The Culling: The Complete Series

By: Ramona Finn

Narrated by: Stacey Glemboski

Length: 25 hrs and 53 mins

Publisher's summary

The Culling

In a solar system where the Authority decides who lives and who dies, only one of their own executioners can stop them.

Glade Io is a trained killer. Marked at a young age as an individual with violent tendencies, she was taken from her family and groomed to be a Datapoint - a biotech-enabled analyst who carries out the culling. She is designed to identify and destroy any potential humans who threaten the colonies: those marked as lawbreakers, unproductive, or sick.

But when she’s kidnapped by rogue colonists known as the Ferrymen, everything Glade thinks she knows about the colonies, and the Authority that runs them collapses into doubt.

Pulled between two opposing sides, and with her family’s lives hanging in the balance, Glade is unsure of who to trust - and time is running out.

The Authority

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.

The Ferrymen

Torn in two directions, Glade must make one fateful choice - for herself and the future of humanity.

Glade Io is a rebel. Having fled with her younger sisters to live among the Ferrymen, she knows there is no going back now. She is committed to the cause of overthrowing the brutal Authority, and she trains her new comrades in the art of combating Datapoints like herself - those tasked with the Ferrymen’s destruction.

Meanwhile, Ferryman leader Kupier longs to travel the stars with Glade, free from constant war, but to do that he believes they must strike the Authority at its heart: the ancestral homeworld of Earth.

Glade is hesitant; she hopes taking out the Datapoints living on the Station will be enough. But when the time comes, Glade faces the specter of killing her former friends in cold blood, and her former mentor Dahn Enceladus tells her that the Authority has eyes and ears within the rebel stronghold.

Now, Glade faces a dilemma: sabotage the Authority from within, or return to fight alongside the Ferrymen, possibly putting her sisters’ lives in danger.

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really great story.

I enjoyed every minute of this trilogy. it was political, emotional, no unnecessary sex every three pages! it is a very pleasant listen.

Great series

I really enjoyed this a lot. The characters seem real. While it does have the typical ‘chosen one’ she’s not also the most beautiful girl anyone has ever seen and she’s not a typical girl either.
I love all the worlds created and the tech.
Narration by Stacey Glemboski was excellent.
I will definitely look for more by this author and narrator.

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Fun YA book

I really enjoyed this series. Narrator was good and it kept me interested start to finish.

Great Series

Great plot awesome story. I love that it is not only entertaining and
imaginative, but clean.

datapoint

datapoints were trained to be unfeeling killers but Glade (the chosen one) started questioning what she was trained to do was truly right. A series worth reading and/or listening to.

very good

has great story. There's a little repetitivness in the story. kid of feels like the writer was repeating things to make the chapter longer. but only a couple of times. other then that was really good

Fantastic. Original

This is the first to third book I have read/listened to by this author and I would like to listen to another series. I’m glad I listened to all three books at once. I would have been barely hanging on wanting to know what happened next, if I had to wait between books. I would listen to these book again.
I love the world created here. The idea of the kids being used to integrate with tech to eliminate the undesirables of society was interesting. Very poignant however is the question of is this right? Is it ok to cull these people, how accurate is the program that chooses who should be culled? A human wrote the program- how altruistic are their motives? The Publisher summary for each book is excellent. ———-
This is the first to third book I have listened to by this narrator ( Stacey Glemboski) and I would definitely listen to another. She provides each character with a distinct voice and I enjoy how she interprets each character’s personality. This is truly a performance not a reading.

There are no explicit sex scenes, excessive violence, or swearing. ??? Definitely appropriate for teens

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So fun! Would love to see this made into a movie!

As I was listening to this wonderful sci-fi dystopian series by Ramona Finn, I kept imagining what dark-haired beauty will play Glade Io, who will play the other robotic, emotionless Data Points, and how they'll make the iridescent tech embedded in their faces and arms. Who will play Kupier, the dashing leader of the rebel Ferrymen who fights against The Authority - the governmental system being ruled by a sociopath without morals. Who will play Jan Ernst Haven, the sociopathic leader of The Authority, and who will play Dahn, his protoge with a tiny sliver of real actual heart.
I'm not a teen. I'm a 45-yr-old professional but great teen dystopians are my cake and this series is FABULOUS. The sci fi aspect ratchets up and adds a cool twist to the dystopian. This series is safe for teens and pre-teens. It won't give them nightmares, but it's still exciting and the characters are layered and complex enough for an adult to really appreciate. I'm not quite finished yet, but I keep checking to see how much is left because I don't want it to ever end. I'm so in love with these characters.
The narrator, Stacey Glemboski, is WONDERFUL!! She's bringing everyone to life. I'm excited to listen to more books narrated by her and I will definitely seek out more Ramona Finn stories are this.
I was fortunate enough to be picked to provide an honest review for this wonderful audiobook.

Great book!

I am a huge dystopian fan and this book was a hidden gem. The characters were well developed and included a great love story. As another reviewer mentioned, I think the ending was rushed. There could easily have been a whole other book. I would have liked more from Kupier's perspective but overall it was great.

One plot hole I found was logistically how was Dawn able to comm Glade when he arrived outside of Charon and kidnapped her? Did he hack into their network? This was never explained and seemed to be an oversight in my opinion.

very well written

this was an awesome story. I'm usually not into outer space stories but this one grabbed me from beginning to end. the narration was great. highly recommend.