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If you like dystopian fiction sugary sweet, you may like this more tham me. Wade does write well, interesting characters and the plot does move along nicely. However, I struggled with the obsessive recounts of baking and strict diet. I would be more concerned over the surveillance, arrests, disappearances, loss of autonomy, freedoms etc. It just made me think of cake, which was annoying cos I didn't have any. 🤔🎂🙄

1. Tagged, In the land of giants and Fen
2. The crimson petal and the white by Michel Faber
3. Fiction - Sundial by Catriona Ward
Non-fiction - Burning questions - Margaret Atwood

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@rachelsbrittain

This was my first proper read in a while due to not feeling 100%, but i am SO glad i chose this book to read! 😍
I loved the story line, i loved the characters, i loved how it ended, but at the same time i also felt fear inside at the thought of 'what if' the world turned into Mother Masons dream?! I'd definitely read this again, and I am currently sitting down picturing what Olivia and her family would be doing if there were to be a sequel! 🥰

I am loving this book! ❤️ And i am loving my Christmas tree! 🥰
Christmas films on the TV for the kids while i get to sit and read some 😊

Fascinating and oddly realistic dystopian novel that made me really think about consequences. If sugar was a class A drug where does that take us.... however for as much as the world building is fascinating this fell a little flat. A rare book that might have benefited from multiple narrators? Trafalgar Square plays large in this one and I love this photo from a few years ago

My team at work gave me Waterstones vouchers for my birthday - my entirely #blameitonlitsy order just arrived

I am using the tagged book for March's prompt for this challenge.

@MrBook @clairerwade #readwithmrbook

Very good. Interesting characters and concept. A real page turner and a atmospheric book. My only issue with this is that there could have been a chapter near the beginning to explain how they came to be living in this world with the government banning unhealthy food, rather than little snippets here and there. Fans of The Handmaid's Tale and Vox will love this. Can't believe this is a debut novel.

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@clairerwade

Anyone else read this? From the description it seems to be along the lines of Handmaid's Tale and 1984

"It was impossible to ignore the Shame Box."
I know that line off by heart.
I guess I should since I wrote it.
Today is publication day and I'm over the moon that my story about a world where sugar is illegal and baking is a crime is finally out in the world.