![]() ![]() I’ve always been the kind of person to fight for what she wants and ignore everyone who ever told me to give up, that it’s not worth it, that it would be too difficult for me, that I would tire of it, that that’s not who I am, and so on. Someone should tell them they’re a bit early. ![]() And still, the people here today have swarmed like flies to a rotting corpse. Different girl, different boys, but the rest: same same same. But after a few months, they all sounded the same. When I was about to turn fifteen, I got up extra early so I could finish my chores and then listen to every minute of the tests. This book is as beautiful interiorly as it is exteriorly.īut I didn’t expect it to affect me this much. As the tests advance, Sudasa and Kiran thwart each other at every turn until they slowly realize that they just might want the same thing. Sudasa, though, doesn’t want to be a wife, and Kiran, a boy forced to compete in the test to become her husband, has other plans as well. Tired of marrying off their daughters to the highest bidder and determined to finally make marriage fair, the women who form the country of Koyanagar have instituted a series of tests so that every boy has the chance to win a wife. In the year 2054, after decades of gender selection, India now has a ratio of five boys for every girl, making women an incredibly valuable commodity. ![]() Genres & Themes: Young Adult, Dystopian, Feminism, Freedom, Competition ![]()
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