Tuesday, June 20, 2017

Review: Lux and Lies by Meg Collet @CollettMeg @XpressoTours


Lux and Lies
Meg Collett
(Whitebird, #1)
Publication date: May 2nd 2017
Genres: Science Fiction, Thriller, Young Adult

Mr. Robot meets UnReal in a story of celebrities and anarchists, reality shows and evil corporations, romance and self-discovery.


Nineteen-year-old Wren Iver is nothing more than a dying girl with cancer, but when megastar Sloan Lux dies right before filming starts on the year’s most anticipated reality show, producers scramble to secretly replace her—with Wren. She’s swept into Hollywood and promised a cure by VidaCorp, the nation’s richest bioengineering corporation, for simply replacing Lux. It’s a deal Wren can’t refuse.


The decision could get her killed, because she isn’t the only cast member with ulterior motives


The Whitebirds, a social anarchist group, has infiltrated the show, and they’ll stop at nothing to use Sloane Lux’s fame to derail VidaCorp’s efforts to legalize their controversial, life-changing drug—a drug that might kill more people than it saves. Caught in the middle of a game between a powerful corporation and ruthless anarchist group, Wren will do anything to survive.


Will Wren secure the drug she needs to survive, or will she become another casualty in the anarchists’ fight against VidaCorp?



My Review:

Wren Iver is a young girl who is living life one day at a time just trying to survive behind the walls of Sunshine Heights and has never been on the other side where all the rich people live. Like everyone else in Sunshine Heights Wren dreams of being able to walk outside the gates and breathing the clean air and drinking the clean water on the other side. But she knows that this will never happen. But a girl can dream, right? Wren also dreams of being able to afford a new pill that would cure her cancer when it is released in the United States.

One day when Wren and her friend Mak is on their way to work they are stopped by this guy who just happens to work for VidaCorp a big pharmaceutical company who promises her a cure for her cancer if she will pretend to be a big Hollywood star Sloan Lux. Sloan Lux is a big star in a tv reality show that is run by VidaCorp and you see Sloan passed away recently and they want Wren to replace her. They Want Wren to pretend to be Sloan. With Sloan being the star of the show and her being dead and if everyone finds out  it would be canceled which is something they don’t want to happen; it could cost them so much more than money.

Wren agrees to be Sloan but when she arrives she soon learns about this group of people the Whitebirds are trying to overthrow the government and has infiltrated the tv show. Wren is asked to help find out who the culprit is. Wren has lot more on her plate than she could ever have imagined. She doesn’t know who to trust when the truth starts to come out.

Who is right VidaCorp or the Whitebirds? Is Wren playing on the right side? What it the right side? When the truth is out whose side will Wren choose? Will it cost her more than her life? What is a girl to do? What would you do to save your life?


In the beginning Wren is a shy, timid kind of person but by the end of the book when she started to figure things out some what she started toughing up a little bit. I can’t wait to read more of Wren’s story as well as Sloan’s and Mak’s and Roman’s. Oh and what about Bode and Hazen? 



Author Bio:
Meg Collett is from the hills of Tennessee where the cell phone service is a blessing and functioning internet is a myth of epic proportions. She and her husband live in a tiny house with three dogs and not enough couches. She’s the author of the bestselling Fear University series, the End of Days trilogy, and the Canaan Island novels. Find out more at her website www.megcollett.com. 

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