Anne is his golden child, always hanging on his every word, completely sucked into the unbalanced world he and his associates are determined to create.

Their father Malcolm helps create the rules and wants to ensure his family take the responsibilities of maintaining their Q scores high seriously so he can save face. With monthly tests to help calculate their individual Q scores children across the country are just one wrong answer away from being demoted to a lower tier school and in the worst case scenario being banished to one of the state schools to live away from their family. Instead, teachers can focus on the gifted.Įlena tells herself it’s not about eugenics, not really, but when one of her daughters scores lower than expected and is taken away, she intentionally fails her own test to go with her.īut what Elena discovers is far more terrifying than she ever imagined…Įlena is mother to two girls, Anne a high flying achiever and Freddie an anxious student who struggles to keep her head above the academic tide. Now everyone must undergo routine tests for their quotient, Q, and any children who don’t measure up are placed into new government schools.

A good thing, since the recent mandate that’s swept the country is all about perfection. Her daughters are exactly like her: beautiful, ambitious, and perfect.

About The BookĮlena Fairchild is a teacher at one of the state’s new elite schools. The synopsis really piqued my interest and I am sharing my thoughts in today’s blog as part of the Blogger Day celebrating it’s publication. Now I’m not one of those people that write off author’s work based on one book so when the folks over at HQ Stories asked me if I’d like to review Christina’s new book Q due for release tomorrow, I readily agreed. Unfortunately for me although I did enjoy it, I felt slightly let down by the execution of the story which I put solely down to my heightened expectations. Like many I couldn’t wait to read Christina Dalcher’s much hyped novel VOX as it seemed the book community couldn’t get enough of it. **We were gifted a copy of this book in return for an honest review.

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