This book is fantastic. It’s a fascinating and excellent new addition to the utopian/dystopian literary canon. 

In good dystopian fiction, the world seems like a utopia or is meant to be a utopia but turns out to have something wrong with it. Often, fixing it means overturning the whole new society completely. In this case, it’s less about changing the whole system again—the revolution already happened and was successful—and more about finding the cracks in the new framework. 

I wouldn’t have minded a longer look at this world, but I think that this book set out to tell a very specific story and then did it. I’m excited for the prequel, which I think is going to cover the actual revolution.

Anyway, maybe my favorite thing was the look at the ways that adults ignore children and invalidate their real problems in an attempt to protect them. 

There were a lot of other things I liked, but overall, I just think that anyone who’s interested in this sort of book should read it.