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Breeders (Breeders Trilogy, #1)

Ashley Quigley

Start date: July 29, 2014

Finish date: July 30, 2014

Why we're reading this: Ashley Quigley graciously released this book for free during the first week of its release. This book is …more
[close] Ashley Quigley graciously released this book for free during the first week of its release. This book is set in a dystopian future (which will never not be cool) and may have a promising plot.

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Jul 30, 2014 Terrence rated it liked it

Breeders was an enjoyable read for me, somewhat more so because I recently took a high-school biology class and understood a bit about genes!

The setting is certainly interesting, a not so bad dystopian future where life is actually pretty swell as long as you follow regulations. By carefully planning out how people reproduce, this government creates idealistic "superior" people, which is a pretty cool concept.

However, the setting is really the one thing that kept me interested in this book. Othe Breeders was an enjoyable read for me, somewhat more so because I recently took a high-school biology class and understood a bit about genes!

The setting is certainly interesting, a not so bad dystopian future where life is actually pretty swell as long as you follow regulations. By carefully planning out how people reproduce, this government creates idealistic "superior" people, which is a pretty cool concept.

However, the setting is really the one thing that kept me interested in this book. Otherwise, the characters are pretty bland. The main character is a twenty-year-old young lady (who seems to have the mentality of a young teen) that lives a happy life with a happy family. Then she's torn away from that happy family, and then she's sad. Unfortunately, that mostly sums up the story. There's very minor character development, and the actual plot doesn't make much sense. I'll briefly explain why I think this is in the spoiler below.

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To sum it up, I feel this story feels pretty disorienting, but as it's only a hundred or two page book (had trouble telling, was reading Breeders electronically) and as it is clearly stated as being part of an upcoming trilogy, perhaps the next few books will give a clearer sense of what direction the story is going in. A society with controlled breeding is a very cool concept, and a further elaboration would be awesome. Until then, I will see the first book of this series as an ever so slightly updated version of Logan's Run. ...more

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