Happy Friday! The weekend is so close my readers and I can’t wait! So to close the week and the this blog tour I have another review for the brilliant The Write Reads. Today’s tour is for a YA sci-fi, dystopian The Unadjusteds by Marisa Noelle. I have literally just finished reading it, so here is my review, but before that here is a little bit more about the book.
The Unadjusteds by Marisa Noelle Published by Write Plan on November 1, 2019
Genres: Sci-Fi, Dystopian
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Sixteen-year-old Silver Melody lives in a world where 80% of the population has modified their DNA. Known as the altereds, those people now possess enhancements like wings, tails, and increased strength or intelligence. Although Silver’s parents created the nanite pill used to deliver these genetic modifications, Silver is proud of her unadjusted state.
However, when the president declares all unadjusteds must take a nanite, Silver has no choice but to flee the city with her father and some friends to prevent the extinction of the unadjusteds.
With Silver’s mother in prison for treason, Silver’s father is the unadjusteds’ only hope at finding a cure. But time is running out as Silver’s father is captured by the president’s almost immortal army. Vicious hellhounds are on Silver’s trail, and her only chance to recover her father involves teaming up with a new group of unlikely friends before all humanity is lost.CAWPILE - 7.86
My Review
Melody Silver is an unadjusted. She lives in a world where President Bear used nanitites, a pill to alter DNA in it’s purest form. It started as a way to cure cancer, or regenerate your health, but then like all science, it got into the wrong hands. President Bear now uses them as part of daily life and if you aren’t an adjusted or altereds as Silver say, then your not worth the time of day. Now the President motions for all unadjusteds over the age of 12 are forced to take a nanites. Silver has a personal connection this this phenomenom. Her parents made those nanites and Bear took them away from and put her on house rest. Now along with a group of allies build a resistance to stop this. To save their family and to stop Bear once and for all.
It’s been a while since I read something I haven’t heard of in comparison to the popular books. Sometimes these books are overshadowed, even I’m to blame that we forget that there are other books out there that that are just as good or even better and I love that these blog tours help promote them for the author. I whizzed through this book. It took me 2 and half days and for me that’s a miracle these days. Ha. But what I loved was that it’s was an easy, fast-paced sci-fi that I haven’t read in a long time. The world building was fascinating, whilst predominately it’s sci-fi/dystopian I felt that was hints of other genres, like fantasy and mythology which I really enjoyed. It added a different texture to a YA dystopian that I haven’t read in a long time.
I really loved the cast of characters in the book, different walks of life, literally. I love this aspect with the altereds, the adjusteds and how you can choose the DNA of something, animal or otherwise to be something unique, different. But some of them have their own stories, including our main character Melody Silver and her band of merrymen. That’s how I envision them. Joe, Matt, Sawyer, Paige, and even Sansei Claus become this resistance group that want to save all those unadjusteds imprisoned by President Bear. I had a soft spot for Joe the bulk. Without giving too much away, there is a slight love-triangle that I honestly haven’t read about in ages. I forgotten how much I love and kind of hate it at the same time.
This is the first book in the series and the sequel has just come out in December of last year. So I most definitely will continue the series to find out what happens next. Whilst I found it wasn’t an a completely original storyline, I enjoyed a lot nonetheless. It was a mash of Hunger Games, Divergent and This Mortal Coil and two of those are my favourite series so I knew I was going to love it.
Thank you to Dave, The Write Reads for sending me a copy in exchange for an honest review.
Great review Emma, I’m so glad you enjoyed this book!