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Summary

A dystopian series about young woman who is convinced she is about to die.

Stats

Genre: YA (16+) dystopian (future world gone wrong)

Series length: Three books

Violence: Strong violence

Magic/Supernatural: Mostly unexplained technology

Romance: Moderate 

Christian/spiritual element: Overt allegorical elements

Recommendation: Those who enjoy intensely plotted, slightly dark-edged dystopian stories
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Hunger Games

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Opening Lines:

There was once a time when only God knew the day you'd die. 

At least that's what they tell me. I wasn't alive then--back when life bore adventure and death held surprise. I guess God decided to share the coveted knowledge. Either that, or we stole it from Him. Personally, I think He just gave the world what it thought it wanted: control. 

My thin rectangular Clock sits on the carved shelf across the room, clicking its red digital numbers--red like blood. Today marks the first day of my last year alive.

A Time to Die (Out of Time, Book 1)
by Nadine Brandes

How would you live if you knew the day you'd die?

Three hundred sixty-four days, seven hours, and sixteen--no, fifteen--seconds left to live. Like everyone else on the east side of the Wall, Parvin Blackwater has a clock counting down the days until her death. At only seventeen, she has one year left. When the authorities find out she has been illegally sharing a clock with her twin brother, she is cast through the Wall--her people's death sentence. What she finds on the other side about the world, about God, and about herself changes Parvin forever and might just save her people. If she can get the word to them before her time runs out.  

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I've been robbed of my death.

A date was set, a coffin prepared, and a grzve dug in the earth, yet I breathe against my own will as my brother is lowered six feet down. The smooth wood coffin displays the best of Father's carpentry skill. Did he originally carve it for me?

Enforcers surround the gravesite--black human pillars lined with bullets, staring straight ahead. Probably making sure I don't run.

​Solomon Hawke is not among them.

A Time to Speak (Out of Time, Book 2)
by Nadine Brandes

What happens when you live longer than you wanted to?

Parvin Blackwater wanted to die, but now she's being called to be a leader. The only problem is, no one wants to follow.

The Council uses Jude's Clock-matching invention to force "new-and-improved" Clocks on the public. Those who can't afford one are packed into boxcars like cattle and used for the Council's purposes.

Parvin and Hawke find themselves on a cargo ship of Radicals headed out to sea. What will the Council do to them? And why are people suddenly dying before their Clocks have zeroed-out?

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I wake in a coffin. 

The beep of my own flatline is fresh in my memory. What's going on? Where am I? Why am I . . . not dead?

My arms press against walls of wood. My hot breath rebounds off the underside of the coffin lid, hitting my face. Flashes. Glimpses of memories. I can't remember. Something happened to me--something traumatic. Something powerful. My emotions are drained, but I can't pinpoint why I'm here.

ARISE.

A Time to Rise (Out of Time, Book 3)
by Nadine Brandes

What more can you sacrifice than your life?

Parvin Blackwater is dead.

At least that's what the Council--and the world--thinks. But her sacrifice tore down part of the Wall long enough to stir up hope and rebellion in the people. Now she will rise again. Strong, free, and fearless. 

Parvin and Solomon must uncover the mysterious clues that Jude left behind in order to destroy the projected Wall once and for all. Meanwhile, the Council schemes to new levels of technology in its attempts to keep the people contained. Can a one-handed Radical and a scarred ex-Enforcer really bring shalom to the world?