"Dept. of Reproductive Management" by Kelly A. Wilson, my final thoughts

I have finished Dept. of Reproductive Management by Kelly A. Wilson and it was a good read. It was a very quick read and easy. Chapters are fairly short. The book is only a little over 300 pages so it's not very long. I just took my time with it so it took a little longer that it probably should have. A
quick reader could probably finish this book in nearly one sitting.

Anyways, to the basic summary. In this distopia, reproduction is heavily regulated. You have to go through a selection process and if you are approved you are able to have children. But those who don't get approved have their children taken away and are put to jail. The illegal children are sent to re-education centers, which are like orphanages, but way more strict and when they turn eighteen they either go off to college or are sent to become Remos, who are the officers who enforce this reproduction law. The story follows a 16 year old girl named Maggie and her brother Ryker and a young man who helps them get what they are looking for named Wick (love his name btw). And the story is about their journey getting past Remos and getting a woman's DNA that they need to try and bring down the system of the DRM.

Like I said, I did enjoy this book. It was a fun, fast read. I didn't like the ending though. I felt the book could have gone for another 50 pages to wrap things up and it would have been perfect. Unless the author is planning on a sequel, then it's not as bad of an ending. But if there isn't going to be a sequel the ending was totally lame and needed to be extended even maybe by one or two chapters. But my opinion depends if there will be a sequel or not and I haven't really looked into it quite yet.

One small thing that kind of bothered me was that there were several spelling mistakes. Early in the book it wasn't too bad; they were fairly sparse. But the last third of the novel I started noticing them more frequently and they were ones that should have been caught. I can deal with a few missed, but there seemed to be quite a few near the end and it kind of bothered me.

What i loved about this book was that this kind of thing is not that crazy of an idea. Honestly, I could see some country try to do this to regulate the population or to try and prevent child abuse and starvation, which are the reasons why this program started in the first place but then things started getting out of hand. I think that is why I loved it so much, because it's not a completely foreign idea. It's something that could really happen, and it's kind of scarey, but those also make the best books. Because they are right on the line of impossible and possible, and I think Kelly A. Wilson did a good job of portraying that in this novel.

I am going to rate this novel a 4/5 on goodreads.com and I would like to thank the author for sending me the book from a giveaway for an honest review. The only reason I'm giving it a 4 is because of the spelling mistakes and my thoughts about the ending. Otherwise it would have been a 5.

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The next book I am going to be reading is The Thirteenth Tale by Diane Setterfield. I've had this on my shelf for awhile so it's time to finally read it. Happy reading everyone :)