Vices

by Amy Solus

In a grim, believable future, Aidan is alone. She's had to wander for the past five years. The world has been overturned, a consequence of a society unwilling to see that they had lost their freedom a long time ago. The world's governments have united to turn a world of billions into a world of less that ten million. With no one to turn to, Aidan has been forced to live a life of solitude, until she finds herself in a trap set by the government. She is captured and brought to a prison for the nation's excess, those who were supposed to die in the End, but survived.Things are bleak, but she finds herself in the company of new allies. Are they the key to escape? But at what cost?Vices is a tale of loss and doing everything in your power to take back what was once yours.

219 pages, Kindle Edition

First published October 1, 2012

Reviews

[Terri · Rating 3 out of 5]

Aidan is one of the survivors of the Slay, when the governments of the world united and killed off the undesirables of the planet (going from billions to just a few million). The survivors live a rough existence and Aidan is captured and imprisoned where life is brutal and dangerous. The government and its agents have no sense of value in people and their lives - they are simply to be exterminated. It is a cruel world, but she finds a few others resisting and creating a community of survivors to fight the evil system and protect each other. Strong characters and a scary concept based on a government with no empathy or value for life, only their own power and needs which seems rather familiar today.