The Resistance (Declaration)

by Gemma Malley

The year is 2140. Peter and Anna are now living on the Outside as Legals. As an agent in the Underground, Peter is tasked with infiltrating Pincent Pharma Corporation and find out what's happening in the secret Longevity programme. Peter must feign a reconciliation and win the trust of his grandather, Richard Pincent, one of the most powerful men on the planet, whose company, Pincent Pharma, is chasing the holy grail of modern science - a drug which will reverse ageing and make people look young again. But his grandfather has his own plans for Peter - plans which involve Peter and Anna signing the Declaration and endorsing Longevity+. Richard Pincent will stop at nothing to get what he wants, even if it means ripping Peter and Anna's new life apart. At the heart of the organisation he most despises, Peter stumbles across something more sinister than he could ever have imagined, as powerful forces are gathering to crush the young couple's dreams.

• ISBN10: 1599903024
• ISBN13: 9781599903026
• Publish Date: 2 September 2008 (first published 1 September 2008)
• Publish Status: Out of Print
• Out of Print: 27 May 2021
• Publish Country: GB
• Publisher: Bloomsbury Publishing Plc
• Imprint: Bloomsbury Childrens Books
• Format: Hardcover
• Pages: 336
• Language: English

Reviews

This book once again provides questions and answers relating to a world where long life exists. For me this was the most interesting part of The Resistance.

Thank goodness I felt a lot more invested in The Resistance than The Declaration. In this book, I actually felt the shock, the indecisiveness, the anger and I was rooting for the characters to succeed.

Unfortunately, I couldn't connect with the main characters, Anna and Peter. I felt that their soul reason for being together was not really because they loved each other, but it was more for creating a future generation of human beings. Even although Anna and Peter are made to seem like adults in the sense of getting a job, looking after a small baby, they kept on reminding me that they were only teenagers. They were young and immature and this made me feel a little uncomfortable with their lives.

The first half of this book was about infiltrating Pincent Pharma and worrying about signing the Declaration, but towards the end, the pace picked up and the book began to feel a lot more actiony.

This book was much better than the the first one and even although I wasn't connecting with Anna and Peter as characters, the book was a quick read and provided an interesting concept.