Name: Scored
Rating: 3.75 (4 reviews)
ISBN: 9780375867910

Lauren McLaughlin

In the not-so-distant future, teenaged Imani must struggle within a world where a monolithic corporation assigns young people a score that will determine the rest of their lives.

Scored

Stef Hite

A little disappointed with the ending ... But still, an interesting perspective on today's student dilemma - should I invest so much of myself in grades and testing. All HS juniors can relate.

Sarah Sammis

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 As much as I use to hate Dystopian books when I started reading YA awhile back now I can't get enough of them. It seems like lately that's what interests me. Maybe, I'm just burned out with paranormal right now. You know us readers can be a fickle person. :)

I started reading Scored back when I was more into the paranormal books so I only got 30 pages in and gave up. It honestly didn't seem like it was going anywhere. Now go back a couple of days from today and I picked it up again to see what I thought. I really enjoyed it. 

The concept really doesn't seem to far off from something that's possible. I'm talking way, WAY in the future, but still. Technology has come so far from what is use to be that microchips and the government using technology to keep up with us and watch us isn't so unbelievable.

Characters
Imani is the MC in Scored and like all dystopians MCs she believed in what her government was doing. So when one of her teachers assigns the class a writing project to go against what you believe (so if you were unscored you would say why the score system works and vice versa) she had a hard time with it, but she also found her self working with Diego an unscored later on going against everything she believed. We all know what happens in these kind of situations.

I believe as the story went on, and Imani spent more time with Diego she learned that not everything is always black and white, governments don't always have the people best interests at heart. Sometimes you have to go against what you believe in order to find who you really are. I love characters who learn things and grow.

Diego was absolutely adorable as well, and if I was scored I would have found a way to see him too. He started off as a conceded know it all, but I think he just had strong beliefs that being scored was crap (my words totally).

In the end I really enjoyed the book like I said and kind of hoped that it would have a second one, but I don't think that will happen.

Jessica Nottingham

Imagine a world where your every move is watched. Every decision you make, no matter how small it might seem to you, dictates how "fit" you are for society. College, a good job, a family, that all revolves around your score. You are scored on who you spend time with, how healthy you are, what you read, pretty much every aspect of your life. Welcome to Imani's world. For her and all the other teenagers in her society, this is reality.

In ScoredMcLaughlin weaves a story that is centered in a society so similar to our own that it is just eerie. Sure, we don't have cameras following us everyday. Or do we? I reveled in the fact that the author relates a lot of what is happening in Imani's world to our current world, which is the past world in the book. It adds an element of terror to the book, as the reader realizes that Imani's world actually does have a chance to become reality.

Imani starts out the story with a score in the 90s. Her life is set. For Imani, Score Corp isn't big brother. They are a benevolent company who gives people like her a way for her to transcend above the life she was handed. I liked Imani for the most part. Her strength was admirable, and her interactions with others brought her character to life. There were portions of the book where her criticism of others bordered on overbearing, but I reminded myself that she was born into a brainwashed society. 

What really kept me from falling completely into Scored was that it revolved so heavily around Imani and Deigo's story. Almost the entire story they are working on a paper for a scholarship, and at the same time discovering the dark secrets that Score Corp is hiding. However at the end none of that really makes much of a difference. In fact, the climax that I was eagerly awaiting never really came at all. It was wholly disappointing.

Overall I'd say that Scored was a quick and entertaing read. Despite my disappointment at the ending, I feel like the book as a whole is rather solid. I'm not sure if there is another book in the works. If there is, I'd welcome some more of Imani's story.

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