Title: Pawn
Series: The Blackcoat Rebellion, #1
Author: Aimée Carter
Publisher: Harlequin Teen
Pages: 296
Format: Paperback
Source: ARC Provided by Publisher
Description:
For Kitty Doe, it seems like an easy choice. She can either
spend her life as a III in misery, looked down upon by the higher ranks and
forced to leave the people she loves, or she can become a VII and join the most
powerful family in the country.
If she says yes, Kitty will be Masked—surgically transformed
into Lila Hart, the Prime Minister’s niece, who died under mysterious
circumstances. As a member of the Hart family, she will be famous. She will be
adored. And for the first time, she will matter.
There’s only one catch. She must also stop the rebellion that
Lila secretly fostered. The same one that got her killed…and one Kitty believes
in. Faced with threats, conspiracies and a life that’s not her own, she must
decide which path to choose—and learn how to become more than a pawn in a
twisted game she’s only beginning to understand.
Review:
Pawn was my very first Aimée Carter book—why it took me all this time to try
this author is still something unknown to me—and despite my immense curiosity
towards the story it is a fact that I didn’t really know what to expect… and
what a great, shockingly good surprise this one turned out to be!
Dystopian novels have been
growing on me for the past few months becoming one of my all-time favourite
genres to read, and whenever I see a new release coming out I can’t quite
resist the urge of at least taking a look. Pawn
was one of those tempting cases—a gorgeous cover, an interesting storyline and
the promise of a grand adventure were more than enough to catch my full
attention.
Kitty Doe is an Extra—which
means she’s a burden—and regardless of the possibilities that might reach her
way once she takes the test that will determine her place in the society, she
knows she’ll never be able to get a good enough score to grant her the
stability and decent sense of living needed to build a safe future with Bengy,
the boy she loves. So when the opportunity of going up a few numbers in the
rank takes place, she’d be a fool not to accept it—the only problem relies on
what she’ll have to give up in return in order to become part of the most
powerful family in the country.
Oh dear goodness in heaven,
this book still gives me the chills! There are simply no sufficient words to
express how incredibly mesmerizing, and exhilarating, and refreshing this book
truly is. Carter created a fabulous world of false hope and mischievous
secrets, little imperfections that gradually start coming up during Kitty’s
self discoveries. She is in deep, deep trouble, and it is quite amazing and
exciting to ‘watch’ how Carter draws her main character’s lines of life through
the dangerous fate of becoming a Hart. This story is twisted in so many and
unimaginable ways that even for me is extremely complicated to put into words
how fascinating this narrative can be to a dystopia’s fan.
So many are the details
that give life to Pawn—even the title
is a key aspect of what this story hopes to portray. The society itself is
interesting as Carter was seriously intelligent in the way she developed and
structured the world building, but also the characters are a feature of great
importance. Kitty is witty, and courageous, and fragile all at the same time,
and that gives her the necessary depth for the reader to connect. The things
she has to go through in order to conquer a very wanted freedom are
unbelievable and the way she reacts to things, to the situations she is pushed
to only make her even more special. In addition, even the secondary cast is
graciously terrifying and often cruel. Figures like Knox, Daxton and Bengy
shape what’s good and what’s bad in this thrilling narrative and it’s
impossible not to care for them, even for the perverted, sick ones.
With no obvious love
triangle—which counts as a bonus for me—, no romantic relationship taking over
the plot and a brutal and merciless place called Elsewhere in the horizon, Pawn is, without a doubt, a great read
to dive right into. After turning the last page, I can only imagine the secrets
and surprises kept in Captive, the
second instalment in this trilogy. Uh, I can’t wait!
UK Cover
(Mira Ink)
Já olharam bem para esta capa? É que é
absolutamente, maravilhosamente, espectacularmente linda! E foi precisamente
pela capa que adquiri o livro... Já andava com vontade de lhe pegar e quando me
deparei com duas pessoas a lê-lo, e a falarem bem dele, por sinal, pensei que
este era o momento certo para, também eu, o devorar. E não estou nada, nada
arrependida.
