The Pledge by Kimberly Derting
My rating: 5 of 5 stars
This book is another dystopian fiction novel, but with a new twist. The book is set in some distant future land and you can't tell whether it is Europe or the United States. The countries no longer have names and neither do the cities. The classes are separated by language but everyone also speaks Englaise. When a member of a different class lapses into their class tongue other not of that class can not look at them. This is what protagonist Charlie is starting to dislike the most. Unbeknownst to anyone besides her close knit family, Charlie can understand all language and she nearly uncovers her secret when she looks at her daily and personal tormentor while she is saying terrible things about Charlie in her upper class language. The lands are now ruled by queens, the post being handed down from mother to daughter or another female of the royal blood line. But the queen of Charlie's country has no daughters or grandaughters and is looking for an heir to force her special brand of evil upon. She has been looking for Charlie, but so have the rebels, the freedom fighters. Charlie soon finds that new friends have ulterior motives and old friends lead secret lives. How can Charlie keep her secret safe and her family? Read this first installment of an awesome new dystopian fiction series and find out.
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