Name: Poster Girl
Rating: 3.694444444444445 (18 reviews)
ISBN: 9780358164098

Veronica Roth

Poster Girl

Lindsay

The way they joke, sometimes, is like digging a hole. Who can go deeper, who can go darker. If you can laugh while you’re drowning, David says, who’s to say you’re not going for a swim?

The last few days have taught her that there’s no clarity in love, no honesty—that a person doesn’t become better than they are just because you love them.

A fallen regime. A missing child. A chance at freedom. By the #1 New York Times bestselling author of Divergent, Poster Girl is a haunting adult dystopian mystery that explores the expanding role of surveillance on society - an inescapable reality that we welcome all too easily. WHAT'S RIGHT IS RIGHT. Sonya Kantor knows this slogan - she lived by it for most of her life. For decades, everyone in the Seattle-Portland megalopolis lived under it, as well as constant surveillance in the form of the Insight, an ocular implant that tracked every word and every action, rewarding or punishing by a rigid moral code set forth by the Delegation. Then there was a revolution. The Delegation fell. Its most valuable members were locked in the Aperture, a prison on the outskirts of the city. And everyone else, now free from the Insight's monitoring, went on with their lives. Sonya, former poster girl for the Delegation, has been imprisoned for ten years when an old enemy comes to her with a deal: find a missing girl who was stolen from her parents by the old regime, and earn her freedom. The path Sonya takes to find the child will lead her through an unfamiliar, crooked post-Delegation world where she finds herself digging deeper into the past - and her family's dark secrets - than she ever wanted to. Praise for Veronica Roth 'Poster Girl cements Veronica Roth's status as a superstar' Gregg Hurwitz, #1 International bestselling author of the Orphan X series 'Veronica Roth's latest outing will draw you into its broken world, and make you think more deeply of our own' Karin Slaughter, New York Times bestselling author of Girl, Forgotten'Roth weaves a tale of redemption and regret that kept me riveted and guessing until the last page' Hugh Howey, New York Times bestselling author of Wool and Across the Sand 'Veronica Roth is the cure for all those humdrum 'one true saviour' narratives' Charlie Jane Anders, Hugo and Nebula Award-winning author of THE CITY IN THE MIDDLE OF THE NIGHT, on CHOSEN ONES 'Roth has pulled off a virtuoso performance' Blake Crouch, bestselling author of DARK MATTER and RECURSION on CHOSEN ONES 'Roth somehow manages to make universe-building look easy' Charles Yu, bestselling author of INTERIOR CHINATOWN on CHOSEN ONES

I was waiting for Roth to come back to sci-fi and she didn't disappoint. This is a dystopia novel that never tries to fix the world. It exists as it is. The characters objective isn't to fix anything instead is to live in a new world after the fall of what many consider an oppressive regime. Although it becomes obvious pretty quickly that's a matter of perspective. There is good and bad as part of the world and of the characters. It's still a quest for justice, but that can take very different shapes and not always feel satisfying.

Joana

Lauren Grey

It was a really nice change to read this book from what I normally pick up. I hadn’t picked up a dystopian novel in at least three years and was eager to read this because I enjoyed Roth’s Divergent series when I was a teenager. 

One thing I didn’t realize when I started this book - going in mostly blind - was that it is about the aftermath of a previous dystopian government and you learn about that world through the main character’s memories. The world that government had set up was really interesting and I would have liked to have read a book set in that time instead of after it’s overthrow. 

I found the writing style to take me a few chapters to get used to and then I just kept waiting… waiting for some excitement, waiting for some suspense, waiting for the other shoe to drop. Although there were a few wtf reveals, I didn’t find them all that unexpected.

The very mild romance woven through the main character’s history and journey was such a breath of fresh air. It was exactly the break I needed.

Although I wanted more from this story, I don’t regret reading it and I did enjoy most aspects of it and plan to read Roth’s other adult dystopian book

Nessa Luna

A new dystopian mystery from the author of Divergent, following Sonya Kantor, the propaganda poster girl, for the abolished dictatorship regime.

Reading a dystopia book after the uprising has already occurred was really fascinating to me. It had all those elements I've come to love from a dystopian setting, with an intricate world system that I found fascinating. However, the plot kind of fell flat. It was there, but I constantly found myself searching for more.

Sonya's character felt so robotic. I mean, obviously, she's finding it hard to shake the old ways and manners she'd been brought up with, understandable after 17 years of it being programmed into her. But even when she saw what that old life had hidden from her, she still just lacked a fight, lacked the fire that I've grown to expect from Roth's female leads.

When the big mystery was finally revealed, I was a little in shock, I have to admit. But then it was kind of hinted throughout, maybe? I would have to read it to be sure.

It's not my favourite read by Veronica Roth, I just feel more could have been done with this world she's created, as it was very intricately put together, but lacked the execution. 

Victoria Justice

A new dystopian mystery from the author of Divergent, following Sonya Kantor, the propaganda poster girl, for the abolished dictatorship regime.

Reading a dystopia book after the uprising has already occurred was really fascinating to me. It had all those elements I've come to love from a dystopian setting, with an intricate world system that I found fascinating. However, the plot kind of fell flat. It was there, but I constantly found myself searching for more.

Sonya's character felt so robotic. I mean, obviously, she's finding it hard to shake the old ways and manners she'd been brought up with, understandable after 17 years of it being programmed into her. But even when she saw what that old life had hidden from her, she still just lacked a fight, lacked the fire that I've grown to expect from Roth's female leads.

When the big mystery was finally revealed, I was a little in shock, I have to admit. But then it was kind of hinted throughout, maybe? I would have to read it to be sure.

It's not my favourite read by Veronica Roth, I just feel more could have been done with this world she's created, as it was very intricately put together, but lacked the execution. 



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