{"id":4353,"date":"2014-08-05T10:00:00","date_gmt":"2014-08-05T15:00:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/booksyalove.com\/?p=4353"},"modified":"2014-08-04T13:17:01","modified_gmt":"2014-08-04T18:17:01","slug":"pawn-by-aimee-carter-book-review-doomed-or-destined-by-the-test","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/booksyalove.com\/?p=4353","title":{"rendered":"Pawn, by Aimee Carter (book review) – doomed or destined by the Test?"},"content":{"rendered":"

\"book<\/a>One chance to rise above poverty,
\none Test<\/a> determines your life,
\nand all the rules are a lie!<\/p>\n

In this future America, the Hart family’s dictatorship is unbreakable, anyone over 60 is sent Elsewhere, and only Kitty’s unique eye color saves her from poverty – at a steep price that’s too dangerous to refuse!<\/p>\n

Read the first chapter of Pawn<\/em>\u00a0 here<\/a>, then find book 1 of the Blackcoat Rebellion series today at your local library<\/a> or independent bookstore<\/a> – Captive<\/em> arrives on November 25th.<\/p>\n

**kmm<\/p>\n

Book info<\/strong>: Pawn (Blackcoat Rebellion, book 1) \/ Aimee Carter. Harlequin Teen, 2013.\u00a0 [author site<\/a>]\u00a0 [publisher site<\/a>]\u00a0 [book trailer<\/a>] Review copy and cover image courtesy of the publisher.<\/p>\n

My book talk<\/strong>: Kitty can trade a lifetime of servitude for wealth and luxury – if she can successfully masquerade as the USA prime minister’s niece and stop the rebellion which Lila began!<\/p>\n

Doomed – dyslexic orphan Kitty Doe just failed the Test and is tattooed as level III, sentenced to menial labor in a city far from her beloved boyfriend Benji.<\/p>\n

Destined – her contract purchased by Prime Minister Hart, her body Masked and remade to replicate his popular niece, even Lila’s mother and fiance help Kitty become the wealthy level VII teen for her adoring public.<\/p>\n

Determined – as Kitty learns more about outspoken Lila’s desire to help common folks, she dares to contact the Blackcoat rebels – but can she risk losing Benji forever?<\/p>\n

First of a trilogy set in a future USA where one Test determines everything and some folks aren’t playing by their own rules. (One of 6,000 books recommended on www.abookandahug.com<\/a>)<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

One chance to rise above poverty, one Test determines your life, and all the rules are a lie! In this future America, the Hart family’s dictatorship is unbreakable, anyone over 60 is sent Elsewhere, and only Kitty’s unique eye color saves her from poverty – at a steep price that’s too dangerous to refuse! Read […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_monsterinsights_skip_tracking":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_active":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_note":"","_monsterinsights_sitenote_category":0,"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[19,68,51],"tags":[90,22,7,4,11,20,5,37,16,18,43,39,49,15,21,66,35,33,190,58,3,6,8,28],"class_list":["post-4353","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-fiction","category-future","category-mystery","tag-abandonment","tag-behavior","tag-beliefs","tag-belonging","tag-communication","tag-conflict","tag-coping","tag-death","tag-determination","tag-family","tag-growing-up","tag-love","tag-memories","tag-relationships","tag-self-image","tag-series","tag-surprises","tag-survival","tag-tbr2013","tag-technology","tag-teens","tag-travel","tag-us-author","tag-villains"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_likes_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/booksyalove.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4353","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/booksyalove.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/booksyalove.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/booksyalove.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/booksyalove.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=4353"}],"version-history":[{"count":8,"href":"https:\/\/booksyalove.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4353\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":4486,"href":"https:\/\/booksyalove.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4353\/revisions\/4486"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/booksyalove.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=4353"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/booksyalove.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=4353"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/booksyalove.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=4353"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}