![]() The romance is anemic, with Benjy barely mentioned for chapters at a time. ![]() Why, and at what price, Kitty can only guess. It’s not sex he’s after, though: he wants Kitty to impersonate his dead niece. While they wait for Benjy to be tested, Kitty runs away to become a prostitute, only to have her virginity bought by the most powerful man in the country, Prime Minister Daxton Hart. Kitty, raised in a state-mandated group home, is in love with her boyfriend, Benjy, but her test results show she’s a low achiever, and the 17-year-old is assigned a sewer-maintenance job in faraway Denver. ![]() The economy has collapsed, and resources have run out-that’s as much world-building as Carter does, so it’s hard to see how or why the United States has willingly and rapidly transformed from prosperous democracy to micromanaged dictatorship. Carter (the Goddess Test series) tries her hand at near-future dystopia, with mixed results. ![]()
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