ABANDONED. YA? Dystopian story about a society split into colours

[SamSpayedPI]

Ash: A Destined Novel for Celine's trackable link.

It looks like it wasn't published until 2015, however, which was actually after Sheryl's thread was created.

[David]

Saga (Epic #2) by Conor Kostick. Published 2012 2006.

From TvTropes: "In the virtual universe of Saga, society is ordered in seven ranked color tiers — Red, Orange, Yellow, Green, Blue, Indigo and Violet, in increasing order of status. Each citizen is issued a card of their rank's color, and the color of your card determines what stores and homes you have access to, where you are and aren't allowed to go and so on. Most of the world's population is Red and lives in poverty, and only the highest elite is Violet."

Hope that Sheryl can confirm or deny, but hasn't been active since April 2020

Edit: oh, never mind, I apparently missed it being read around 2000s, so it is way older to be the requested book

Edit2: My mistake! First published in 2006, which is in the range.

[Kris]

No response, moving to Abandoned folder.

Sheryl (OP) was last active on the site in April 2020.

[Bonnie_Rae]

I have been trying to look for this book as well. I looked up the different book suggestions and none of them fit. Here is what I remember:

Published in the early 2000s. Anything past 2010 won't fit.

This book was part of a duology (I think) - the first book was the set-up to society being divided into blue (best), yellow (mid), and red (the worst). The second book was set long after the events of the first book.

The first book is a story within a story - someone finds an abandoned notebook/journal in a destroyed war zone. The narrator of the notebook is a young teen girl who starts out writing "fluff" - stuff about school, cute boys, etc. She has a crush on a guy and even has a sort of "date" with him (I think it involved a hot tub at one point?) until he reveals himself to be a massive jerk and she tore out pages of her notebook that were about him.

Society is divided into the colors mentioned above, and the dad is a blue (I think?) but his wife and children - including the notebook's narrator - is red and he pulls away from them, disgusted.

There were science fiction elements to this book, including space travel.

There is also a President who is pushing this color/status division and his face is always on TV, sowing up further division that the notebook narrator loathes.

The story goes back and forth between the contents of the notebook (written by the young girl) and the person (I think it was a guy) who found the notebook

Notebook kind of just ends, and the person who found it is desperate to find out what happened to the writer.

The notebook writer has an old nana/granny figure she talks to, who likes to sit outside on a plastic chair.

Things spiral out of control and soon the family (minus the dad) is heavily implied to be murdered or shunted into a concentration camp. The person who found the notebook goes to the wreckage site (where he originally found it, I think) and asks a young girl who has been tasked to clean up the debris who were the people who lived here and she says she doesn't know.

It is not:
- Divergent
- Red Rising by Pierce Brown
- When She Woke by Hillary Jordan
- Shades of Grey by Jasper Fforde
- The Seventh Tower series by Garth Nix
- The Wind Singer
- Matched
- anything by Lois Lowry
- Divided Kingdom by Rupert Thomson

[Kris]

Bonnie_Rae wrote: "I have been trying to look for this book as well. I looked up the different book suggestions and none of them fit. Here is what I remember:

Published in the early 2000s. Anything past 2010 won't f..."


Bonnie_Rae, please create a new thread for your request. Here's a link to get started - https://www.goodreads.com/topic/show/...