{"id":8943,"date":"2017-08-19T10:40:00","date_gmt":"2017-08-19T15:40:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/booksyalove.com\/?p=8943"},"modified":"2017-08-19T10:42:00","modified_gmt":"2017-08-19T15:42:00","slug":"they-need-pollution-escape-want-a-better-life-by-cindy-pon-book-review","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/booksyalove.com\/?p=8943","title":{"rendered":"They need pollution-escape, WANT a better life, by Cindy Pon (book review)"},"content":{"rendered":"

\"bookPollution<\/a> haze blankets future Taipei,
\nRich wear super-filter-suits,
\nHave-nots just die – why must they?<\/p>\n

No brakes on corporate villainy, no chance of escaping poverty, no wonder Zhou’s assembled-family of friends will risk everything to take down Jin Corporation (even his heart…).<\/p>\n

Read the beginning of Want<\/em> here<\/a>, courtesy of the publisher, then go to your local library<\/a> or independent bookstore<\/a> for this June 2017 release. <\/p>\n

Earlier this month in Long Beach, Cindy told me that she is working on the sequel!<\/p>\n

What are you doing to make the world better for all?
\n**kmm<\/p>\n

Book info<\/strong>:\u00a0Want (Want. book 1) \/ Cindy Pon. Simon Pulse, 2017. [author site<\/a>]\u00a0 [publisher site<\/a>]\u00a0 Review copy and cover image courtesy of the publisher.<\/p>\n

My book talk<\/strong>: To be in Taiwan now means blue sky is ancient history and humanity is one virus away from disaster.
\nTo be ‘mei’ – a have-not – means dying early from pollution and preventable diseases.
\nTo be ‘you’ – privileged, rich – means life-protecting suits, luxury, and ease.<\/p>\n

The ransom money will pay for the tech that ‘mei’ Zhou and friends need to infiltrate and destroy the corrupt Jin Corporation.
\nThe sleep-spell drug will ensure that ‘you’ Daiyu will forget that Zhou kidnapped her, brought her to his garden hideout.
\nThen Zhou masquerading as ‘you’ Jason must pretend that he and Daiyu have never met, ignore their growing attraction, get what he needs to blow apart her father’s suit-technology empire.<\/p>\n

Everyone in Jason’s team has lost loved ones due to Jin’s greed which keeps pollution levels high and the cost of life-saving drugs even higher.
\nAll are willing to risk death to give the ‘mei’ majority opportunities for a better life.
\nJust one chance for 18 year old Jason to get past the best tech in the world, just one… <\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

Pollution haze blankets future Taipei, Rich wear super-filter-suits, Have-nots just die – why must they? No brakes on corporate villainy, no chance of escaping poverty, no wonder Zhou’s assembled-family of friends will risk everything to take down Jin Corporation (even his heart…). Read the beginning of Want here, courtesy of the publisher, then go to […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":8949,"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_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_feature_clip_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false},"categories":[237,19,68],"tags":[90,22,7,11,20,5,70,37,16,18,40,44,43,71,39,27,49,184,15,21,66,35,33,306,58,3,8,28],"class_list":["post-8943","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-diverse-books","category-fiction","category-future","tag-abandonment","tag-behavior","tag-beliefs","tag-communication","tag-conflict","tag-coping","tag-crime","tag-death","tag-determination","tag-family","tag-fathers","tag-friendship","tag-growing-up","tag-kidnapping","tag-love","tag-medical","tag-memories","tag-mothers","tag-relationships","tag-self-image","tag-series","tag-surprises","tag-survival","tag-taiwan","tag-technology","tag-teens","tag-us-author","tag-villains"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/booksyalove.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/08\/want-9781481489225_hr.jpg?fit=1400%2C2106&ssl=1","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_likes_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/booksyalove.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/8943","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=8943"}],"version-history":[{"count":7,"href":"https:\/\/booksyalove.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/8943\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":8952,"href":"https:\/\/booksyalove.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/8943\/revisions\/8952"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/booksyalove.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/media\/8949"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/booksyalove.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=8943"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/booksyalove.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=8943"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/booksyalove.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=8943"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}