Conform

This one feels like a mashup between Love is Blind, The Handmaid’s Tale, and The Hunger Games. Emeline has been a lifelong outcast. She spends her days in the basement of her city’s capitol building, where she marks ancient artworks for destruction. It is centuries after a horrible war where humanity was nearly decimated. Now, the city thrives under the rule of a group called The Illum. The population’s health is constantly monitored, and procreation contracts are take seriously. Meanwhile, Emeline is twenty seven and waiting for the MIND device (a health monitoring chip that is embedded into everyone’s wrist to mark her ready for a mate. A mate could change everything for her: elevating her status within society, giving her new opportunities. When the unthinkable happens (for the first time in years, an Illum takes a mate–and he chooses Eveline), her whole world is changed and she is thrust into a lifestyle of parties and fancy courtship rituals. Meanwhile, Emeline finds herself torn between two men: there is also Hal, one of the leaders of an underground resistance. As Emeline draws closer to both men, she must question everything and decide which side she is on. This is fun, unputdownable, and has me so excited for a sequel!