Author: Cecelia Ahern    Published: 2016

Series: Flawed

Genres: YA, Dystopian

By: Tia

17-year-old Celestine North is a perfectionist who lives with her perfect family in their perfect society. She has great grades, an awesome boyfriend, and big dreams for the future. Until one day Celestine helps a “Flawed” man, someone she shouldn’t have helped, and everything turns to dust. Now her freedom, rights, privileges, and luxuries are gone, and she’s fighting to stay strong, to stand for humanity, and to defend the risk-taking, mistake-making outcasts of society, The Flawed. 

I had already read this book a few years ago, but I thoroughly enjoyed reading it again and feeling hatred, disgust, sadness, excitement, and pride as Celestine lives in the unjust system of her world.  

Sometimes throughout Flawed, I had a very strong urge to put the book down and stop reading, not because it was terribly written because it wasn’t, but because I got so annoyed at the unfairness of the rules and about how horribly people treated each other. There was no respect, sympathy, or kindness given to those that had once made a small mistake in their life.

They could never go back to normal but instead had to painfully live every day where others dictated what they did. What was even worse was that criminals, people who had committed murder, who had purposefully inflicted pain on others, had a better life than the ‘Flawed’. As soon as they were out of prison they could go back to living a normal life, whereas the ‘Flawed’ could never do that. I think the author, Cecelia Ahern did a great job writing this book to make readers think about injustice, privileges, and the negative effects of having bad influential leaders. I recommend this book to anyone who has an interest in those areas, and even to anyone who wants to sit down and have a good fiction book to read. 

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