Book Review-ReSet
Posted: Fri Jan 05, 2024 8:55 pm
Title: ReSet
Author:Savanna Loy
Genre: Dystopian
Series: No (possible sequel)
Brief Summary:
Disgusted by all the corruption, crime, and evil happening in the world, a disgraced General and a hand-chosen committee of 10 decide to take matters into their own hands. It is decided that what the United States needs is a complete reset in order to rebuild a totally new, improved, and moral society. Each committee member will head up a city and be responsible for its morality. Everyone else will be destroyed.
To ensure that the plan succeeds, each new Reset city will be monitored, with each citizen over the age of 5 being implanted with a monitoring chip. In addition, a morality bar will be placed in each city, and any act of badness (no matter how small) will be recorded on the bar. Once the bar is full, that city will be reset and the population destroyed.
Sounds too good to be true? It is. Even Utopia has its dirty secrets. Secrets that threaten to destroy them all.
Here is what Goodreads has to say:
I absolutely loved this book, except for the very end. It ended abruptly, and one can only hope that there will be a sequel. But the pacing of the book was spot on otherwise, and the story definitely kept me intrigued. I am a fan of dystopian fiction, and this was one of the best I have read in awhile.
Author:Savanna Loy
Genre: Dystopian
Series: No (possible sequel)
Brief Summary:
Disgusted by all the corruption, crime, and evil happening in the world, a disgraced General and a hand-chosen committee of 10 decide to take matters into their own hands. It is decided that what the United States needs is a complete reset in order to rebuild a totally new, improved, and moral society. Each committee member will head up a city and be responsible for its morality. Everyone else will be destroyed.
To ensure that the plan succeeds, each new Reset city will be monitored, with each citizen over the age of 5 being implanted with a monitoring chip. In addition, a morality bar will be placed in each city, and any act of badness (no matter how small) will be recorded on the bar. Once the bar is full, that city will be reset and the population destroyed.
Sounds too good to be true? It is. Even Utopia has its dirty secrets. Secrets that threaten to destroy them all.
Here is what Goodreads has to say:
My take on things:Disgusted by a world with no moral compass, “Resetters” decide to clean things up. They start the world over with just 500 people who they deem “good” enough. The Every bad action is monitored and goes against you. Too many bad actions and the whole town will meet its doom. The plan has worked, until now… The model city, Utopian , can’t seem to keep the new kid Tommy out of trouble. The unthinkable happens and Utopian is set for a full ReSet , but when the ”Resetters” arrive, the town has already vanished. Tommy must unite with his foe, perfect Charlie, to save themselves and everyone else
I absolutely loved this book, except for the very end. It ended abruptly, and one can only hope that there will be a sequel. But the pacing of the book was spot on otherwise, and the story definitely kept me intrigued. I am a fan of dystopian fiction, and this was one of the best I have read in awhile.