Breeder by K.B. Hoyle
Genre: Fiction: Dystopian
ISBN
e-book: 978-1-61213-292-1
~~SUMMARY~~
Everything
about Seventeen’s life is perfect, from her genetics, to her home in Sanctuary, to her status as a
Breeder in the Unified World Order. But all that changes when she meets a rogue
Enforcer named Pax, who infiltrates Sanctuary and targets her for extraction
from the Controlled Repopulation Program. Pax seems to know a little too much
about her, and he plants dangerous doubts in her mind that accuse Sanctuary of
hiding a dark secret, and that cause Seventeen to question everything she’s
ever known.
When
Seventeen’s life is threatened, she has little choice but to run away
from Sanctuary with Pax. But for Breeders, contact with men is forbidden by
law, and even the simple act of taking Pax’s
hand is treason.
Mired
in confusion, Seventeen travels with Pax to the outside world and takes the
name Pria, the identity of her childhood. But she is far from certain she’s
made the right decision when they discover an entire community of people who
should no longer exist.
Seventeen,
now Pria, is thrust into a position as a key player in a dangerous bid to bring
down the Unified World Order. Meanwhile, Pax’s
attachment to her and her growing attraction to him contribute to the
ever-growing mysteries in her life.
Pria’s
journey from a sheltered, naïve Breeder to a rebel agent requires
not only external transformation but self-discovery. As her world crumbles,
Pria must decide who she is and what she really believes.
But
the truth comes at a cost, and uncovering it will require a greater treason
than she could ever have imagined.
~~Guest Post
Do the characters all come to you at the same time, or do some
of them come to you as you write?
For Breeder,
I actually planned out far more characters than made it into the book.
Obviously my main characters were set long before I started writing, and all of
them made it in, but there are several characters I came up with as side
characters who were available for me to use, or not use, as needed. I used
some, but the storyline didn’t give me space to adequately introduce them all
in this first book, so that just means I already have a bank of characters to
choose from to people the sidelines in book 2, Criminal. Even with all
my planning and extra characters, though, there will always be times when I’m
writing where I realize I really need another character, a character I haven’t
created yet, to play a role and/or fill a plot hole, so I do create some here
and there as I go along. I think most novelists probably experience that,
though. When you’ve created a new world, you always have to ask yourself as you’re
going along, “Who might I meet in a place like this?” Some of the best
characters come into being that way.
~~My Review~~
Seventeen is a Breeder in the Unified World Order and lives at Sanctuary. A Breeder is what they call the females that live at Sanctuary. Seventeen and all of the other girls at Sanctuary are a part of the Controlled Repopulation Program. The girls are used to carrier babies, perfect babies. The Unified World Order is striving for a utopia world; a perfect society. They give the girls meds to keep them healthy enough to carry a baby. They also make them eat like six meals a day and work out to stay in shape and in good condition to carry a child. The Sanctuary is the only home that any of these girls remember.
One day Seventeen is sent to the infirmary for a procedure
which only means that she was pregnant when they put her to sleep but wasn’t
when she woke up. While she was in
having her procedure done she saw a man but when she tried to tell Mother she
didn’t believe her. It is illegal for Seventeen or any of the girls to come in
contact with a man. So unfortunately no one believed her when she tried to tell
them; which was a good thing for her in the long run. After she lost her baby
and she was returned back to her room and back into population with the other
girls Seventeen became curious about a lot of things that was going on at the
Sanctuary. She was seeing things that no
one else was seeing or at least that was what they were telling her. Being
curious and inquisitive about certain things was a very bad idea and could get
you into a lot of trouble.
Seventeen started asking more and more questions until
finally Mother instructed the nurses to take care of her. But luckily the man
that she had seen before saw her and knew what they were going to do to her so
he explained to her what they were going to do and talked her into leaving with
him. Seventeen was so surprise when she saw what was outside the walls of the
Sanctuary. She learned that what she had been taught was wrong and that the
outside was nothing like what she was told.
Pax explained to her about the outside world and that there was
other people out there that were surviving on their own without the help of the
Sanctuary or the Unified World Order. Seventeen decides that she wants a name too
like Pax she doesn’t want to be just a number anymore she wants to be somebody.
So she calls herself Pria, a name that she was given when she was a child. The
only way that Pax and Pria could survive out in this new world was to find
other people or humans like them, who lived together as a group so they could survive
in this new world.
Pria may be a naïve girl in the beginning but she learns
real quick how to survive. As when any group of people there are good and bad.
And some of the people in this group that Pax and Pria meet up with are not
very good people and they want to hurt Pria but Pax will do whatever he has to;
to keep her safe. Pria would do the same for Pax as well. They got to know each
other pretty well on their little journey to find this group of survivors. But
finding a new home and people they can trust may be more than Pax or Pria can
handle. Once they find out what they want Pria to do just may cost them their
lives and their freedom.
I have been hooked on dystopian books this year and I have
tried to read everyone I could get my hands on. Breeder was an amazing story
and one h3ll of a good read. I loved the world that the author built for
Sanctuary and the world outside of there. I loved all of the characters or most
all of them anyways. Pax and Pria were my two favorite characters. But I did
come to like Henri and his sister Celine both of them were real good people and
new more about Pria than she knew they knew. Henri and Celine they looked out
for Pria just as close as or closer than Pax because they knew the people
better in their group.
If you love reading dystopian books the Breeder is one book
you don’t won’t to miss out on. It will take a hold of you from the very first
word and you won’t want to put it down to take a bathroom break. Oh wait if you
are like me where now days we have different devices that we can take with us
where ever we go and read. I still like having a paperback or hardback book you
can carry them with you too but with all the new devices that we have now days
you can carry more than one book with you. Oh and with a phone you can take it
with you to a friend or family member’s house and you just might have a need to
go to the bathroom a lot that is if the book is good. Breeder is one of those
books that you will be glad that you have an eBook.
~~ABOUT THE AUTHOR~~
K.B. Hoyle is a bestselling author, a public speaker, a creative writing instructor,
and a classical history teacher who uses her knowledge of the ancient and
medieval worlds to pen speculative and fantasy tales for people of all ages.
She has been married since the age of twenty to the love of her life, with whom
she has four wonderful children. Find out more about her at
www.kbhoyle.com.
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Praise for Breeder
"Breeder
was anything but a let down. The characters were extremely well written, making
me able to empathize with Pria and Pax and the situation they find themselves
in. I kept turning the pages because I just had to find out what happened to
these people and, to my shock, finished the book in a day! "
- Angela Goodreads Review
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