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Flawed
by Cecelia Ahern
Oh how I have missed a good dystopia!! Flawed did not disappoint this novel is filled with all the things you need to make a dystopian- expectations, corruption, and a will to fight even if that will doesn't come from the main character at first! Our main character starts out as the least flawed person you would expect and is not the type of character to make a rash decision but in less than 50 pages she has fallen from grace and her character is called into question, she might be flawed!
In this world as the description states you are literally branded with an F if you are found to be flawed. You will be branded on your tongue if you lie or on your temple if you make a bad judgment and there are 3 others areas that can be branded all for different crimes. This practice began to keep corrupt politicians and business men in line but soon snowballed into punishing regular people for the smallest offense.
The most beautiful and scary part of this novel is how much it mirrors our own reality, discrimination and prejudice is a huge aspect and Ahern executed it so well! If you are looking for a book with a diverse cast but the diversity is not harped on this is the book for you. Diversity in YA is a huge topic right now and I feel as if authors through in diverse characters just to call their book diverse but not Ahern she mentions it but it is not just thrown in and I really appreciate that!
There is a slight caste system in this novel while it only contains two casts, the flawed and the un-flawed it made for an interesting aspect. The one thing that I can say I did not enjoy is how the punishment system didn't seem realistic. If a person commits even the smallest offense once they are branded and outcast for life even their children are punished if both of their parents are "flawed". While I don't necessarily like this aspect it does make for a dark book and since it resembles our own society so closely it is scary!
In this world as the description states you are literally branded with an F if you are found to be flawed. You will be branded on your tongue if you lie or on your temple if you make a bad judgment and there are 3 others areas that can be branded all for different crimes. This practice began to keep corrupt politicians and business men in line but soon snowballed into punishing regular people for the smallest offense.
The most beautiful and scary part of this novel is how much it mirrors our own reality, discrimination and prejudice is a huge aspect and Ahern executed it so well! If you are looking for a book with a diverse cast but the diversity is not harped on this is the book for you. Diversity in YA is a huge topic right now and I feel as if authors through in diverse characters just to call their book diverse but not Ahern she mentions it but it is not just thrown in and I really appreciate that!
There is a slight caste system in this novel while it only contains two casts, the flawed and the un-flawed it made for an interesting aspect. The one thing that I can say I did not enjoy is how the punishment system didn't seem realistic. If a person commits even the smallest offense once they are branded and outcast for life even their children are punished if both of their parents are "flawed". While I don't necessarily like this aspect it does make for a dark book and since it resembles our own society so closely it is scary!