Week 49 Review: Poster Girl

From Goodreads:

Veronica Roth tells the story of a woman's desperate search for a missing girl after the collapse of the oppressive dystopian regime--and the dark secrets about her family and community she uncovers along the way

WHAT'S RIGHT IS RIGHT.

Sonya Kantor knows this slogan--she lived by it for most of her life. For decades, everyone in the Seattle-Portland megalopolis lived under it, as well as constant surveillance in the form of the Insight, an ocular implant that tracked every word and every action, rewarding or punishing by a rigid moral code set forth by the Delegation.

Then there was a revolution. The Delegation fell. Its most valuable members were locked in the Aperture, a prison on the outskirts of the city. And everyone else, now free from the Insight's monitoring, went on with their lives.

Sonya, former poster girl for the Delegation, has been imprisoned for ten years when an old enemy comes to her with a deal: find a missing girl who was stolen from her parents by the old regime, and earn her freedom. The path Sonya takes to find the child will lead her through an unfamiliar, crooked post-Delegation world where she finds herself digging deeper into the past--and her family's dark secrets--than she ever wanted to.

With razor sharp prose, Poster Girl is a haunting dystopian mystery that explores the expanding role of surveillance on society--an inescapable reality that we welcome all too easily.

My Review:
This was a really great read. I really enjoy Veronica Roth's writing, and while I wish we could've gotten that sequel to Chosen Ones, this was another really great story! I loved getting to know Sonya, and her world. And what a story this was!

In a way, this is a mirror of her first 3 books, the Divergent series. In that book, they're fighting to take down an oppressive regime. In this book, they've done so-and Sonya's family was part of it, so her life has drastically changed since then. I loved the journey that she went on, learning more about her world. About why people rebelled against it in the first place.

There are two big parts of this story. Veronica Roth talked about how she went 6 months without social media while writing this book-and that's a good part of what Insight was. That Insight was deactivated, removed from the populace, well, Sonya used it for so much in her life, as something to confess to, to confide in, and then it was gone. 

The other was the morality of the Delegation, of who got to decide what was good, and what was bad, and how much each act was worth. And having prices on reporting others bad behaviour. There can be some good in that, but there's so much more potential for it to be exploited, for it to go wrong. And it did. Which is why it was taken down, and why Sonya's given this mission to find this girl who was taken from her family. 

I loved how little things tied together, as she learned how the world has changed while she was looking for this little girl. Learning about why someone would have an illegal second child, about the politics of the current day about technology. It came together heartbreakingly well! 

I absolutely loved reading this book, and I can't wait to read more by Veronica Roth! 

Author: Veronica Roth 
Read: December 3rd, 2022
Source: Bought
Reason Why: Sounded really good and I enjoy her writing, and it's a SAC 2022 Book and a WoW Book! 
Publisher: William Morrow & Company
Published: October 18th 2022

5/5 Hearts

5/5 Books

5/5 Stars