A review by saracox
Q by Christina Dalcher

4.0

I think at some point (probably as a teenager) everyone has thought "what if we just got rid of all the stupid people?" This book takes that thought and makes it a distopian reality. Based not too far into the future, society has become a hierarchical system based on Q scores. What you can do and have depends purely on this score. A woman who helped develop this system finds herself stuck when her youngest daughter gets a score so low that she gets shipped off to a boarding school. This is a really interesting read, that I really enjoyed. It was scaringly close to home, and seemed completely feesible if the wrong people came into power. The reason this was given only 4 and not 5 stars was because if kind the beginnings of this system infeesible. It began with a groups of pupils putting it within the school system, which other schools adopted. Working in a school myself, I can't believe that such obvious discrimination would be allowed and then become national school policy. Other than this one aspect of the narrative, I found it all very interesting. Including all the scientific and historic referneces.