What if part of the earth had broken off and was floating in the sky? What if the people there thought Earth was something dangerous? What if you had no option? Morgan Stockhour has a caring mother and father. Her older brother is married and lives in the same apartment house. Her father has a job as a police man for Internment and her brother is a writer. That is on the surface. Beneath public perception Morgan is a troubled young lady. Her brother jumped off the Edge and now is blind. Her father and mother have been keeping secrets and it may cost Morgan her life.
Fortunately Morgan has a betrothed, Basil who understands Morgan better than herself. Morgan also has a best friend Pen, short for Margaret. She has listened to Morgan's thoughts and has advised her to forget them. "It is for the best. You don't want to be singled out." Then the unthinkable happens. A murder with the body left in a public place. Then a second one and the entire city is fearful and wondering where their innocence has gone. Morgan meets the accused and she believes he is innocent. In questioning what the government is doing, Morgan discovers an underground movement and it changes her life and her friends forever.
This wasn't an easy novel to get into. I had trouble following the narrator and fixing the time and place. That could have been a problem with the author and/or narrator but after the second disc I was considering stopping. I wasn't buying Morgan's innocent act and her voice was a bit annoying. I actually enjoyed her friend Pen a lot more. There was a lot going on in that young lady's head and I wanted to know more about her and what made Pen tick. I wasn't too thrilled with the young men. They seemed to be set dressing but maybe that will change in the next book. This is an interesting difference to all the dark dystopian young adult out there. It is a perfect society that does actually work but the existence of the Edge seems to undermine that said perfect society.
Six Degrees of Reading: MILA 2.0 by Debra Driza, Red Queen by Victoria Areyard, Life As We Knew It by Susan Beth Pfeffer.
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