BOOK TOUR x @LoveBooksTours - The Community by Heidi Visser

How much control is too much?

The world has ended, but humanity remains. After a solar flare decimated the earth, the survivors gather under the strict regime of The Community so they can cling onto life while they rebuild. Every aspect of life is controlled - from food rations, to fertility, even your social standing is decided through a structured and detailed set of levels.

Nora is level 4, but soon she's going to climb the ladder - she's so close to achieving as perfect a life as possible in a dystopian hellscape. She has a great job in The Community, she's engaged and her wedding is going to be the event that opens up so many doors for her. But now, she's pregnant. And she is most definitely not allowed to be pregnant right now.

Nora knows it's wrong, she knows The Community will never allow this - but she will never be able to escape their shadow until she finds out what's truly hiding the dark.

For fans of the Handmaids Tale, The Hunger Games and The 100, this dystopian nightmare is one that will definitely haunt your mind for a long time after the last page is turned. The world building is rich and hauntingly vivid, making such a different and broken world feel unsettling familiar.

Nora was one of those characters that wouldn't be out of place in an action movie - she's strong and isn't afraid to fight for those she loves, no matter how scared or unsure she is.

If you missed the glaring clue on the cover, this book has a deeply uncomfortable focus on womanhood and femininity - and the terrifying lack of female autonomy and control women experience even today. It finds the most sinister parts of real life, and humanity, and shows us a terrifying turn of events that might just be possible should the wrong things happen at the wrong time. As well as speculating on the truths of classism and environmental issues.

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Thank you to Love Books Tours and Heidi Visser for inviting me to take part in this tour. I was gifted an advanced reviewers copy of this title in return for an honest review.

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