The Numbered

by bnlfan

Imagine the second you're born, a consultant removes you from your mother's grasp and runs a battery of genetic and physiological tests on you. Thirty minutes later they give you a score out of one hundred which denotes your level of perfection. If your score is above eighty and you work hard to maintain that score you will have a charmed life; well-fed, well-rewarded, spoiled. But fall below eighty and you're labelled Flawed, and life will not be so kind.

Hannah is adopted by a Flawed family when her birth parents choose their social standing over their daughter and endure a life of struggle, hunger and service. One day Hannah is escorted to the regional government office and told that the Consultant who delivered her, who labelled her Flawed got it wrong! Now, she is being relocated back to her birth parents, to live as one of the Ninety-Five- all medically and legally judged as perfect. Entering this new life Hannah has an impossible decision to make which puts not only hers but the lives of everyone she cares about at great risk.

"The Numbered- where no one wants to be number one".

338 pages, ebook

Published February 1, 2013

Reviews

[Becky · Rating 4 out of 5]

The jumps between characters are quite confusing for a while but it all makes sense once it comes together. The ending was definitely unexpected and will make you cry