“It’s hard to be the person who gets left behind, and never the person who gets to do the leaving.”
― Alexandra Bracken, In Time
Book Title: In Time
Author: Alexandra Bracken
Length: 100 pages
Genre: Dystopian, Fiction, YA
My Rating: 4.5/5
Age Rating: 13-14+
Content Notes: Strong and mild language, crude jokes and innuendo, emotional themes, grief, trauma, mentions of suicide, death, violence and gore, abandonment, forced institutionalization, kidnapping and trafficking of children
“The real problem is Mom and the rest of the people in this town don’t think big. They’re the kind of folks who are too satisfied with the small hand life’s dealt to think that a bigger pot might be out there.”
― Alexandra Bracken, In Time
Book Synopsis:
Gabe’s life has been devastated in the wake of the economic crash. The only option left for someone like him to escape his tragic past is to leave his small town behind and to attempt to become a skiptracer. This already almost impossible task is made all the more difficult by his first score, a young girl who won’t speak, but who changes his life in ways he could never imagine.
My Review:
This book comes right after the first book in “The Darkest Minds” series, and I read it because I’m extremely dedicated to this series and need to read everything in it, in order.
This book follows an entirely new character. If I’m being honest, I really didn’t like him when I started the book, but it was really cool to watch his transformation, and I ended up really liking him, if only the ending was different…
In terms of content, this book was definitely more intense than the first book in the series. There was a fair amount of swearing, most of which included the f-word. And there was some innuendo and crude jokes, though there were no actual explicit scenes since there wasn’t any romance in this book. Along with that, there was also violence and gore, death, grief, emotional themes, mentions of suicide, trauma, and abandonment, all of which involve children. Not to mention, the main character and lots of others in the book are being paid to kidnap and traffic kids because the government pays them to do so.
So overall, I would say this book would still be okay for a mature 13-year-old, as long as they are prepared that this book was a bit more intense than the first in the series. Though, I do think this book would be better for 14+.
Overall, this book was a great way to learn more about the world and see more of the characters that you build such a connection to in the first book. It was definitely a sad read, and it left me emotionally wrecked after I finished it, but I’m figuring out that’s just what happens with this series.
Happy Reading,
Ava
*This novela isn’t it’s own book, it’s located in a collection of short stories called Through the Dark: Click this Link to check it out
Click this Link to check out the first book in the series “The Darkest Minds”
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