Saturday, April 13, 2013

Review: The Breeders By Katie French




The Breeders

Title: The Breeders

Author:

Published: August 1st 2012

Fromat: Kindle Edition

Pages: 276










BOOK DESCRIPTION

The Breeders




Sixteen-year-old Riley Meemick is one of the world's last free girls. When Riley was born, her mother escaped the Breeders, the group of doctors using cruel experiments to bolster the dwindling human race. Her parents do everything possible to keep her from their clutches-- moving from one desolate farm after another to escape the Breeders' long reach. The Breeders control everything- the local war lords, the remaining factories, the fuel. They have unchecked power in this lawless society. And they're hunting Riley.

When the local Sheriff abducts the adult members of her family and hands her mother over to the Breeders, Riley and her eight-year-old brother, Ethan, hiding in a shelter, are left to starve. Then Clay arrives, the handsome gunslinger who seems determined to help to make up for past sins. The problem is Clay thinks Riley is a bender-- a genderless mutation, neither male nor female. As Riley's affection for Clay grows she wonders can she trust Clay with her secret and risk her freedom?

The three embark on a journey across the scarred remains of New Mexico-- escaping the Riders who use human sacrifice to appease their Good Mother, various men scrambling for luck, and a deranged lone survivor of a plague. When Riley is shot and forced into the Breeder's hospital, she learns the horrible fate of her mother—a fate she'll share unless she can find a way out.




MY REVIEW

The Breeders




Riley Meemick is a sixteen year old girl who lives in a world that is almost extinct of females. Something happened a long time ago that caused very few females to be born. Almost all of the babies that are being born are male. Riley's family had moved from town to town her entire life. Riley always dresses as a boy. If the breeders ever found out that she was a girl they would take her away to live in a hospital. This hospital is where they take all the females if they are of breeding age.

The people who work at the hospital will take girls anyway they can get them. They don't care if they are taken against their will or not. All they want with them is to impregnate them and once the baby is born they take it away from the mother and then the process is started all over again and again until they are past the breeding stage. When the females become too old to have babies they are then put in the nursery to take care of all the babies that are born.

Riley's step-father, Arn is the only one that ever goes into town to trade for food and supplies that they need. One day Arn goes into town for supplies but he never returns. Riley, her mother, her aunt and eight year old brother are very upset and have no idea what to do. Riley knows that someone will eventually have to do something if he doesn't come back. They will run out of supplies and food. Riley decides that she is going into town to find out what happen to Arn. She doesn't tell her mother or aunt because she knows they will try and stop her.

Riley makes it to town and finds Arn has been arrested. She gets him out of jail with the help of the sheriff's son, Clay. No one figures out that Reily is a girl they all think that she is a bender. I know you are probably asking yourself now what a bender is? Well a bender is someone who is neither male nor female.

Riley and Arn make it back home without any problems but then sometime later the breeders show up at their home looking for females. Riley's family sends her and Ethan, her little brother to the cellar to hide. Riley tries to get out but Clay sees her and locks them in. When they finally get out the breeders have left and their parents and aunt are nowhere to be seen. The breeders took her mother and Riley is determined to find her and bring her back.

Riley sets on a dangerous journey to find her mother. She doesn't trust anyone because if they find out she is a girl they will sell her to the highest bidder who will then take her to the hospital where they she will become a breeder. She does learn to trust Clay as much as she can or has too. Clay turns out not to be the person Riley thought he was. She thinks he is just like everyone else and will turn her in at the right time and place. But she finds out later that this is not the case. Clay knows what the breeders are doing to all the female is wrong. Clay learns to care a lot for Riley and Ethan and will do anything to protect them. Riley soon finds out that his heart is in the right place.

Will Clay find out that Riley is a girl and not a bender? Will he still like her or will he be mad at her for not telling him the truth? Or will he be relieved that she is a girl? Will they find her mother? If they do find her can they save her? I know there are a lot of questions with no answers. To find out the answers you will just have to read The Breeders for yourself. If you are into dystopian novels then you are going to love The Breeders. I hope that Katie French has plans for a second book. I hope that she plans on writing more novels I would love to read more of her work.




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