Candor

Welcome to Candor, a town where people are controlled by messages put into their brain. The streets are pristine, no one is ever mean and there isn’t one spot of graffiti, the messages make sure of that. Oscar Banks has found a way to stay real using his own counter messages. Helping people to escape. His plan goes perfectly until he meets a girl, Nia Silva. He wants her to stay in Candor but has to work hard to stop her from falling to the messages. . .

Pam Bachorz has a way of making the characters feel real like there actually are automatons created by the messages around you. The scenes Pam is particularly good at writing are tense scenes. The ideas in this book are of a society so different from ours where people would give up their own thoughts, their own originality and freedom to feel safe and lose all their imperfections. Also there is something for everyone in this book, a bit of romance, some good action but mostly it is a deeply chilling psychological thriller. My favourite character is Oscar Banks because I feel like I can relate to him. The story kept me guessing about what was going to happen next and was so much of a page turner that it only took a couple of sittings before I had read the whole book!

This book will definitely stay with you long after the last page. I recommend this to anyone that can get their hands on it. But more specifically teens and young adults of both sexes. I rate this book 5/5.