The Declaration by Gemma Malley
The first in a trilogy of amazing books. About a world in which there has been a ground breaking cure to prevent the process of ageing called ‘longevity.’ As the world becomes more populated the only reasonable answer to prevent any further over population is to make everyone to sign a deceleration which in simple terms means they cannot have children. With a few exceptions the very rich and important are sometimes allowed to have children or that you stop taking the medication after the birth of your child. But in many cases the people who are taking the drug have been alive for decades so as soon as they stop taking the drug they age SUPER QUICKLY most people not living longer than a couple of weeks.
The few people who are found to have broken this deceleration children are then taken away to ‘surplus’ halls which they are then trained to be servants and do any jobs which are seen as a stress for society. Their esteems battered by the icy words that they are not wanted in society. Through out their lives in these institutions they are constantly made to repent the fact that they were born and that they should hate their birth parents for breaking the deceleration. The children,as they are not wanted are not allowed to take ‘longevity.
The book is centered around a girl called Anna who has lived in this institution and has been ‘successfully’ indoctrinated and hates her parents and her existence on the Earth and believes that he aim in life is to become a valuable asset, that is until a boy called Peter arrives who challenges her every thought and makes her see the world in a new-found light he brings a fresh view of the outside world as he managed to live with his parents under the national radar for many years, along with him he brings some revolutionary ideas.
At the beginning of the book I found Anna quiet an annoying character but as you get further in you start to understand why she is so stubborn and can sympathies with the fact she was raised in an institution where her life was no more important than the clothes she was wearing. I loved the fact she was realistically stubborn and believes what she was raised to and was not straight away swayed by the notion of freedom and a changing outside world. Mrs Pincent the women running the institution is a typical villain but this completely clashes with the style of the story. You gain so much respect for the fact that Anna wasn’t so naive as to just follow the new ‘hotty’ at her institution. She has a real back bone .
This book really shocked me I didn’t anticipate for it to be so goo. I found as I read it I got taken further and further into the book and by the end you don’t want it to end. Also the relationship between Anna and Peter is never 100% in your face, I would call it a sweet beginning. They aren’t always talking and thinking about each other which reflects the manner in which they were raised in. It is completely different to the usual style of book I would read but I can’t really find a criticism. There are two other books in the series The Resistance and The Legacy, which I am thoroughly looking forward to reviewing during July.
This book is shockingly good and has you hungry to know more. I would recommend it to those who want an easy read. 8/10.
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