So when she’s suddenly taken and everything unique about her is slowly erased until she becomes just like everyone else, Oscar’s world quickly falls apart. He’s watched problem children become perfect little specimens, adults turned drones in his father’s vision of a perfect world, and watched every single thing that could ever be unique about a person get slowly erased as the people spend more and more time listening to music peppered with “messages” that are meant to control each and every citizen living there.Īnd when “perfect” Oscar Banks meets Nia he knows, but basically decides for himself, that she’s special. He’s spent his entire life watching the people around him become exactly like everyone else. The brainwashed town of Candor took someone who could have been less plagued and disgusted with the world around him and put him in the scary role of being the only person in town who really knew what was going on. What are we willing to give up for perfection? What will we do to keep the people we love? How far is a person willing to go? And she does it in such a way that it gives us a view into a dystopian world that a great many blindly believe is a utopia.Īnd how could you not sympathize with the main character? How could you not find him enticing? Her novel is told from the point of view of an almost pervy little shit who I simply couldn’t help loving every step of the way. It’s somewhat Stepford Wives-esque, but still manages to be uniquely its own.īachorz touches base with some important and fascinating questions people have been faced with for years. The story takes readers into a horrifying authoritarian community through the eyes of an amazingly interesting and dynamic young man who has been fighting the control of his father for years.
Pam Bachorz explores an incredibly unique world one cannot help but love to hate. But I do often find myself feeling as though this book doesn’t get the credit it deserves for being so fantastic. And for some readers, that might not be their sort of book and that’s fine. The main character can, at times, be a bit of an ass.
To be fair, I can understand why because by the time you’ve reached the end of the novel you’re just frustrated and upset. And, truthfully, it bugs me that the novel doesn’t have a higher average rating. This is one of those books that just hits me right in the feels.
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