When she Woke

When She Woke by Hillary Jordan

My rating: 5 of 5 stars


This was a pure good read with a slight hint of The Hunger Games. I gobbled it up. The premise is some undetermined date in the future when women are penalized when having abortions by being injected with a virus that turns their skin red. They become "Reds," which means to the world that they killed a baby. This is a serious crime in a time when the U.S. population has been greatly reduced by the "scourge," a sexually transmitted disease that renders females fertile (if it doesn't kill them).

The father of the aborted fetus is a handsome and charismatic preacher who actually has a backbone, eventually.

READ IT!!!

HALLIE: I started and finished this book all in one day! It completely sucks you in and the main character is such a great heroine! Standing up for her aborted fetus's father because it would ruin his life to give his name, gaining extra punishment years for that fact and then discovering that a man's love isn't really all it's cracked up to be. The book goes from incredibly strong and heartwrenching scenes one after another that just makes you think how is this girl EVER going to make it?!? but make it she does and I would hope that a sequel would be written! def read it.



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