A Girl Called Fearless (A Girl Called Fearless #1) by Catherine Linka--Starting October 19th, 2015

[Betwixt the]

An Indie Next Pick!

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.

Feel free to join Tati and I on this read!

[C.R.]

Can I join this?

[C.R.]

(view spoiler)[ Are you kidding me, no college to better yourself as a brand, just go pop out babies to help save our species. I understand but women are forced to go back to being stay homes moms and that bothers me. (hide spoiler)]

[C.R.]

I hate this world in the books.

(view spoiler)[ Fathers protecting their daughters virginity's to sell them to the highest bidder. It's disgusting. Parts like this in the book, frustrates and infuriates me to the core. They are basically making women objects of property again. That aggravates me. (hide spoiler)]

[C.R.]

Now I'm bothered by no explanation.

(view spoiler)[ This book does not go into character analysis of how females would truly react to being made dismissive. I believe the feminists of our world would fight back. Rape would happen to these young girls being sold if they did not give in to being impregnated. Ether way to me they're being raped on a level called, forced consent because now they have a duty and no ones going to save them because its spousal rape. (hide spoiler)]

I can't enjoy the plot because all of this bothers me so much.

[C.R.]

I'm finished the book and all I can think is how horrible men are in this book. I actually have more faith in men then this book seemed to let. This story was OK but I didn't enjoy it at all. I think it was unrealistic that society would just bend over for this law to be allowed to pass.