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Bridge 108 by Anne Charnock
4.0
This novel takes place in a near-future (and very believable) dystopian England. Immigrants are pouring in from fire-and drought-ravaged Southern Europe. Legally and illegally, with many being trafficked. Charnock has an earlier book that also takes place in this world.
Charnock's world building is what I enjoyed most about the novel, and made me want to know more. England has changed from the world we know. On the legal side are simulants, implants, innoculations, indentured servitude, and right to stay. For citizens, where you live, your job, and whether you receive an implant all depends on how you do on various test. In this novel 12-year-old Caleb became separated from his mother in France, and was trafficked to England. This book follows him as he tries to make his way in England. He's a good worker and serious, but will that be enough?
This very much reads as YA to me--not just because of Caleb's age, but the book is also very clean (no cursing, sex is only alluded to, violence is limited and not graphic at all), and is a quick and easy read. I also think this would be fine for middle grade readers (if they are reading Hunger Games, this one is certainly fine).
I love dystiopias, and I wanted to know more about this world: the innoculations, implants, and simulants, but those may be addressed in the other book. It is also clear from the ending that there will be a third book, which I will be reading. I have the first on hold at the library.
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Thanks to Net Galley and 47North for providing me with an e-galley of this book.
Charnock's world building is what I enjoyed most about the novel, and made me want to know more. England has changed from the world we know. On the legal side are simulants, implants, innoculations, indentured servitude, and right to stay. For citizens, where you live, your job, and whether you receive an implant all depends on how you do on various test. In this novel 12-year-old Caleb became separated from his mother in France, and was trafficked to England. This book follows him as he tries to make his way in England. He's a good worker and serious, but will that be enough?
This very much reads as YA to me--not just because of Caleb's age, but the book is also very clean (no cursing, sex is only alluded to, violence is limited and not graphic at all), and is a quick and easy read. I also think this would be fine for middle grade readers (if they are reading Hunger Games, this one is certainly fine).
I love dystiopias, and I wanted to know more about this world: the innoculations, implants, and simulants, but those may be addressed in the other book. It is also clear from the ending that there will be a third book, which I will be reading. I have the first on hold at the library.
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Thanks to Net Galley and 47North for providing me with an e-galley of this book.