Meritropolis by Joel Ohman

Admin | On February 2, 2018

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What Gives A Person Their Worth?

In Meritopolis, life is cruel, unless you are deemed to be of high intelligence. Each member of the society has their intelligence number tattooed on their arm. If you have a score over 100, you live a safe and privileged life. If you have a low score below 50, you are deemed to be a burden to the city and locked outside of the gates at night to be killed by vicious, hybrid animal monsters.

˃˃˃ Is All Life Valuable?

Charley achieves a score of 118, one of the highest in Meritopolis. That score affords him a lot of perks, but seeing a little girl about to be zeroed brings back memories of his brother, Alec, who was also zeroed as a child, and sends him into a blind rage. He saves the little girl, for now, but at the expense of his best friend, who is chosen to be put outside the gates in her place.

Charley vows then and there that he will fight the system because he knows all life is valuable, regardless of what the system dictates. But should he fight the system from within or attack it from the outside? And are they really the only people left after The Event, or is that just another lie perpetuated by the system?

˃˃˃ Unrelenting Physical And Philosophical Action

From page one to the end, Meritopolis never slows down. Fans of Hunger Games, The Maze Runner and Divergent will love in this mind-blowing young adult dystopian thriller.

Genre: SciFi, Young Adult