Only Ever Yours

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"Where women are created for the pleasure of men, beauty is the first duty of every girl. In Louise O'Neill's world of Only Every Yours women are no longer born naturally, girls (called "eves") are raised in Schools and trained in the arts of pleasing men until they come of age. Freida and Isabel are best friends. Now, aged sixteen and in their final year, they expect to be selected as companions--wives to powerful men. All they have to do is ensure they stay in the top ten beautiful girls in their year. The alternatives--life as a concubine, or a chastity (teaching endless generations of girls)--are too horrible to contemplate. But as the intensity of final year takes hold, the pressure to be perfect mounts. Isabel starts to self-destruct, putting her beauty--her only asset--in peril. 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"--Amazon.com.

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Mind Blowing submitted by seraphina on June 20, 2018, 9:38pm This has to be one of my all-time favorite books. One of the most unique parts about it is that O'Neill creates a world in which the reader can recognize many, many all-too-familiar aspects of misogyny from our world's modern culture. The way she juxtaposes feelings and experiences that all girls have to go through with a dystopian, terrifying future is absolutely insane. I could barely put this down. 11/10!

Good submitted by zmclaugh on July 25, 2018, 3:03pm I definitely recommend this one. Very, very dark. This is not your typical YA dystopian novel.