Flawed

Reviewed by: Mary Lehmer - Freeport Community Library, Freeport, Southern Maine Library District

Review Date: August 10, 2015

Review

This is about a society that punishes people by actually branding them with a hot iron if they are flawed. Flawed I doesn't mean stealing or killing someone, it's when you do something "society" (which is really the powerful Guild/ court) doesn't believe in- like taking your sick child to a better hospital, telling a lie about something, questioning laws or just helping someone that is Flawed.

This is not a fast paced book. It takes it time getting the point across about what being flawed means, but that is perfect because it gives you a chance to think about it yourself. Celestine, the main character was decent, but not super believable. It was great how she stood up for what she believed in, not because she planned to do something to help the Flawed or wanted anything out of that, but because it was the right thing to do. But I had a hard time with her obsession with the guy in the cell next to her- she hardly knew him but she still wanted him to approve of her and seemed more to care more about what he thought than what her own family thought. Still, this is a very interesting dystopian novel that will keep you reading until the end.

Overall Book Score: very good