Learn more about her books and art at CindyPon.com.


Reviews

Goodreads review by CW ✨ on July 31, 2020

We live in tumultuous times. Pollution and global warming are on the rise, the rich are getting richer while the poor are getting poorer, and we live in a society where corporations have a startling amount of power over our own lives. It is for these reasons that we need more books that tackle socia......more

Goodreads review by Ben on February 07, 2017

Cindy Pon's Want is an incredible insight into a future rocked by pollution and corruption. Dripping in Diversity and delicious romance. A FANTASTIC SciFi novel. YOU WILL 'WANT' THIS!......more

Goodreads review by Ava on July 30, 2017

4-4.5 stars. Leaning towards 4.5, because I can't stop thinking about this book. WOW. Cindy Pon's newest novel, WANT, is a thrill of a ride through a futuristic Taipei covered in smog with a cast of marginalized characters you cannot help but fall in love with. I want to start this review by saying:......more

Goodreads review by Elle on October 02, 2017

I have... no feelings. I mean, I never do, but I have especially few feelings after finishing this. For such a hyped book on twitter, I was really expecting a bit more? This didn't do much beyond entertain me. It was fine. I think I might've even liked this more if not for the hype. ¥ | PLOT —> clic......more

Goodreads review by mith on September 11, 2017

you can find this review and others over on my blog! --- This is the type of dystopian that we need more of! There's no overthrowing a government. There's no chosen one. There's no faction. It's a very real, very plausible, and a very fun book, if I do say so myself. Which, I admit, is a very strange......more