Eazee Life- Blog Tour

 

Author: Billie Hill

Publisher: Spell Bound Books

Publishing Date: 20th Se

Many thanks to ZooLoos BT and the pubslihing team for my digital copy of the book and a spot on the tour

Blurb

What is it that makes you human?
The ability to pass your genes on into the future?
Or maybe it’s how rich you are.
Could it be the fact that you were born and have the right to a soul? 

But what about Benedict? 
A clone. 
Not born but grown in a tank to fulfil a purpose not his own? 
Is it his capacity to care, to love that will make him human?


2123. How the world has changed from the before time. Genetically modified corn, spread across the world by powerful companies and meant to save mankind from famine, ultimately condemns it to infertility and the spectre of annihilation. Hydraulic fracking has laid most of the Sovereign State of England to waste.


But this is a world where if you are rich enough you can have your twisted genes modified which gives you the right to a life of pampered luxury.
The poor, unable to afford the ‘procedure’ are viewed as wastes .

It’s a sweet life for a zenith breeder like seventeen year old Benny Blackwood, whose father’s extensive fracking has caused the air and water to become contaminated. Terrified of his own contamination, his father Charles builds a great Pod to keep his family and the most wealthy safe.

The NON breeders like Indian girl Ketty, her black friend Tish and her older brother Cody must live on the edge, hungry and persecuted in Zones outside the Pod, surviving through the always winter.

How can they escape the path laid out for them? Their only hope is to join the Macchia, the only resistance to the government.
The route out of the Zone is fraught with dangers, especially as they’ve made a serious enemy of Benny.

My Thoughts

Dystopian novels are not my general go to books but there was something about the blurb that made me want to read it and I am glad I did. Although it is aimed at more at the YA audience it was a well rounded book. 

One interesting aspect to this book was although it is set in the future, current issues around the world are spoken about and it gives that extra twist to the book.  As good as the book was it was also unsettling to read. Although we have an understanding about the rich and poor divide,  reading it in this plot and the erriness it provides makes you engaged to carry on reading it. 

I liked how the characters were well rounded and developed and the author did a good job in allowing you to read/ see the change in them. 

I really liked how each chapter also had it's own title which was a nice quirky aspect. 

This is book 1 in a trilogy series and I am really excited to see what is going to happen next!