"Ruby dreams of escaping the Congregation. Escape from slaver Darwin West and his cruel Overseers. Escape from the backbreaking work of gathering Water. Escape from living as if it is still 1812, the year they were all enslaved.
When Ruby meets Ford - an irresistible, kind, forbidden new Overseer - she longs to run away with him to the modern world where she could live a normal teenage life. Escape with Ford would be so simple.
But if Ruby leaves, her community is condemned to certain death. She, alone, possesses the secret ingredient that makes the Water so special - her blood - and it's the one thing the Congregation cannot live without."
Review:
This book made me a raging ball of fury (redundancy necessary). Not to say this book was bad, in a sense, but the character just made me profusely upset. Most of the book, Ruby is near her breaking point and is about to fight back, despite what her mother says, "Otto saves. We sustain and endure." However, instead she ends up screwing everything up even more, then, figuratively, says "oh well." I was truly furious with her, because I knew she had good intentions, but she resisted her instincts and it ended up backfiring. What really surprised me was the sudden flipped-switched attitude the Elders had towards the end of the book. Suddenly they became entirely different people.
In some ways, this book was bad, and in others it was good. What with the plot's final solution and the fact that Ruby, truly, ended up standing up to not her torturer, Darwin West, but a new secret enemy entirely, contributed to the bad side. However the character dynamics really kept me reading. And for once, I wasn't interested in the development of Ford and Ruby's love (though it did catch my attention at the end), but the development of the Community as the torture and the labor is increased every day.
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