Recruitment
In the Valta, no matter what month you were born, everyone is assigned the same birthday. November 1st. It’s the anniversary of the day when the government declared war on the Eastern Order. The day you turn seventeen, the Recruiters come to take you away. And no one ever hears from you again. It’s October 31st. Today, Kress is sixteen years old. Tomorrow, she’ll be taken. The good news? So will her best friend Cardyn, and Brohn, the handsome, enigmatic boy she’s avoided all her life. The bad news? Recruitment isn’t what any of them expected. Weeks of training await. Military and psychological tests, escape rooms, hand-to-hand combat. The Recruits are told they’re the key to winning the war. But with each day that passes, things begin to make less sense. If only Kress had been able to bring her trained raven, Render, with her. If only none of them had ever had to come to this place.
About the Author:
K. A. Riley is a writer of speculative and science fiction, dedicated to creating worlds just different enough from our own to be entertaining, intriguing and a little frightening all at once. For Riley, writing isn’t a job. It’s a laboratory where readers can wander into a land of ideas; it’s a playground where they can scamper around, giggling, gasping, and freaking out to their hearts’ content.
Riley is the top-secret pen-name of a NYT and USA Today best-selling author.
It has been a while since I have read a dystopian book because of the fact that I have been trying to enjoy fairy tales. I have never been much a fairy tale type of girl because I cannot stand that they always end with a happy ending. It’s not that I do not like happy endings, it is just that over time they are not as enjoyable.
Starting a dystopian was like returning home after a long vacation. I do not know what it is about dystopian books, but I enjoy the puzzles and mystery about them. Now I do not like the zombie apocalypse books, but I do enjoy a few. Recruitment was a different take on a dystopian book, but different in a good way.
I enjoyed traveling alongside each of the seventeen’s as they are ripped away from their home to be recruited for the military. I was slowly able to connect with each character, but I do not think that I was able to figure out my favorite character. Each character was unique and special in their own way, but none where my favorite. None stood out to me. I enjoyed getting to know Kress and walk alongside her as her bond with Render gets stronger.
Overall I am so glad that I picked this book to read. It has been such an adventure to travel with the seventeen’s and solve puzzles with them. This book was a little slow at the beginning, but as it neared the middle, it picked up and I was not able to put it down.
