Eve Smith
Auteur de The Waiting Rooms
Œuvres de Eve Smith
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- Œuvres
- 5
- Membres
- 61
- Popularité
- #274,234
- Évaluation
- 4.1
- Critiques
- 2
- ISBN
- 14
- Langues
- 1
The protagonist of the novel, Kai Houghton, is one of those "baby reapers", employed by the Ministry of Population and Family Planning. The novel kicks off with her finding a mysterious adult in the system who seems to be an "excess birth". Moreover, that person appears in her own family tree - her sister. The novel will take her on a journey to discover secrets about her own family, but also the ones on a much larger scale.
This is a well-written speculative fiction thriller that is so realistic and believable that it reads like our own reality. Lots of important topics tackled: government overreach and propaganda, mistreatment of immigrants, children's and women's rights... A really good book.… (plus d'informations)