All Rights Reserved by Gregory Scott Katsoulis

All Rights Reserved (Word$, #1)

by Gregory Scott Katsoulis

'A chilling, unnerving, and timely debut' Katharine McGee, New York Times bestselling author of The Thousandth Floor

In a world where every word is copyrighted, one girl would rather remain silent than pay to speak

Speth has been raised to know the consequences of falling into debt, and can't begin to imagine the pain of having her eyes shocked for speaking words that she's unable to afford.

But when Speth's friend Beecher commits suicide rather than work off his family's crippling debt, she can't express her shock and dismay. Backed into a corner, Speth finds a loophole: she closes her mouth and vows never to speak again in protest at the unjust rules of the land.

Speth's unexpected defiance of tradition sparks a media frenzy, inspiring others to follow in her footsteps, and threatens to destroy her, her family and the entire city around them.

Readers love All Rights Reserved!

'I adored this book... The final speech in the book made me cry.'

'I loved this fresh new approach to a potential future dilemma.'

'I love the author's quick wit, and his characters are much more than one dimensional sci-fy heroes!'

'This book is an absolutely amazing piece of satiric literature'

Reviewed by Chelsea on

3 of 5 stars

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Actual Rating 3.5

I'm not really sure how I feel about this book. I thought the dystopian world that was created was really interesting and VERY different from other dystopia books. I wish we had gotten a little more detail about it though because all we know is that the cities are in theses domes and everything has copyrights. I'm a fan of knowing why. Why did they even need the domes if they were able to live outside it? Or could they live outside? We don't really know.

The plot was pretty typical for a dystopia book. There's a corrupt government and there's a kind of revolt happening. There were areas where I thought the plot could have gone more smoothly because it felt like it jumped around randomly sometimes. Certain scenes were too long and others too short so it didn't have a nice flow to it like it should have. It wasn't a bad plot though, there were just some parts where I got bored.

My biggest issue with this book was the main character. I didn't like her AT ALL and I couldn't connect with her which made the book hard to read. I just found it really annoying how she started this whole revolution and she had no reason for it. The book is about what happens when she decided not to talk but she just kind of does it. There's no reasoning behind why she doesn't want to (either that or it wasn't explained very well why because I totally missed it). All these people start to follow her lead and then look to her for guidance and she does nothing. That's pretty much all she does the whole book, nothing. She just looks stupidly at people when they talk to her and hangs around other people. It just drove me crazy.

Even though I had some issues with the book I think I'd still recommend it. I was getting tired of reading the same dystopian plots over and over but this one was a little different and I really appreciated that.

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