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While slightly distempered at the idea that the author completely ripped the characters, themes and plot of Hawthorne's Scarlet Letter, I am fascinated with a future society controlled primarily by religion and stigma. I like the character and her 'melachromed' issues. It deals with the idea of social outcasting, stereotyping and not knowing the shoes of a person until you have walked in them. Aidan Dale is a very superficial and weak character who should play a more dominant role in the story r
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Perhaps one of the best books of 2011, When She Woke is an adult-dystopian gem. Good for those who like Margaret Atwood or Diamant's Red Tent, Jordan has crafted a version of the Scarlett Letter in which the government and the church are fused together and "criminals" carry out their sentence as chromes (people with dyed skin.) Their colors identify the crime to all the world, with red being the most severe. Hannah is a red because she committed the unspeakable crime of having an abortion. She i
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