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Author: Margaret Peterson Haddix
Genre: Dystopian, YA
Rating: 3/5
# pages: 240
Date read: July, 2012
Matthias, an illegal third child, is caught in the cross fire between rebels and the Population Police. When he unwittingly saves a Population Police officer, Matthias is brought to Population Police headquarters to train as an officer himself. There he meets Nina, another third-born who enlists his help in a plot to undermine the Population Police. But Matthias is under constant scrutiny, and he has no idea whom he can trust. What can one boy do against a wicked bureaucracy?
It gets tricky trying to find new things to write about this series. Still good, still entertaining, but the plot is getting thinner and thinner... Probably a good thing that the next is the last.
Lee/Luke was mentioned all of twice in this book! I missed him :(