I was TRANSPORTED by this book! There are a handful of books where I get the feeling that my consciousness, my awareness, my very being has been moved to a different world, and this is one of those books. I could not step away from this story. Hence, why I am reviewing the first book and the first novella. The timelines go hand in hand, honestly. You can't have one without the other.

Eva and Ari live in an extremely restrictive community of people. This world is sometime in the future, where current society as we know it has fallen, and these "commonwealth" communities have sprouted up all over the country. They are fenced in communities where the citizens are "safe" from the outside "barbarians." But it is at the cost of their individual freedom. Each citizen in the commonwealth must always work for the common good, no fraternizing with the opposite sex, all people are born from a lab setting, and nothing is your own everything is shared.

Eva has always questioned her place in this community and cannot make herself be subservient to the rules of the commonwealth, and Ari has always cared too much about his peers to fit the mold required in the commonwealth.

Of course, the outside world is not all they have been told it is. So, I'm very excited to continue on my reading journey.