ARC Review: Pawn by Aimee Carter

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ARC Review: Pawn by Aimee Carter

Title: Pawn

Author: Aimee Carter

Publisher: Harlequin Teen

Publication Date: November 26, 2013

Page Count: 347

Where I got it: Publisher via Netgalley

Where you can get it: Amazon

How much: List Price 17.99

Format I read it in: eARC

Challenges: 2014 Netgalley and Edelweiss Reading Challenge.

Description/Blurb:

YOU CAN BE A VII. IF YOU GIVE UP EVERYTHING.

For Kitty Doe, it seems like an easy choice. She can either spend her life as a III in misery, looked down upon by the higher ranks and forced to leave the people she loves, or she can become a VII and join the most powerful family in the country.

If she says yes, Kitty will be Masked—surgically transformed into Lila Hart, the Prime Minister’s niece, who died under mysterious circumstances. As a member of the Hart family, she will be famous. She will be adored. And for the first time, she will matter.

There’s only one catch. She must also stop the rebellion that Lila secretly fostered, the same one that got her killed and one Kitty believes in. Faced with threats, conspiracies and a life that’s not her own, she must decide which path to choose—and learn how to become more than a pawn in a twisted game she’s only beginning to understand.

Pawn by Aimee Carter

My rating: 5 of 5 stars

I am amazed at how much I enjoyed this book. I really had no idea what to expect when I picked it, but I had so many good things about this author, I really wanted to have a chance to read and review this book

What would you do if you just found out your life’s destiny was to clean up crap for the rest of your life? And then, what if someone presented you an opportunity to live a life that was far beyond your wildest dreams?

That is what happens to Kitty Kitty scored a III on her testing. What you don’t realize right away and is just a subtle undertone is that Kitty has dyslexia, and this kept her from being able to do her best on the testing.

This absolutely thrilled me to no end. I have recently stated my concern about there not being enough characters in books geared toward young adults who have to overcome obstacles. So I was ecstatic to see that this main character had a disability and was able to still make a difference in the world.

I fell in love with Kitty and Benjy, and I despised Daxton from the beginning! Knox and Celia I had mixed feelings about, and I still don’t know how I feel about them.

When I found out where and what Elsewhere really was, I was….appalled? Disgusted? Frightened? I am not sure what the right word is. But the reality for me was that, you know what, it could really happen that way if the world were overpopulated, and someone thought they could use that as a platform to advance themselves.

This author has painted a picture of a world that could feasibly be our future. It is ever more possible that it could really end up that way and then, where would we be? Would you want your fate decided by one family of people who controlled everything?

I am so glad I decided to read this one, though because I absolutely loved the story and cannot wait to see what more Aimee Carter has in store for us.

I am anxiously awaiting the next installment now and have added Aimee Carter to my “automatically buy what this person writes” list.

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