Pawn by Aimee Carter
Carter, Aimee. Pawn. Don Mills, Ont: Harlequin Teen, 2013. Print. Formats available: hardcover, paperback, ebook, audiobook. Paperback $9.99. Kindle $4.99.
Synopsis:
If you could trade everything you’ve ever known and loved for a better place in society, would you? After Kitty gets a measly 3 on her placement test, guaranteeing her a miserable, difficult, and dangerous life, she is offered this choice. She can take a dead girl’s place as a 7. All she needs to do is say goodbye to the world she’s known and the people she loves. Kitty makes the deal, only to find out it comes with serious strings attached. Now she’s thrown into an even more dangerous life than being a 3 would have been. Her new “family” is secretive, conniving, and murderous. And they expect her to stop the rebellion that her predecessor started.
Kitt is about to find herself no more than a pawn in their games.
Booktalk:
Themes include: Betrayal, lies, privilege, consequences, choice, love, and sacrifice.
My Thoughts: Pawn has many similarities to the popular The Selection series by Kiera Cass, with the dystopian society with a numbered caste system. It also features something of a love triangle dynamic, when Kitty escapes life as a 3, leaving her boyfriend behind, and meets a new boy in her new life as a 7. There is also a Hunger Games feel to the story as Kitty is pressured into being a Pawn for those around her. The story never quite lives up to its potential, lacking the kind of emotional intensity and immediacy that other popular dystopian tales have managed, and while Kitty is a character we can all root for, the secondary characters never seem to be fully realized. There is plenty of intrigue and plot twists to keep the reader guessing at what will happen next, and with a few big shockers along the way, though, that many fans of the Dystopian genre will eagerly dive into the next installment in this series.
Liked it? Loved it? Gotta have more of it?
The next book in the The Blackcoat Rebellion is Captive.
- If you like this book, I’d personally also recommend:
- The Selection Series by Kiera Cass.
Extras:
- Locate Pawn at your local library through Worldcat.org.
- Learn more about The Blackcoat Rebellion at Aimee’s website.
About the Author: Aimee Carter is the author of The Blackcoat Rebellion, as well as other books.
- Learn more about Aimee Carter and her books at her blog.
- Find Aimee on Facebook
- and on twitter @aimee_carter
Citation & Credits
Book cover image: Courtesy of Amazon.com.
Book Talk: Kelsey Bogan. 2015. All rights reserved.
Harlequinn Books. “Pawn by Aimee Carter (Book Trailer).” Online video clip. YouTube.com. 25 Nov 2013. Web. 01 Aug 2015.
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