Number Games is a great book! It starts off with a group of kids that have to graduate to adulthood but receiving a rating on ... their forehead, of all places, for the whole world too see. The book takes place in the new America where one of the biggest triggers of war is outlawed... food. Everyone takes nutrition supplement pills, the higher your rating the better your pill. The higher your rating, the better your life. In the slums of the city, in a corner that the lowest class the "reds", called this because their low number is red rather then the yellow, green and orange, smuggle food for many reasons. Many people believe that the laws are wrong, but many say nothing and others believe that it makes life better, more organized and necessary.
So the reds smuggle food with a select few upper class people and try not to get sent to a concentration camp, with the help of rogue people of clans that chose to live out side of NORA the new America.
The reasons to smuggle? Because food is better then pills, the pills the poor are given suck, and because many are reformed rogue clan members "integrated" into society for civilized, salvaging reasons. The small sliver of hope for anyone unhappy with their life is to work really hard, get noticed for it, and hopefully your rating will increase electronically through that plate under your forehead.... but the ratings work both ways. Bad behavior or just a decreasing need in your services as the empress finds out, can decrease your number and change your whole life.Violators face electric shocks through a tag bracelet and some just disappear, NORA has no tolerance for violators and no one cares about a red anyway.
Here enters a girl named Treena, who pushes herself to succeed at everything in order to get a good number rating in order to have the life everyone dreams of. She does it for herself, her mother and most importantly to her at the time her boyfriend. But on rating day the whole auditorium is shocked to see that while her boyfriend has the highest rating ever seen in history, surpassing the Empress, she receives one of the lowest rating in history and her total life and dreams is destroyed. Everyone assumes that low ratings are given righteously and she is soon outcast and people believe she has done something hideously wrong in order to be placed with the lowest people in the domain. Most never make it to the slums and just jump off the tallest building with shame.
Treena soon finds out that while her mother and father are in the higher levels her real father was in fact a rebel which caused her to get a low rating. A rogue man that refused to bow down to a pyramid new order. Teena decides to take matters into her own hands and chases after the one person she thinks can help her the empress, but she has her own agenda for Treena. After being tricked into a suicide mission Treena starts to doubt what her beliefs and learns that what she thought she knew and what she thought was right, was totally wrong. As Treena struggles with trying to return to a life she had and finding the truth about what is really going on, she finds unlikely Alias, a childhood friend who is in fact a smuggler and a labyrinth of trues and lies that will make you turn pages lost in a new land where Treena tries to find a real, true perfect world.... or just tries to make it back home with her eyes wide shut....
This is book one in a new series so don't get left behind!
You can purchase this book at Amazon.com for $2.99 through Kindle or for $13.99 as a paperback :
Number Game by Rebecca Rode
I held a contest on Instagram for a ecopy of this ebook under aquietplace4mom, the winner of this contest was mellodyflorence .
I received a copy of this ebook in exchange for an honest review.
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