Lynnie 
dystopian, sci-fi
It turns out, some authors transition away from
YA writing more readily than others but Veronica Roth is not one of
them. If I had not known that adults were supposed to be the target
audience for her newest novel, Poster Girl, I would have thought it was
another addition to her dystopian YA oeuvre. There really isn't anything
in this novel that couldn't be in any of her other books- there is one
somewhat chaste sex scene, but I don't think it would even make the current
round of book banners blush. All that said, I really enjoyed Poster
Girl. Roth did an impressive amount of world-building in a short amount
of time and I found myself eager to come back and find out what was
going to happen.
In an interesting twist on the standard dystopian plot, Poster Girl looks at what happens to society after the dystopian overlords - in this case, the Delegation - falls to the revolution. The Delegation's leaders and their families are imprisoned in a walled off section of Seattle known as the Aperture. Given an opportunity to earn her freedom from a life spent behind walls, Sonya was an interesting character to follow between the insular world she's been sentenced to spend the rest of her days in and has grown to accept, and her desire to be free and learn the truth about her family's past.
In an interesting twist on the standard dystopian plot, Poster Girl looks at what happens to society after the dystopian overlords - in this case, the Delegation - falls to the revolution. The Delegation's leaders and their families are imprisoned in a walled off section of Seattle known as the Aperture. Given an opportunity to earn her freedom from a life spent behind walls, Sonya was an interesting character to follow between the insular world she's been sentenced to spend the rest of her days in and has grown to accept, and her desire to be free and learn the truth about her family's past.
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