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This book sounded so good just from the description (we could control our emotions?! Heck yeah sign me up!) and sometimes I'm let down by that. This wasn't one of those times. This book was fantastic, the characters seemed tangible and the plot was really flushed out well.

This story follows the young Alexandra nicknamed Lex, it's set in the future; 2041. The society we know is long gone, replaced by pharmaceutical companies who produce drugs that control how you feel. Lex just happens to be the daughter of the forensic psychiatrist who invented the drug. Things get going quickly and soon Lex finds herself helping the group: The Resistance, to show everyone the drugs aren't a good thing and hopefully take down the military group known as the Guardians.


This is an amazing debut novel, it's so good it doesn't even feel like a debut. The writing is simple and easy to follow, the characters are wonderfully written and the plot is pretty awesome.

I enjoyed Lex as the main character she is strong and very likable. Even though she is so scared to embark of this rebellion with the Resistance she goes ahead, knowing it could save lives. If that's not a good person I don't know what is.

There is some sweet romance in this book that I really enjoyed. I really like that Kane made Quin real, he wasn't perfect by any means but he was still so freaking wonderful that you can't help but fall for him.

I also really enjoyed the rest of the cast, in some books, I feel the side characters are just there to be there and they don't feel real at all. Not the case here, they all of their own realness about them.

This book does have very short chapters but I actually liked that. I'm the kind of person who tells myself that I will stop after one more chapter, but when they are this short I just keeping reading thinking to myself just one more and before I knew it, the book was over.