Her roommate is not another female, however, but a male, one who is disarmingly handsome, and furthermore, one that she knows.īefore long, the two prisoners, Juliette and Adam, are brought before Warner, the cruel leader of their district. But the main reason is that her own parents turned her in as “a freak of nature.”Īs the story begins, Juliette has been in solitary confinement for 264 days, and she has just been told she is getting a roommate. Once, when overcome by a desire to help a little boy, without forethought she picked him up with fatal effect, and that is in part why she is incarcerated. In Juliette’s case, if she touches anyone, that person will die. In this future scenario, the ecosystem has become severely distorted by human abuse, and one of the effects is that some people have developed “special abilities” that are not normal. But, as with most dystopias, the new group in control has become drunk on power and despotic. The story is told in the form of entries in the diary of Juliette Ferrars, a 17-year-old who has been imprisoned by “The Reestablishment,” the government faction that is supposed to renew the dying society. This is a young adult dystopia that readers either love or hate (I explain why under Discussion, below), and I’m totally in the “I loved it” camp.
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