Thea: The Declaration is a book I probably never would have heard of if it wasn’t for Ana. I love the premise, I love the thought-provoking issues that it raises but the writing was a let-down, unfortunately. Bearing in mind that I haven’t read a lot of dystopian fiction, I did enjoy The Declaration, only not as much as I thought I would. The funny thing is: I was purely attracted to the combination of Title and Cover and had no idea that it was a dystopian story (bad Ana)! As soon as I realised what it was about, I enlisted Thea to read it as well, given how she is the Dystopian fiction expert around these areas. Peter begs Anna to escape with him, but Anna’s not sure who to trust: the strange new boy whose version of life sounds like a dangerous fairy tale, or the familiar walls of Grange Hall and the head mistress who has controlled her every waking thought?Ĭhilling, poignant, and endlessly though-provoking, The Declaration is a powerful debut that will have readers agonizing over Anna’s fate until the very last page.Īna: The Declaration has been on my radar for quite a while now, as I see it in every book shop I go to and I had it in my hands numerous times before I actually bought it. Then one day a boy named Peter appears at the Hall, bringing with him news of the world outside, a place where people are starting to say that Longevity is bad, and that maybe people shouldn’t live forever. These children are raised as servants, and brought up to believe they must atone for their very existence.

The facility is full of boys and girls whose parents chose to have kids-called surpluses-despite a law forbidding them from doing so. Nor should any of the children she lives with at Grange Hall. A never-aging society can’t sustain population growth, however…which means Anna should never have been born.

It’s the year 2140 and Longevity drugs have all but eradicated old age. Stand alone or series: Book 1 in a two book duology. Publishing Date: May 2008 (UK)/ August 2008 (USA)

The resistance by gemma malley