The Authority

The Culling Trilogy, Book 2

De: Ramona Finn

Narrado por: Stacey Glemboski

When everything she’s ever known is a lie, one young woman must make a choice that could change the course of history.

Glade Io is torn between two worlds. She’s a trained killing machine - selected by the ruthless Authority to be a Datapoint, a tech-enabled agent of the state who eliminates threats to the human colonies throughout the solar system in the Culling. But her time among rogue colonists called the Ferrymen has convinced her that The Authority has far more sinister plans in store, and all the justifications they fed to her are lies. Vowing to help the rebels fight The Authority from the inside, Glade must sabotage a captured Ferryman ship that The Authority is planning to use to attack the Ferrymen stronghold.

Though Glade is drawn to the brave leader of the Ferrymen, Kupier, she has older loyalties as well. Her friend and mentor Dahn Enceladus is charismatic and ambitious, but although Glade cares for him, she can no longer trust him. Her younger sisters are also in danger of facing Datapoint testing, and now she’s being forced into an upgrade she cannot refuse. But help is about to arrive in an unlikely form: a ghost from her distant past.

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Exciting adventure, impossible choices

At each turn you knew something was going to go wrong, but you weren't sure what. The story is full of relationships fraught with the challenge of restricted abilities to feel emotions, big brother watching and ever-human feelings of inadequacy and egotism compounded by underground political movements shrouded in secrecy and constant challenges of figuring out who to trust, who's the good guys, who's the bad or is everyone a bit of both..for much of the story you'll be guessing and there's always a sense of dread at what lies ahead has you on the edge of your seat.
The story is believable and keeps you thinking 'I can see this being our future'. There's plenty of intriguing tech, politics of the future and characters that you want to reach into the book and strangle!
I really enjoyed reading this - think I'll be buying others in the series
I was given a copy in exchange for an honest review - if you like dystopian sci-fi future, I think you'll be very happy with this one

The Authority Strikes Back

The story is getting more thrilling and closer to a climax. Not much of a fan of the love triangle with Dom, but I do feel sorry for him. The part of the mother was irritating, but it added many needed details. Really liked the super tech, 'til it went rouge. The next book will bring the final battle of the ferrymen against the authority, get wait!
I was given this free review copy audiobook at my request and have voluntarily left this review.

Loving the series

Love all the twists and turns in this series. Second books are usually not my fave and I usually feel like they are just filled with fluff but this one kept me dying to know what was going to happen next! Love it!

OMG!!!!!

I freakin love this series! So much happened in this book I wouldn’t even know how to comment on it all. So I’ll just say this, this is an amazing serious you need to have in your life. Glade kicks ass and takes names. Dahn plays an important role in this book and Haven is as creepy as ever. I can’t wait for the next book.

When what's easy and what's right are worlds apart

This book picks up soon after book one, you should probably read book one first, you don't have to, but this book will make more sense if you do.

I couldn't help but feel for Glade, she's been put in a situation that seems impossible. Questioning everything that she's been told there's no easy way out, and that's what makes this book so good. Glade has to overcome her feelings and the people trying to control her.

There's lots going on in this book and as it progresses so many things start to make sense while others show that the weren't what they first seemed. Plenty of twists here and lots of action.

I'm really enjoying this world, it's detailed and the people seem so real, I cant wait to find out what happens in the next book.

The narration is excellent, the character voices are brilliant and at times had me forgetting that I was listening to only one person. The delivery was spot on!

I received a free copy of this book from the author and/or narrator and/or publisher and I voluntarily wrote this honest review.

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