Dystopians are a very big part of my reading life. I love the strange ways and cultural norms that tend to be drawn for us. They constantly show that things could be worse especially when you are in a pandemic.
The fact that this is a new journey for Leigh Russell and it’s her first dystopian. It shows a different style of writing as crime or thrillers while somewhat connected to dystopian there are more differences.
Rachel’s Story is not hard hitting in your face style of book. It really seems more genuine as it shows that even though things aren’t good that there is always something that you look forward to.
The character has a lot of heartache and it seems like Rachel is a person who just wants to belong but there wasn’t a place for her it felt like.
Seeing her I could really feel what she was going through. I think that always makes a great character. Even if some of the points in this book seems very backwards to me it also shows that due to what happened they had to find a new simpler way of living.
Would I be able to live that way No but I guess you would adapt or die.
I also feel a great sense of regret for the character Rachel who wants freedom and seldom feels like she has it.
There has to be more books for this great story as it was the best dystopian I have read in close to 10 years
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