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Good. Shows how education can be used in a harmful way. Shocking in places but it was needed to speak to you about this issue. Full of twists and turns, keeps you guessing till the very end.

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Thank goodness for cheap kindle books! As I can't find my physical copy of this so I remembered that I had a digital copy due to Kindle deals! 📚📖

Meh. I was underwhelmed by Dalcher‘s first book, but thought I would give her a second chance. This just didn‘t do it for me. I get showing not telling, but I felt like there were huge amounts of plot left untold, and I think her style just doesn‘t jive with me. #bookspin for March down though!!

My first Mr B's subscription was a good choice. At first I was a bit sceptical as I'm a bit over dystopia, but this was a pretty propulsive read. It's a little bit heavy handed in places where it makes very obvious links to past true events, rather than having the reader infer it. But I see what the author was trying to do, especially bringing one part of lesser known US 20th c history to light.

I got a Mr B's subscription for Christmas and I got my first selection today. Very exciting ❤️🐛

Apparently this book is known as Master Class in the US version.

Another great dystopian novel

Same format as 'Vox' which means this book lost it's originality. Elena as a lead character falls short, despite what she goes through & achieves the weakness that is shown at the beginning and through so many flash backs leaves a lasting impression...she's unlikeable. Interesting, scary concept which shows the awful history of the human race. Mixed feelings about this book.

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A book you can‘t put down-terrifying, gripping, powerful. My anger grew as the story progressed and fear in the back of my mind, please or please never let people in power think this way again-yes, again. My only complaint, why must publishers in the UK and the US use different titles? In the US the novel is known as Master Class.

Another book with a different name in the UK and USA
Dystopia in which everyone is given a Q or Quotient based on exam results, attendance, family income and other factors. People with high Q have everything including power. When her daughter is sent off to a state school for children with a low Q, a high ranking teacher sabotages her own score to go bring her back, but things are much worse than she suspected. ⭐️⭐️⭐️⭐️⭐️

By the author of VOX

I found Q to be a gripping, disturbing thriller and I read this in one sitting, I just had to know how it was going to end…..oh my !

It‘s well written, with great characters and a very clever plot. I loved Elena, even with her spiteful past, Lissa and Ruby Jo are brilliant and Malcolm is a truly despicable excuse of a man, which makes this a tense, terrifying and heartbreaking read. Utterly compelling.