Pleasure In The Pages: Avoidables

Book Description:

This serial is dedicated to all those that feel discriminated against because of the way they look. You are beautiful!

My name is Hope and I'd like to introduce you to our world. Earth is full of two races, the Avoidables and Perfects. I'm an Avoidable because I only have one arm. I was born that way apparently. Because of my defect, my mother had to move to the Lower Side. The Perfects are humans that have no physical flaws. They live in luxury, while we live in filth.

Avoidables have defects ranging from looks to unexplained gifts. Some of us are half breeds. Dragons and animals were known to have bred with the human race thousands of years ago. We all live in cities, usually divided in two. The Perfects live on the Upper Side, while the Avoidables inhabit the Lower Side. We've been consumed by hate for a race that rejects us so heartlessly. We've become dangerous.

I like to sneak over to their side sometimes. It's fun to watch how they live. To watch their perfect gorgeous faces react to the one armed freak. Until I met Jason anyway. He ignored the fact that I had one arm, even daring to touch my shoulder stub. What happened when he did, blew my mind. I was no longer an ugly Avoidable. I was much, much better than any Perfect.

I got this book as freebie find. When I first started to read it, I wasn't sure what to make of it. It was fast paced and I really was confused to what the heck was going on. But while I kept reading, it became clear to me what the book was about. It had a sense of a love story on the rise, but it was more than that.

It was poignant, eloquently lovely and powerful in it's words. It truly did make an impact on me. How people perceive you, how people can be judgmental and what the effects of those judgments can do to someone. It brought tears to my eyes, knowing that even though this was set in the future, there is a lot of truth in it in this day and age.

There are a lot of things going on in this first book, and you have to be careful to try and make sense of it. Like the character you feel a bit frustrated with it all. So many secrets yet untold, a lot of action unfolding right before your eyes. It was great! The end made me want to get the second one just to find out what happens. I highly recommend this book for a quick read, and then you have to follow it up with the second in the series. There, you will find more questions answered.