The Remedy by Suzanne Young - HIGH

The Remedy (The Program, #3) by Suzanne Young, 401 pages.  Simon Pulse, 2015.  $11.  

Content: Language: R (94 swears; 18 “f”); Mature Content: PG-13; Violence: PG.  

BUYING ADVISORY: HS – OPTIONAL  

AUDIENCE APPEAL: HIGH  

16yo Quinlan McKee is a professional closer, which means that she goes into a home and pretends to be someone she is not in order to help families in their grieving process.  As Quinlan takes on the persona of newly deceased persons, she has a hard time remembering what is real and what is acting.  As she takes on the job to be a girl named Catalina Barnes, Quin feels a special connection to Catalina’s boyfriend and parents, and she depends on her friends Aaron and Deacon to help her remember herself.  

I enjoy this series because the storyline sucks me in, and I can’t wait to find out what happens to the characters.  Although it helps to read the first and second books in the Program series (they go together and involve Sloane and James), this book is a totally different character with a new story and this book has a cliff hanger ending and ties to the forth book The Epidemic.  The swearing is over the top and totally unnecessary which is sad because it moves the book to optional.  The mature content is off page sex and the violence is a punch to the face.  

Reviewer, C. Peterson