Divided by day and night and on the run from authorities, star-crossed young lovers unearth a sinister conspiracy in this compelling romantic thriller.
Seventeen-year-old Soleil Le Coeur is a Smudge—a night dweller prohibited by law from going out during the day. When she fakes an injury in order to get access to and kidnap her newborn niece—a day dweller, or Ray—she sets in motion a fast-paced adventure that will bring her into conflict with the powerful lawmakers who order her world, and draw her together with the boy she was destined to fall in love with, but who is also a Ray.
Set in a vivid alternate reality and peopled with complex, deeply human characters on both sides of the day-night divide, Plus One is a brilliantly imagined drama of individual liberty and civil rights, and a fast-paced romantic adventure story.
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I fell in love with this cover and the story just sounded divine. And I was hooked by the first few pages. The world is split into two shifts. Night and Day or Smudge and Ray. Our main character Sol wants to kidnap her niece so her grandpa can hold her before he dies. But, little does she know that her plans are not going to go as planned.
I found this book to be very predictable by the middle. The back and forth from the past to the present was wonderful and didn't confuse me at all. But I think it would have been better to start the story out with the before completely then do all the now. As in a complete timeline vs. this back and forth that really gave part of the main story away. The other issue I had was when Sol was walking around in the daylight. If she has never been out in the sun. 1. she wouldn't be able to withstand the sunlight and 2. she would be ghostly pale. Enough that the Hour Guards would know spot on that she didn't belong. So those two things didn't add up for me.
I did love the world building it was done in such a simple way that I could see it coming true. I love books that do that. Because it helps to pull you into the story and makes it feel more realistic. It was awesome.
I think the plot it self was very week to non existent. When I found out almost at the end what was really going on I was WTF. It was very disappointing. So although this book had a great start and even better world building. I think that the story itself should have focused on the kids trying ti rid the world of the split. Or something along those lines. vs. with what it was all about. So unfortunately although this one has an amazing cover it lacked a great story.
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Wednesday
4:30 A.M.
It takes guts to deliberately mutilate your hand while operating a blister-pack sealing machine, but all I had going for me was guts. It seemed like a fair trade: lose maybe a week’s wages and possibly the tip of my right middle finger, and in exchange Poppu would get to hold his great- granddaughter before he died.
I wasn’t into babies, but Poppu’s unseeing eyes filled to spilling when he spoke of Ciel’s daughter, and that was more than I could bear. It was absurd to me that the dying should grieve the living when the living in this case was only seven miles away. Poppu needed to hold that baby, and I was going to bring her to him, even if Ciel wouldn’t.
The machine was programmed to drop daily doses of Circa-Diem and vitamin D into the thirty slots of a blister tray. My job was mind- numbingly boring, and I’d done it maybe a hundred thousand times before without messing up: align a perforated prescription card on the conveyor, slip the PVC blister tray into the card, slide the conveyor to the right under the pill dispenser, inspect the pills after the tray has been filled, fold the foil half of the card over, and slide the conveyor to the left under the heat-sealing plate. Over and over I’d gone through these motions for hours after school, with the rhythmic swooshing, whirring, and stamping of the factory’s powder compresses, laser inscribers, and motors penetrating my wax earplugs no matter how well I molded them to my ear canal.
I should have had a concrete plan for stealing my brother’s baby, with backups and contingencies, but that’s not how my brain works. I only knew for sure how I was going to get into the hospital. There were possible complications that I pushed to the periphery of my mind because they were too overwhelming to think about: I didn’t know how I’d return my niece when I was done with her; I’d be navigating the city during the day with only a Smudge ID; if I was detained by an Hour Guard, there was a chance I’d never see Poppu again.
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I'm still on the fence about reading this one, because I've seen a lot of mixed reviews for it.
It sounds like a very interesting read, but if the story was weak it's gonna be hard to get into.
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