The Treatment by Suzanne Young - HIGH

The Treatment (The Program, #2) by Suzanne Young, 344 pages.  Simon Pulse, 2014.  $12.  

Content: Language: R (71 swears; 22 “f”); Mature Content: PG-13; Violence: PG-13. 

BUYING ADVISORY: HS – OPTIONAL  

AUDIENCE APPEAL: HIGH 

Sloane and James are living with rebels who have left the Program and are on the run, including Michael who loves Sloane.  Sloane has a pill that is called the Treatment that would give her all her memories back, but she only has one pill and can’t imagine taking it without having one to give to James.  But everyone seems to want access to the pill because there are those who regret creating the Program and think they should make more Treatment pills, Sloane and James must figure out who they can trust.  

This series is creepy and intense.  The government-controlled Program is a disturbingly aggressive Big Brother and I found myself caught up in Sloane ’s story.  The content includes off-page sex, references to rape, sexual assault, stabbing and suicides.  

Reviewer, C. Peterson