Nation of Enemies

so-so

My goal for #22booksin22 is the 22 oldest, stand-alone ebooks on my Kindle. Lingering since April of 2016, this one was the oldest!! In Raynes's 2032, the US is in a state of incredible unrest. Ten years before, MedID was introduced, a chip that tracks all of your medical data & also assesses your DNA to determine your medical ID number based on how likely you are to develop medical conditions or diseases. There's a magic cut-off number that I ⬇

TheAromaofBooks (cont'd) can't remember now, like 72 or whatever, & everyone above a 72 is able to get jobs, move freely from place to place, or emigrate to another country. If you're below a 72, no one wants to hire you, countries don't want you to come live there, and consequently you struggle to find housing or ways to support your family. The 2032 presidential election is looming, and the book focuses on various characters trying to control the outcome. ⬇ 2y

TheAromaofBooks (cont'd) The creepy thing is that this book was actually published in 2015, long before anyone was talking about vaccine mandates or passports, so this book felt both behind and ahead of its time, if that makes sense. The beginning of the book was very good, setting the stage, but it slowly devolved into a rather basic thriller, with a wild-eyed religious man pulling the strings behind the curtain. It still would have been a soft pick except ⬇ 2y

TheAromaofBooks (cont'd) the ending was dreadful, with basically no resolution to any of the questions that had been raised. I'm glad to have this one off the list, but I struggled with it - it was also way too long at 528pgs. Still, first book down for #22booksin22 @jb72 !!!

Also:
#JumpStart2022 (finished this last week haha) @Clwojick @Lizpixie
#Pantone2022 - Daffodil @Clwojick
#RoadTripUSA2022 - New Hampshire (bit of a stretch, but we were there for a couple⬇ 2y

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TheAromaofBooks (cont'd) chapters haha) @megnews
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#AlmostaChunkster
#MountTBR
#OWLs #Divination
#BeattheBacklist2022 - Forgotten on ereader
#TheShelfieChronicles - Character with 2 different lives
#BookSpinBingo 2y

Clare-Dragonfly Jeez, that sounds like it could have been really interesting if it had stuck with it! 2y

TheAromaofBooks @Clare-Dragonfly - So much of his premise was really intriguing, with an entire country full of civil unrest, small communities popping up created by people whose MedID numbers aren't high enough to get good jobs, this idea of an underground MedID operation that can change your number, people who are proponents of the system because they believe it will lead to the eradication of health issues... but it just sort of fizzles away into a typical ⬇ 2y

TheAromaofBooks (cont'd) “crazy religious people want to kill the president, manly man must stop them“ plot without really any resolution to any of the concepts brought up by the MedID. It was quite frustrating when the book just... ended! 2y

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Nation of Enemies | H.A. Raynes

#WeeklyForecast - only a couple days left to wrap up some January reads, so obviously I am going to have some carry-over!! The tagged I actually finished about 1am this morning when I couldn't sleep lol I'm better than halfway through The Magic of Ordinary Days for #LMPBC. For the Wolf is for my other #LMPBC group so it is next priority. Not sure why I am so behind on those this month!! The Girl Who Could Breathe Underwater is an ARC with a ⬇️

TheAromaofBooks (cont'd) review due, so it's also high priority this week. Overall, I think I am only going to be carrying over a couple of books from my January TBR, so I'm pretty pleased. I never have started From Blood & Ash, but am still definitely planning to read it very soon. I honestly haven't been in a super read-y mood lately and have had a lot of other projects and such going on. February will be my first month off work, so I am hoping to clock more ⬇ 2y

TheAromaofBooks (cont'd) page time!!!

How are you doing @Cinfhen? Is all well at your end? ❤ 2y

Cinfhen I‘m feeling MUCH MUCH better…waiting for the spin 💞💞💞 2y

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