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Fable for the End of the World by Ava Reid
5.0
This truly is a love letter to the dystopian ya of the 2010s. You get the same feelings that you got when reading books like The Hunger Games but with more of the issues we face in the world today. Ava Reid excels at providing a compelling and thought provoking narrative while still giving a story that you don’t want to put down.
In a world, much like our own, where woman are valued for their looks before anything else Melinoë is an assassin. Part human and part machine she is the perfect weapon. She is also, however, extremely beautiful. The assassins, or Angels as they’re called in the book, are forced to undergo elective cosmetic procedures because who would watch the gauntlet and sponsor them if the killers weren’t beautiful?
Enter Inesa. The girl who was nominated to the gauntlet by her mother who just couldn’t stop spending money they didn’t have. She wants to live. She wants to live for herself, for her brother, and because she still believes in love and goodness in the world. You could really tell how strained her relationship was with her family. Her mom obviously didn’t care about her at all and her brother seemed almost indifferent towards her at the beginning. Trauma can cause relationships to change and twist and that’s definitely something that you can see here.
I really loved reading the relationship aspects of this book. Inesa slowly showed Melinoë that there were still people who believed in goodness and helping one another just because you want to and not because you’ll get anything out of it. When Melinoë finally decided that she wanted more? That she deserved more? That was probably my favorite part.
In a world, much like our own, where woman are valued for their looks before anything else Melinoë is an assassin. Part human and part machine she is the perfect weapon. She is also, however, extremely beautiful. The assassins, or Angels as they’re called in the book, are forced to undergo elective cosmetic procedures because who would watch the gauntlet and sponsor them if the killers weren’t beautiful?
Enter Inesa. The girl who was nominated to the gauntlet by her mother who just couldn’t stop spending money they didn’t have. She wants to live. She wants to live for herself, for her brother, and because she still believes in love and goodness in the world. You could really tell how strained her relationship was with her family. Her mom obviously didn’t care about her at all and her brother seemed almost indifferent towards her at the beginning. Trauma can cause relationships to change and twist and that’s definitely something that you can see here.
I really loved reading the relationship aspects of this book. Inesa slowly showed Melinoë that there were still people who believed in goodness and helping one another just because you want to and not because you’ll get anything out of it. When Melinoë finally decided that she wanted more? That she deserved more? That was probably my favorite part.