read by Kyla Garcia
Unabridged audio (9:54)
2019 Katherine Tegen Books
384 pgs.
YA Dystopia
Finished 3/31/19
Goodreads rating: 3.78 - 982 ratings
My rating: 1
Setting: Dystopian Mexico, seemingly
First line/s: "Daniela Vargas woke at the first whisper of footsteps coming up the road."
My comments: Yuck. I'm so glad this endless book is over. It took a zillion pages to tell a story that could've been told in 100. So incredibly repetitious that I went cross-eyed every time Dani thought the same thoughts over and over...and over...again. I don't care about any of the characters. At all. I hve no idea why it's gotten so many good reviews...I do love the premise, but not much else.
Goodreads synopsis: At the Medio School for Girls, distinguished young women are trained for one of two roles in their polarized society. Depending on her specialization, a graduate will one day run a husband’s household or raise his children, but both are promised a life of comfort and luxury, far from the frequent political uprisings of the lower class. Daniela Vargas is the school’s top student, but her bright future depends upon no one discovering her darkest secret—that her pedigree is a lie. Her parents sacrificed everything to obtain forged identification papers so Dani could rise above her station. Now that her marriage to an important politico’s son is fast approaching, she must keep the truth hidden or be sent back to the fringes of society, where famine and poverty rule supreme.
On her graduation night, Dani seems to be in the clear, despite the surprises that unfold. But nothing prepares her for all the difficult choices she must make, especially when she is asked to spy for a resistance group desperately fighting to bring equality to Medio. Will Dani cling to the privilege her parents fought to win for her, or to give up everything she’s strived for in pursuit of a free Medio—and a chance at a forbidden love?
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