read: 18.04.19 - 19.04.19

book: Only Ever Yours

author: Louise O'Neill

blurb: In a world in which baby girls are no longer born naturally, women are bred in schools, trained in the arts of pleasing men until they are ready for the outside world. At graduation, the most highly rated girls become "companions", permitted to live with their husbands and breed sons until they are no longer useful.

For the girls left behind, the future – as a concubine or a teacher – is grim.

Best friends Freida and Isabel are sure they'll be chosen as companions – they are among the most highly rated girls in their year.

But as the intensity of final year takes hold, Isabel does the unthinkable and starts to put on weight. ..
And then, into this sealed female environment, the boys arrive, eager to choose a bride.

Freida must fight for her future – even if it means betraying the only friend, the only love, she has ever known. . .

review: I was meant to re-read this book next month but I found myself in such a slump that I couldn't stop myself from re-reading this again. Last year this was probably my favourite read of the whole year by far, if not one of my favourite books ever. Re-reading this has been exactly the same experience.

I just love the storyline, and it still doesn't fail to amaze me with how well-thought out the storyline is. Everything is done so meticulously to put a mirror up to society and let us see what kind of world we're really living in.

This book makes me feel emotions deep inside me. When frieda messes up, my gut twists. When megan is a bitch, I feel personally offended.

I just really love this book, and I don't think I'll ever get sick of its storyline.

rating: 10/10