I wasn’t to sure if I was going to
like Aimee Carter’s Blackcoat Rebellion series. I had read her Goddess
Test series, and each book got worse and worse. When Pawn came out I
wasn’t sure if I would end up reading it, but I am so glad I did.
Pawn takes place in a
futuristic America. After international and civil wars had destroyed the
economy, which had never fully recovered from the Recession in the early
twenty-first century the government and the status of people changed. The
government has set up a system based on Merit, they take care of everyone based
on their level. Levels are from I-VII, and are determined after an individual
has completed school at the age of seventeen. Level I is cast out into the
waste land; II and III get the menial jobs of janitor, sewage specialist, house
cleaner, etc; IV and V are the good jobs in banking, education, low level
government, and only 3% of the population makes the cut. Level VI tends to be
high ranking officials, right hand man to the elite political family, the top
of the top. Level VII is reserved for the Hart family, the family that control
everything.
While there are elections every few
years, the only name on the ballot year after year is the head of the Hart
family. They continue to promise that the system is working, and that because
of the test is it the most fair way to have society move forward.
Kitty Doe was a second born, put
into the foster system and dreamed of a life as a IV or V, but after the test
she receives a III. Rather than face life as a poor sewage specialist, Kitty
joins her childhood friend in a prostitution house. Kitty hopes to make money
for the next month until her boyfriend takes the test (which she is sure he’ll
score a IV or higher on), and marries her making null and void her III.
Her first night in the club, she is
the main attraction. Her virginity up for the highest bidder. A man in the back
bids the highest, higher than any other girl has gone for, only he’s not after
her body. Once alone, the Hart family reveals itself, promising that they can
make her a VII, but if she refuses they will kill her. Kitty accepts, after all
what could be so bad about being a VII?
Kitty wakes up two weeks later,
only she is no longer Kitty. The Hart family has spent absorbent amounts of
money to turn her into Lila Hart, the prime ministers niece. Lila died under
semi-mysterious circumstances, but more importantly the Hart family doesn’t want
anyone to question the perfect hold they have on the community, and Lila had
been causing problems. The Prime Minister and the rest of the Hart family want
Lila to fix all the problems that Lila had been stirring up.
Lila had been involved with the Blackcoats,
an underground rebellion that has been causing problems for the government and
blowing up buildings. But Kitty is in over her head, she hates being used by
the Harts, but it the longer she plays the part of Lila the more she realizes
that the Blackcoat rebellion is bigger than anyone thought, an
d the Hart family
is tangled up in it, in ways no one could ever imagine.
I loved this book, and am so glad
that I gave it a shot even after how disappointed I was in her previous work.
The characters were fun, and the twists and turns in the novel were spectacular.
I cannot wait for the next book!
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