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The Declaration (The Declaration, #1)

Gemma Malley

Start date: December 1, 2018

Finish date: December 31, 2018

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This review has been hidden because it contains spoilers. To view it, click here. "My name is Anna.
My name is Anna and I shouldn't be here. I shouldn't exist.
But I do."
This story starts of with a spin, introducing the reader to Anna's life as a Surplus. She is an obedient girl, but has just started keeping a diary. Later on in the book, a new main character, Peter, is moved to Anna's Surplus hall, and he seems to know her real name: Anna Covey. Anna gets angry with him and tells him that her name is 'Surplus Anna' and not Anna Covey. Peter seems upset, but keeps trying to mak "My name is Anna.
My name is Anna and I shouldn't be here. I shouldn't exist.
But I do."
This story starts of with a spin, introducing the reader to Anna's life as a Surplus. She is an obedient girl, but has just started keeping a diary. Later on in the book, a new main character, Peter, is moved to Anna's Surplus hall, and he seems to know her real name: Anna Covey. Anna gets angry with him and tells him that her name is 'Surplus Anna' and not Anna Covey. Peter seems upset, but keeps trying to make friends with Anna. Anna keeps shunning him, and he finally gets so annoyed he bursts out that he only went to this Surplus hall to get Anna out. Anna starts to be a little convinced, but not until Peter is taken away to be slaughtered and she hears Miss Pincent (the owner of this Surplus hall) who Anna has tried to live up to, saying nasty things about her. Suddenly, Anna is completely on Peter's side.
Eventually, Anna ends up getting thrown in a cell, too. She and Peter make there escape.
Another girl, Sheila, who claims that her parents didn't take longevity drugs, and she is a Legal, not a Surplus, is one of Anna's sort-of friends and is furious when Anna doesn't take Sheila with her when running away. She stelas Anna's diary, and after they (Anna and Peter) are gone, reveals it to Miss Pincent, so she (Miss Pincent) will have more trust in her, and Anna and Peter's hiding place will be revealed.
Meanwhile, Anna goes to one of the people she liked and worked for to hide. This woman (Julia Sharpe) helps hide them, and sends them on their way to Anna's parents. When they get there, though, they are tracked down by Miss Pincent and catchers (people who's job is to catch Surpluses), with the help of Sheila. Anna's parents have just had a baby, called Ben, and when the catchers come, they sacrifice their lives for Anna and Ben to live. They say sorry to Peter, who is upset, and just when the catchers are about to take Peter away, it is revealed that a long time ago, Miss Pincent had a baby with a man who was involve with law. They did everything they could, and, eventually the baby was announced Legal. Then they found out that the man had accidentally had a baby with someone else. So the baby is a Surplus. Miss Pincent tells to man to shoot the baby, as she does not want a Surplus child, and he pretends to, instead dropping it on Anna's parents's doorstep. So Peter is actually Miss Pincent's baby! Somehow, when trying to find Peter to slaughter him, she finds this out, and does what Anna's parents do, except, instead if shooting herself, she shoot the man. So Peter is legal too now!
The story ends with a sneak peak into the next book in the series: The Resistance. I would recommend this to everyone! ...more

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