I absolutely love dystopian novels. Especially ones that have a plausible storyline. One that, we could just see it happening in our or a parallel world.

For Brito is exactly that. It’s a dutopian world built on the foundation of our current world. If things go the way they did in the book, it wouldn’t be fiction; but a very grave reality.

This book has great promise. It’s addictive and you always need to know more or what’s going to happen. It starts off slow and with lack of emotion. You can just feel how every Operative is meant to be. Cold, emotionless, only there to do their work and not caring about anyone or anything.

We meet Everly right off the bat, and he is as much of an Operative as his boss Command Raines. But something underneath all this facade, something human, nudges him. He is torn between he should be and what he could. Captain Selby is a part of an underground organisation trying to help people break free from Brito.

As the story and Everly evolve we see the hidden human inside him. He falls in love, he starts to feel and he learns to fight. For his freedom and everyone else who have been diminished by Brito.

The story is captivating, and I absolutely enjoyed reading this one. I love how RD Morris kept the language clean and away from her own political stances. I loved how the emotion of the book evolved as Everly did. And most importantly I loved the ending. It was both gut wrenching and clever.

If you love dystopia, out-of-the-box imagination and book with a heart of its own, then this one is for you!

Thank you @rdmorris for an Author’s Copy and I absolutely admire you and your work!

My favorite quote:

«Everly closed his eyes and convulsed in fear. This had to be a dream, he thought. He begged it inside his mind. Twice in one night had he been confronted by his own death. The InOp didn’t kill him, but maybe the Command would, he feared with all the the knowledge that Operatives kill without thinking»