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In a dystopian near-future, overpopulation has led to a government dedicated to reducing citizen numbers. Suicide is legalised, food is rationed, and reproduction forbidden without permission.
Cassie O’Neil broke the law, she had sex before marriage. She is sentenced to die on the game show, The Ultimate Choice, but when a contestant collapses Cassie takes her chance and runs. Staying alive is hard with no ration card or place to hide. But she is a woman who refuses to die.
Shaun Horrigan, AMAZON VINE VOICE and TOP 500 REVIEWER, said of The Ultimate Choice: Set in a near future dystopian vision of England where population growth has run out of control, people are starving and food is rationed, this is a very thought provoking novel. Suicide is legalised and in fact encouraged, police patrols search for homeless people at night and get paid a bonus based on how many they euthanise, only those licensed to do so can have children and government propaganda keeps everyone naïve and ignorant of the real scale of the problems.
This is a fast moving full length story that gripped me from the beginning – the “game show” in which Cassie was forced to participate was so well written that it really did seem horrifically and terrifyingly real. The Government’s solution to overpopulation is also totally believable in a worst nightmare kind of way!
Overall: 4 stars – This is a dark and convincing story that is up there with some of the better self published novels I have read. Download the sample and give it a try – I will be surprised if you don’t go on to buy the book! (Review excerpt from UK edition.)
Dena M Martin, AMAZON VINE VOICE, said of The Ultimate Choice: This is a unique take on a Dystopian Future. Her take on near-future London is gray and bleak, but has an underlying current of humor and irony. It’s a well thought out world and I enjoyed reading this. I’ll simply say that reading Lisa Hinsley’s work has caused me to think twice about summarily dismissing self-published Kindle authors. (Review excerpt from US edition.)In a dystopian near-future, overpopulation has led to a government dedicated to reducing citizen numbers. Suicide is legalised, food is rationed, and reproduction forbidden without permission.
Cassie O’Neil broke the law, she had sex before marriage. She is sentenced to die on the game show, The Ultimate Choice, but when a contestant collapses Cassie takes her chance and runs. Staying alive is hard with no ration card or place to hide. But she is a woman who refuses to die.
Shaun Horrigan, AMAZON VINE VOICE and TOP 500 REVIEWER, said of The Ultimate Choice: Set in a near future dystopian vision of England where population growth has run out of control, people are starving and food is rationed, this is a very thought provoking novel. Suicide is legalised and in fact encouraged, police patrols search for homeless people at night and get paid a bonus based on how many they euthanise, only those licensed to do so can have children and government propaganda keeps everyone naïve and ignorant of the real scale of the problems.
This is a fast moving full length story that gripped me from the beginning – the “game show” in which Cassie was forced to participate was so well written that it really did seem horrifically and terrifyingly real. The Government’s solution to overpopulation is also totally believable in a worst nightmare kind of way!
Overall: 4 stars – This is a dark and convincing story that is up there with some of the better self published novels I have read. Download the sample and give it a try – I will be surprised if you don’t go on to buy the book! (Review excerpt from UK edition.)
Dena M Martin, AMAZON VINE VOICE, said of The Ultimate Choice: This is a unique take on a Dystopian Future. Her take on near-future London is gray and bleak, but has an underlying current of humor and irony. It’s a well thought out world and I enjoyed reading this. I’ll simply say that reading Lisa Hinsley’s work has caused me to think twice about summarily dismissing self-published Kindle authors. (Review excerpt from US edition.)
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Dystopia Pleasure,
I have read a few dystopian novels over the years, Margaret Atwood’s The Handmaids Tale and George Orwell’s, 1984 among my favourites. The opening scenes of this novel however are reminiscent of a film called The Running Man, an Arnold Schwarzenegger film from the 80′s, but it didn’t take long to see this was something quite different.
We meet Cassie O’Neil on the game show The Ultimate Choice. She has had a child in a time when the world is overpopulated and has made the unenviable but expected choice to give up her life for her son Jack.
Of cause if things ended there we would have no story so Cassie sees her chance to escape and takes it. On her journey to a better life, all the while dreaming of Jack, a life and son she will never know, we see a world starving, a controlled media and rebels holding out hope they can have a family on their own terms.
Throughout Cassie’s journey I was right there with her, afraid of assault, cold, hungry, tired, hopeful. There were times I was infuriated by her innocence while in such a bleak landscape, but that’s what happens when you are drawn in and want to protect this fragile yet resilient character that you have come to care for.
This is not a feel good story and it does ask and bravely answer the ultimate question. You will have to read the book to find out what that question is.
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|A surprisingly good read!,
Let me start by saying that I don’t generally read self-published books and since I don’t see any publisher’s info, I’m making the assumption that this is one. If not, I apologize.
The author posted a link on one of the Kindle forums along with a brief description and, since I liked the plot summary, I downloaded the sample.
In spite of the fact that it was self-published and the fact that I did NOT like the cover art, I was pleasantly surprised.
This is a unique take on a Dystopian Future. I think the author’s plot summary stands for itself, so I won’t repeat it here.
Her take on near-future London is gray and bleak, but has an underlying current of humor and irony. It’s a well thought out world and I enjoyed reading this.
I’ll simply say that reading Lisa Hinsley’s work has caused me to think twice about summarily dismissing the 99 cent self-published Kindle authors.
I still hate the cover (Sorry, but it has Nothing to do with the book!) and the book can use a little tightening here and there, but I’m glad to have discovered this one.
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