First, a personal disclosure: I am not a teenager. It
has been a looong time since I have been a teenager, or even had a teen child. Having said that, you can take my review
of this book with a grain of salt. I found this book dark and disturbing
and will NEVER recommend it to a teen. After I read it, I went back and
read reviews to see what it was I missed, but I still do not see why everyone
so loves this book...everyone but me!
Picture a future society where there is an
epidemic of teen suicides. So much so that "the Program" has
been created. Now if your teen so much as sheds a tear in public, you can
have a handler haul them off to have all their unpleasant memories erased.
They will not remember how their brother died, instead, they will believe
any lie you tell them. They will not remember their boyfriend or their
best friend if, by association, it will make them remember something sad.
The teens are constantly being watched and "The Program" has
turned some of their friends into such zombies that suicide seems a viable
alternative. Antidepressants are bad, but drugs that erase your memories
are good? This book is the first in a series, but needless to say, I will
not be reading any of the others.
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