Warning: Contains miner spoilers.

Pawn was a book I wasnt excited to read, it court my attention and obviously convinced me to buy it but there was something about it that didn't ignite a passion to read it. However when I read the first page I was hooked, it was a slow read for me but a constant one, I could easily put the book down but just as easily pick it back up.

I found the characters to be believable and even thought they and the world was flawed you could see everyones perspective of it by the end. I found myself being to emotionally invested with everything that was going on by the end of the book, even the few things I didnt care for at the start and still do not care for in other books.

Pawn by Amiee Carter is get in a future America, After it was ravaged by wars and devastation it has picked its self back up and revolved into a ranked society ranging from the lowest being I and the highest being VII, on your 17th birthday you must take a test to determine you rank, once given your rank you are designated a job and an area where you will be living. This is when we meet our protagonist Kitty Doe, Kitty has just sat her test and gotten a III, she had already been marked with it which is a tattoo on the base of the neck, it also leaves what is described as ugly ridges under the skin that can not be removed, it is in these first few pages that we find it she shares the same eyes as Lila Hart the niece of the Prime Minister Daxton Hart.

This is a fact that comes into play later on, Kitty knowing what her life will be like as a III and not wanting to drag her boyfriend down with her or to loose him, she decides to got underground into places where your mark doesnt matter, meeting up with a girl she was raised with Kitty is taken to a brothel where her virginity will be sold. To Kittys surprise she is brought my Daxton and offered the opportunity to become a VII (which you can only be born in to) excepting his offer she is dragged. Later she wakes up to find she is different, that only thing that remains of her is her mind and her eyes, the rest looks exactly like Lila Hart.

Kitty has to learn to be exactly like Lila from Lila mother and fiance leaving in the mean time that Kitty was at the centre of an up rising against the Harts and ranking system. We watch Kitty as she deals with loosing love and everything she has ever know to be flung into the spot light will trying to make sure no one notices any difference between Lila and Kitty.

The Corruption and back stabbing in the Hart family alone is enough to keep you hooked, there relation ships so twisted yet believable where we find out the masking of Kitty is not the only changes the family has taken to keep their power.

In short it is an excellent read I would recommend to anyone interested in YA dystopian Fiction with a lot of character and world development, a bit of romance and action and just a tone of emotion. It has the power to shock and make you feel will leaving you wanting more, even if it doesnt immediately. I am eagerly awaiting the next book.

WARNING: POSSIBLE SPOILERS
Rating: 4 out of 5 stars

When I first started reading Pawn, I thought not another dystopia novel but I was pleasantly surprised by this book. Its believable heroine, original storyline and the political game of secrecy and cover-ups played by the Hart family kept me glued to the pages.

Aimee Carters Pawn is set in a future America which, after suffering wars and devastation, implemented a casting system in which each person is ranked I to VII (with VII being the highest) according to their results on a test, sat on their 17th birthday. When Kitty Doe gets a low ranking III, she makes the choice to escape the life planned out for her cleaning sewers, leaving her boyfriend behind she goes to work in a seedy club. Here she is quickly claimed by none other than the Prime Minister, Daxton Hart, and offered the chance to change her rank to a VII, a privilege reserved only for the Hart family, if she comes with him. Although suspicious of the offer, Kitty takes the chance, only to find she must leave her life behind and become someone else entirely.

Through an extreme cosmetic procedure called Masking, the Prime Minister turns Kitty into his rebellious niece, Lila Hart, and tells her she must learn to become Lila, who died in a skiing accident. Kitty soon learns that Lila had been undertaking a dangerous mission to rally the lower classes to overthrow the Hart regime alongside Lilas mother, Celia. Kitty then has the choice to continue Lilas work or enjoy the perks of being a VII and protect her boyfriend, Benjy.

The idea of a world where a class system has been put in place to reduce overpopulation, violence and lack of resources intrigued me. The class system is kept in check by the much feared Elsewhere; a place where law-breakers and the elderly are sent and never seen again. I can recognise the same problems in our own world and can imagine that we may also be forced to make drastic changes to solve them.

The plots and treachery of the Hart family, and the lengths they would go to in order to remain in power, at times horrified me but made Pawn an exciting and original novel. I eagerly await the rest of the series.

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