Title: The Rule of One (The Rule of One #1)
Author: Ashley Saunders and Leslie Saunders
Genre: Science Fiction/Futuristic
Pages: 270 (Paperback)
Publisher: Skyscape
Publication date: October 1st, 2018
Synopsis from The Rule of One's Goodreads page
In their world, telling the truth has become the most dangerous crime of all.
In the near-future United States, a one-child policy is ruthlessly enforced. Everyone follows the Rule of One. But Ava Goodwin, daughter of the head of the Texas Family Planning Division, has a secret—one her mother died to keep and her father has helped to hide for her entire life.
She has an identical twin sister, Mira.
For eighteen years Ava and Mira have lived as one, trading places day after day, maintaining an interchangeable existence down to the most telling detail. But when their charade is exposed, their worst nightmare begins. Now they must leave behind the father they love and fight for their lives.
Branded as traitors, hunted as fugitives, and pushed to discover just how far they’ll go in order to stay alive, Ava and Mira rush headlong into a terrifying unknown.
Synopsis from The Rule of One's Goodreads page
In their world, telling the truth has become the most dangerous crime of all.
In the near-future United States, a one-child policy is ruthlessly enforced. Everyone follows the Rule of One. But Ava Goodwin, daughter of the head of the Texas Family Planning Division, has a secret—one her mother died to keep and her father has helped to hide for her entire life.
She has an identical twin sister, Mira.
For eighteen years Ava and Mira have lived as one, trading places day after day, maintaining an interchangeable existence down to the most telling detail. But when their charade is exposed, their worst nightmare begins. Now they must leave behind the father they love and fight for their lives.
Branded as traitors, hunted as fugitives, and pushed to discover just how far they’ll go in order to stay alive, Ava and Mira rush headlong into a terrifying unknown.
THOUGHTS
Thank you so much to Thomas Allen & Son for sending me an ARC of this book in exchange for an honest review!
I was a little hesitant going into this book, because I went into it pretty blind! Every once in awhile I enjoy starting to read a book having forgotten what it was about, and honestly I think that was a good decision with this book!
I wasn't quite sure what to expect with this book, however I did enjoy it quite a bit! It is a very futuristic, science fiction-y type book, however it doesn't really feel like that when you read it. It takes place in the future where the government of the United States has drastically changed for the worst, and controls the number of children a family can have. Unfortunately, the main family in the novel had identical twin girls, and instead of choosing one to keep, they managed to hide them and allow each of them to have a life that the government doesn't know about.
I liked the premise of the book itself - I enjoy futuristic books where the government has become all-controlling because I really enjoy seeing how the characters will react to what happens, and I feel like you can learn a lot about characters that way.
Both Ava and Mira are very similar characters, however the author right away makes distinctions between them, and I enjoyed that. It makes the reader more impressed that they had managed to pretend to be the same person much more impressive.
I also enjoyed their relationship, as well as their relationships with other people. They both felt very real and I liked seeing how they were able to react to other people and each other.
One issue I had with this book was that it was a little slow at the beginning. I found that it took a little for the major action to start, however I also found that all the information that was explained in the beginning was necessary for the book, so it was a little slow but very much needed.
Another thing was that I found both characters' point of views to be VERY similar - I had a hard time distinguishing which character was which, and I had to go back to the beginning of the chapter to figure out exactly which character's point of view I was reading a few times throughout the novel.
I enjoyed the book, and although it did feel familiar at some points to some other books I have read and some TV shows I have watched, I did enjoy it and I am for sure going to be reading the second novel!
I was a little hesitant going into this book, because I went into it pretty blind! Every once in awhile I enjoy starting to read a book having forgotten what it was about, and honestly I think that was a good decision with this book!
I wasn't quite sure what to expect with this book, however I did enjoy it quite a bit! It is a very futuristic, science fiction-y type book, however it doesn't really feel like that when you read it. It takes place in the future where the government of the United States has drastically changed for the worst, and controls the number of children a family can have. Unfortunately, the main family in the novel had identical twin girls, and instead of choosing one to keep, they managed to hide them and allow each of them to have a life that the government doesn't know about.
I liked the premise of the book itself - I enjoy futuristic books where the government has become all-controlling because I really enjoy seeing how the characters will react to what happens, and I feel like you can learn a lot about characters that way.
Both Ava and Mira are very similar characters, however the author right away makes distinctions between them, and I enjoyed that. It makes the reader more impressed that they had managed to pretend to be the same person much more impressive.
I also enjoyed their relationship, as well as their relationships with other people. They both felt very real and I liked seeing how they were able to react to other people and each other.
One issue I had with this book was that it was a little slow at the beginning. I found that it took a little for the major action to start, however I also found that all the information that was explained in the beginning was necessary for the book, so it was a little slow but very much needed.
Another thing was that I found both characters' point of views to be VERY similar - I had a hard time distinguishing which character was which, and I had to go back to the beginning of the chapter to figure out exactly which character's point of view I was reading a few times throughout the novel.
I enjoyed the book, and although it did feel familiar at some points to some other books I have read and some TV shows I have watched, I did enjoy it and I am for sure going to be reading the second novel!
Overall - ★★★☆☆.5
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