{Review} The Pledge (The Pledge #1) by @kimberlyderting

Author: Kimberly Derting  
Series: The Pledge  
Publisher: Simon and Schuster   
Release Date: 11/15/2011  
Pages: 323 
Format: Print 
Source: Purchased
Description:
In the violent country of Ludania, the classes are strictly divided by the language they speak. The smallest transgression, like looking a member of a higher class in the eye while they are speaking their native tongue, results in immediate execution. Seventeen-year-old Charlaina has always been able to understand the languages of all classes, and she's spent her life trying to hide her secret. The only place she can really be free is the drug-fueled underground clubs where people go to shake off the oppressive rules of the world they live in. It's there that she meets a beautiful and mysterious boy named Max who speaks a language she's never heard before . . . and her secret is almost exposed.  Charlie is intensely attracted to Max, even though she can't be sure where his real loyalties lie. As the emergency drills give way to real crisis and the violence escalates, it becomes clear that Charlie is the key to something much bigger: her country's only chance for freedom from the terrible power of a deadly regime.(

  Author Kimberly Derting Kimberly Derting is the author of the BODY FINDER series, THE PLEDGE trilogy, and THE TAKING (coming April 2014 from HarperTeen). She lives in the Seattle area, with her husband and three children, who often find the outrageous things they say either in the pages of her books or posted on Twitter or Facebook for the entire world to see.
      

This was such a great book!  At first I didn't like it at all.  I though it was slow and just a pointless read.  But after I read through 134 page the story was so good and mind blowing that I couldn't put it down! 

"*I received a copy of this book for free to review, this in no way influenced my review, all opinions are 100% honest and my own."

  

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Posted in: 5 Stars, Kimberly Derting, Review, Simon & Schuster, Young Adult