Language: R (50 swears 4 'f'); Mature Content: R (underage drinking, implied gang rape, drug use, implied rape, touching genitalia.) Violence: PG-13 (homemade bomb description, missing girls, death by poisoning)
BUYING ADVISORY: HS - OPTIONAL
AUDIENCE APPEAL: AVERAGE
Stella is a 17yo teenager living in New America with her mother, father, sister 7yo Shea, and 60 year old Sister Helen, the family chaperone. When Sister Helen collapses and dies, after giving Stella a pendant and saying the word Angel, Stella is distraught. Stella knows that she needs to stay pure so she’ll be eligible to marry soon, since girls don’t have many options besides becoming a wife and having children. She searches for reasons to continue to live at home but doesn’t find much that keeps her happy. When Stella discovers a way to get out of her situation, can she trust it or will her plan implode and make her life worse?
The author repeats the concept of having to be pure for marriage as though readers won’t understand the first few times it’s mentioned. Dystopian novel that didn’t really pull my interest. Bonita is Black, Mateo is Latino and Stella is white.
LynnDell Watson, Delta High School Librarian
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