Really enjoyed this book! I'm invested in the characters and plot. It takes place in an alternate England, a dystopian world where every one in England - except the Equals - must serve ten years of servitude (called slavedays) before becoming a full citizen. Until then certain good jobs are unavailable, you can't own a home and can't travel abroad. Slavedays can be served at any time, with most commoners serving them when they are much older and have lived some of their lives. But one family choses to serve their days as a family, or rather the parents and older sister decide for Luke, 16 and Daisy, 10. What they don't understand is that once they begin to serve their slavedays they have entered a state of non legal personhood. They are no longer people and have no rights.
The Equals are aristocrats with magical gifts. Some are nice and some aren't.
Some people involved with the Equals seem to disappear. Some Equals treat those serving under them as nothing more than chattel or worse. If you don't serve the Equals then you serve in slavetowns, industrial zones in the cities. Where its dirty, smelly, crowded, etc. A place where the security force is mean.
This is a promising volume one in a series. Looking forward to reading the next two.
The Equals are aristocrats with magical gifts. Some are nice and some aren't.
Some people involved with the Equals seem to disappear. Some Equals treat those serving under them as nothing more than chattel or worse. If you don't serve the Equals then you serve in slavetowns, industrial zones in the cities. Where its dirty, smelly, crowded, etc. A place where the security force is mean.
This is a promising volume one in a series. Looking forward to reading the next two.
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