Today @KirkusReviews...
...I wrote about Suzanne Young's The Program. Which I enjoyed quite a lot, despite my ongoing case of Dystopian Overload:
So, fair or not, as it has all three annoyingly ubiquitous elements of almost every other recent entrant into the YA dystopian ring—in this case, 17-year-old Sloane fights a system that snaps up teens seen as suicide risks and wipes all of their painful memories, turning them into khaki-and-button-down-wearing Stepford teens—Suzanne Young’s The Program had to wage a seriously uphill battle to succeed in winning me over.
And here’s the thing: it did.