pickIn the society where Eddie (Lavender Voclain) & best friend Margot live, resources are scarce & to ensure overpopulation is not a problem, everyone is inked with two playing cards when they are born - one on each wrist. Every New Years Day the Pick happens, two playing cards are drawn & any citizen who has the two matching cards as their tattoo are executed.
Eddie is in the midst of the final weeks of school, where (continued)
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The narrative is told by alternating between Eddie & Ren's points of view & I must say that, although both were interesting in their own way, I preferred Ren's story. This is quite a lengthy book at around 860 pages for the Kindle version, & 1y
TWs: animal death, death of a parent, executions, violence.
My thanks to the author & publishers, Lost Island Press, for the opportunity to read an ARC. I am voluntarily giving an honest review.
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Read 7th-10th July 2023 1y