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In the beginning, I was really uncomfortable reading State of Grace. It was awkward and too perfect. Teenagers with no limits or boundaries. No moral code. A disturbing utopia. One where a bizarre higher power controls peoples lives.

And I was reluctant to get into it. The pacing was slow and I felt like it was going nowhere.

Then, I started to notice small, odd (odder than everything else this book had already offered) occurrences that seemed out of place.

The pacing picked up. Way up.

The characters were becoming self-aware.

And I was engrossed!

I loved this book. I don’t usually read Utopias, but I’m glad I did. (and the author is Australian, so it’s a given that this book would be awesome).

It really is a book to make you step back and think how some of this relates to the way people act now. Following anything just because that is what they’re told to do, without deciding if it’s right for themselves.

It takes of major issues such as depression and suicide and rape. I think it was handled well, but like I said before, I was uncomfortable at times because how okay everyone was with it. But that was the state of grace they were in.

I loved the concept of State of Grace. Almost like a virtual Sims game. Almost like the Matrix. Almost like The Giver. And just as impressive and interesting as those things.