Publication:
May
6, 2014
Publisher:
St.
Martin’s Griffin
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Avie Reveare
has the normal life of a privileged teen growing up in L.A., at least as
normal as any girl’s life is these days. After a synthetic hormone in beef
killed fifty million American women ten years ago, only young girls, old
women, men, and boys are left to pick up the pieces. The death threat is
past, but fathers still fear for their daughters’ safety, and the Paternalist
Movement, begun to "protect" young women, is taking over the
choices they make. Like all her friends, Avie still mourns the loss of her
mother, but she’s also dreaming about college and love and what she’ll make
of her life. When her dad "contracts" her to marry a rich, older
man to raise money to save his struggling company, her life suddenly narrows
to two choices: Be trapped in a marriage with a controlling politician, or
run. Her lifelong friend, student revolutionary Yates, urges her to run to
freedom across the border to Canada. As their friendship turns to passion,
the decision to leave becomes harder and harder. Running away is incredibly
dangerous, and it’s possible Avie will never see Yates again. But staying
could mean death. From Catherine Linka comes this romantic,
thought-provoking, and frighteningly real story, A Girl Called Fearless, about fighting for the
most important things in life—freedom and love.
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Taking place years from now in the future in Los Angeles,
Avie Reveare finds herself living in
world where the voice of women, and their ability to make their own choices in
life have been harshly taken away. It almost felt like the women were living in
the 1950’s. Learning how to needle-point in high school, baking, and all the
fun stuff that is supposed to make sure that when your father sells you off to
your potential husband at the highest price they can, you will be an excellent
mindless doormat wife. That seems like what these men are looking for,
young women who will do whatever they are told and who can produce children for
them.
Why would the world be okay with stripping women of their
choices and making them objects instead of equals to men? I think if something
like this were to really happen, an event this huge killing millions and millions
of women, people would want to take drastic action in order to try and correct
the problem. And this is pretty drastic. It doesn’t make complete sense, but in
the world that Avie lives in, it’s her way of life.
Avie didn’t strike me as the strong heroine type during
the beginning of the story. I wasn’t even sure if she had the guts to do
anything. But once her father sells her
two someone in his 30’s when she isn’t even 18 yet, Avie really starts to
contemplate her life and wonder if there is something she can do to escape.
This is where the book began to take off for me. When Avie started to stand up for herself and
take matters into her own hands. There was more to this story than it appeared
to be. There are secret politics brewing, lies, hidden truths, action, and even
a little romance. I enjoyed it much more once the story picked up.
A
Girl Called Fearless is one of those stories that pretty much never
lets up. There is always some plot twist…something happening to keep the
momentum of the story going. I wasn’t sold on everything that happened in the
book, but I enjoyed enough of it to keep reading, and I am happy that I did.
RATING: 3½ out of 5.
**I received this book on behalf of the Publisher in exchange for
nothing but my honest opinion. Thank you**
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