I’ve never read Roth’s work. That’s how I originally began this review, Bit then I checked and sure enough, I did. I read her amazon short Ark and found it…well, apparently forgettable.
Roth is the author I mostly associate with YA, which I don’t read and don’t understand how any adult does, but at any rate, her adult debut novel intrigued me. And then promptly blew me away. Not every author can transition so smoothly, and sure enough, Poster Girl’s protagonist’s most crucial time (until the events of the story unfold) is when she was sixteen and seventeen, but this is an adult novel through and through and an exceptional one at that. Once upon a time, Sonya Kantor was the eponymous poster girl for Delegation regime. Then the regime collapsed. Now, Sonya, the sole survivor of her family, is locked up in a large self-governed prison system Aperture along with other followers of the old regime, while a new regime reigns supreme. Most people locked up at kids are being released, but Sonya is just above the age cut off, and therefore is likely to stay put, getting by in a bleak world of prosecuted has-beens, performing small repairs to stay sane and useful. And then, she is given a chance. Find a young girl reassigned to another family by the old regime and all will eb forgiven. And so, she begins her investigation, pulling various threads until the entire fabric of all she’d ever known about the world and her family unravels. So yeah, this book gets a wow from me. A solid, vividly rendered dystopian character-driven fiction loaded with sustained suspense and clever plot twists until the very end. Very well done. The sort of book you can’t put down. In fact, the sort of book I stayed up late into the night to finish. It just has that certain magnetic quality. Riveting. And Sonya is a perfect protagonist for a world divided by ideology mixed with technology, a social psychology experiment of a world at every turn, under every regime. Loved this book. Recommended.
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