Lyn has grown up knowing only Glad culture.  Her mother has tried to talk her into becoming a Glad wife like her, but Lyn doesn’t want to watch 7 husbands die in the arena.  She is a pacifist and wants nothing more than to leave the Gladiator lifestyle behind her.  But when her 7th gladiator father, Tommy,  is going into the arena against a foe he doesn’t think he can beat she gives her father her dowry bracelet.  If you are a girl in the Glad life your father is the only one that is allowed to touch this bracelet.  If another man does, you must marry him.  So when her fathers killer, Uber, puts on the bracelet in front of the entire audience live and on t.v. she has a major choice to make.  Does she marry the man who killed her father? Or does she find a different way out?  With her mother and her psychic little brother to think of she must decide if she is going to follow glad culture and give up her dreams to save what is left of her family or if she is going to make her own way out of all the drama.

This book was so awesome.  With a mixture of old time charm and consumerism to the max this book is one I didn’t want to put down.  Her little brother Thad won me over from his first appearancein the book.  Paparazzi are on the level of insane stalkers throughout the whole book.  It was a book that brought to life a lot of the ugly truths about our world while only showing what we could have been, or maybe still could be.  If you are looking for a great book that ranks up there with the Hunger Games then check this one out.  I bet you won’t be sorry you did.

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