Deliver Me

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Women are groomed to become carriers of the next generation and those not chosen are assigned jobs as servants. Wynne is not chosen as a Carrier, but her best friend is. The novel then follows Wynne on her respective journey away from Odessa. With such cruel practices, I also thought there would be more about a resistance movement. Wynne was a relatable narrator and I felt for her as she tries to make sense of her life away from Odessa.

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The plot moved at a good pace and there was a lot of tension when Wynne found herself going against the rules of the society. Overall, Deliver Me is a good debut with thought-provoking themes. Nov 10, Makayla rated it liked it. Has a vibe kind of like the giver at the beginning. May 21, Pamela rated it did not like it. This book seems like a ripoff of The Handmaids Tale. Instead of Gilead it is the union and carriers in place of handmaidens. I like the story so far but I am still questioning where are the men.

Anika is definitely a spiteful witch. The fertility ceremony is exactly like the visits from the Commander. The relationship between Odessa and Wynne is way too familiar, friends should not know the every inch of your naked body. This is creepy and twisted, so what if they grew up together. Odessa is a r This book seems like a ripoff of The Handmaids Tale. Odessa is a raging bitch! Even the punishment or 'cleansing' is the same in both worlds.

This book is literally a carbon copy of The Handmaid's Tale, Margaret should sue for copyright infringement. One of the worst parts of this book is where they cut off all their hair and mutilate themselves. What the hell was that ending? It's not even a cliffhanger, the book just stops for no reason and there isn't even a second book in the series. You need to at least attempt to conclude the story and have some kind of resolution for the plot and characters. It's like the author got tired of writing and said I'm not finishing this thing, I don't care at all about the reader.

Jan 24, Kristin rated it it was ok Shelves: Typical teen dystopian story, nothing original. Mar 04, Kristin Blood,Sweat and Books rated it really liked it. Deliver Me tells the story of two girls Odessa and Wynne whose lives take very different turns when one is chosen as a breeder for the Union and the other is chosen as a worker who aides in their deliveries. However, upon completing the book I realized this isn't just some carbon copy repackaged for a new generation but instead a book that can stand on its own two feet one both unique yet Deliver Me tells the story of two girls Odessa and Wynne whose lives take very different turns when one is chosen as a breeder for the Union and the other is chosen as a worker who aides in their deliveries.

However, upon completing the book I realized this isn't just some carbon copy repackaged for a new generation but instead a book that can stand on its own two feet one both unique yet familiar. Deliver Me while both terrifying and tragic still showed that love and friendship can endure even in the darkest places.

One of the things I found most interesting about the plot is that the Dystopian world seemed to be self contained. We learn through a secondary character that the Union's grasp only reaches so far and that Women adhere to more traditional roles such as being Wives and Mothers not just baby factories to be used and tossed aside as the Union sees fit.

Why give up Freedom to Love? To think for yourself? I know the character mentions being a burden to those left but any reason why is left unsaid. I'm sort of thinking this character is being set up for grander things but only time and of course more books will tell. Another thing I really liked was how the story brought up such heavy handed topics like Nature vs.

Nurture, Free thinking vs. Conformity and Love vs. Deliver Me wasn't just a good book it was a smart book! Personally, I like when a book can entertain me and yet make the reader think about gender roles without feeling preachy. Seeing the state of things in the world today it's not impossible to imagine how easy it would be for a Society like this to take over if we didn't fight for the rights we so justly deserve, not just as Women, but, as equals in a society predominately and traditionally ruled by males. Lastly, I loved the characters.

Wynne is smart, compassionate, brave and loyal. She'll do what is right even if it comes at a great sacrifice to herself. I also loved the secondary characters such as the Head Nurse in the delivery unit who slowly opens up to Wynne about the cruelties suffered by the Carriers and that life isn't all roses and sunshine for them. The whole the Carrier must name the baby is weird though and I wish the story would've expanded on this more. Now even though I really enjoyed Deliver Me, I did find a few things lacking with the overall story.

First off, I felt that the story did lag a bit when Wynne joins up with Odessa in the back half of the book. I was really hoping to get a better understanding of life for the Carriers but instead everything is implied and not shown. Were told that the mysterious General favors Odessa and visits her whether or not she's fertile but the actual act of him visiting her is done off page. Also the Conceiving Ceremony wasn't quite clear to me.

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Were all the men taking turns with the girls during it Wynne mentions feeling someones thighs on her back as she knelt or were they just giving the girls a blessing during that time? I read that Chapter twice and still am not clear on the what was actually taking place. Secondly, I wanted to know more about the men who work in and live in the Union. The few we do see are either Generals, Magistrates or Prisoners. It would of been neat seeing how they were chosen to breed and how their lives differed than that of the women. The fact one of them could keep a dog as a pet makes me believe they have much more freedom but again since it isn't shown I could just be grasping at straws.

Final Thoughts Deliver Me was a great start to what I hope is a series. Could this be read as a stand alone? Sure, but I definitely feel that too many loose ends were left on the page for it to stay that way. Would I recommend Deliver Me? The story is fast paced, well written and definitely worth the read. All opinions are my own and I was not compensated in an which way for providing them.

Apr 18, Christianna Marks rated it really liked it Shelves: An Open Letter To Deliver Me, I didn't go into reading you thinking that you were going to be a book that swept me off my feet, in fact I didn't give it much thought, but now I can't stop thinking about you. You posed so many questions about the human condition and the quiet strength that we all have inside of us. You made me bawl my eyes out at one point and that doesn't happen very often.

You gave me this terrifying world and these characters that I adored. You gave me feminine, yet strong girl power and you touched on feminist issues without being obnoxious. You book, are going to be something I'll be thinking about for awhile. Birch has a writing style that will pull you right into the world that she's created. Her characters are ridiculously strong and well written.

You feel like they are people that you've known forever, which makes the reality of the things that are happening to them even more heart wrenching. Deliver Me isn't a sweet book by any means. It's brutal and it's dark and it's full of human conditioning. That being said, Birch manages to give us the story through the eyes of people who still hang on to hope. People who bend the status quo and see just how far they can push it.

This book is harrowing. Birch gives us this dystopian world that will remind readers of the Nazi concentration camps. The men and women are separated and placed into their own barracks. They have numbers tattooed onto their arms. Love and families aren't something you are supposed to know about.

And a few select girls seem like they get the best deal when they are chosen to be Carriers baby making machines. It's not pretty and it's actually pretty darn terrible. It'll leave you cringing at times, but it will also make you want to cheer for human resilience. The story is fundamentally about friendship. Wynne does have a moment where she meets a man, but this book isn't drenched in a typical love story, in fact it barely even dips its toes in.

Instead it's a story about Wynne and Odessa. They share this sisterly love that is huge and they've planned their lives out together as Carriers, but that doesn't go as planned. Once the girls are separated, Wynne builds strong and lasting relationships with most of the other women that come into her path. The relationships that Birch builds are wonderful and full of warmth, even though the circumstances surrounding them are harsh. Wynne is one tough cookie. The things that she sees and experience are intense, but she still manages to stay grounded. She's continually questioning everything that's happening around her, while everyone else is just going about their lives the way they were taught to.

She asks the questions that most people wouldn't want to know the answers to and it makes her one of the most interesting heroines that I've read in a really long time.

She stands up for what is right even though she's been conditioned from birth not to doubt anything that she's told by those who are in charge. Of course this also brings loads of trouble knocking on her front door. I do have one little qualm with this wonderful book. It's a slight, little thing, but it's still there. The world building, though it's really well developed, also isn't. Sure we see the world that Wynne lives in and it's extremely detailed, but the wide scope world building could have been fleshed out a bit more. Though it could have detracted from the characterization and God knows I prefer that to overly detailed outside information.

Like I said, it's a little thing. I highly suggest that this book go on your "to be read" lists.

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It snuck up on me and made me take notice of all the awesome that it had to offer. Kate Jarvik Birch Star Rating: A couple of my frustrations were similar in that book. Overall, I liked this book. Not too much fluff, every chapter was important in moving the story forward. I love a good dystopian featuring the birthing rituals.

The protagonist Wynne has been raised in a perfected society that controls everything. Where you work, where you live, who you live with is all controlled. When a citizen comes of age they are placed into their work assignment. The girls are taught that the Carriers are the absolute best profession. Carriers are basically incubators but they are treated like royalty.

The best clothing, living quarters etc. Wynne isn't placed as a carrier as she had planned and is instead placed as a deliverer.

Not a deliverer of newspapers, but of the cities babies. I liked the pace and I enjoyed the story. Similar to the Hunger Games type. It's worth reading if you like that type of book. Words like mother and love are forbidden but are hard to avoid in the labor and delivery department. Here's the deal, Wynne's best friend is chosen to be a Carrier. Wynne delivers her best friends first baby. Wynne gets herself kicked from the labor and delivery department and is then assigned to be her best friends servant in the Carrier area. It sort of seems set up, but it's never confirmed.

That is the beginning of the too long list of unconfirmed happenings. It's almost like the author had a really great adult dystopian book going then kept remembering it had to be suitable for teens. The problem is the imagination is worse than reality sometimes. There was a reoccurring rape or so it seems. Then I think there was a group rape -ish scene. The problem is, it was so vaguely describes that I am not completely sure. Then there is the relationship between the two girls. Everything else was so veiled that the girls talking had me thinking they were lesbians too, since everything was just "hinted" at.

That's all fine and dandy but without definite details we have no idea of what it happening. I know that confirming the noises from the room were definitely rape would have helped us know exactly what to think. The man that kept visiting could have been just beating her up? The public group sex thing could have been some weird display?

I think the details being clear would have let us see the ugly brutality and given a much stronger case for Carriers being a sucky job. Break the dystopian mold! I hope for some surprises in the second book. We shall see -Sometimes I wish the strong willed teen girl that ends up saving the world would just shut her mouth and think out a decent "Take down the enemy from the inside" type of plan.

The run away, every other citizen dies but protagonist lives after making thousands of bad decisions storyline is getting old. Sometimes it's the right thing to do, but maybe not the right thing to do right this second. My cast list is located on my blog: May 19, Jessica rated it liked it Shelves: The Union dictates everything about it's citizen's lives, from what job they perform to how they spend their time to who produces children.

Citizens lives by sets of tenets and rules. Girls and boys are completely segregated for their entire lives, which are spent in careful preparation for their testing and job assignment when they turn Each year, 9 lucky girls are chosen to be Carriers, who live their lives in luxury for ten years while carrying one baby each year for the Union. Wynne and The Union dictates everything about it's citizen's lives, from what job they perform to how they spend their time to who produces children. Wynne and her best friend more like a sister Odessa are both beautiful, athletic, and smart - and they've spent all their lives hoping to be chosen as Carriers.

When Odessa is selected as a Carrier while Wynne is assigned to work in delivery, the two are torn apart. When Wynne starts her job, she starts to see that everything she thought she knew might be wrong, and she begins to question their way of life. Problem is, the Union doesn't tolerate any form of diversity or rebellion, but Wynne isn't sure she can live under their rule anymore. This is sort of a teen retelling of The Handmaid's Tale. That's how it was advertised to me, and I got quite excited about that prospect! Ultimately, it was a bit disappointing. It is definitely very similar to The Handmaid's Tale, but more like a watered down and less well written version.

I'm not even sure how this book was allowed to be published? Anyway, it was a quick and interesting read, effective as a young adult novel, but I don't think adults would be very impressed. The characters weren't all that well done, and some of the plot points seemed contrived. Wynne didn't seem to hold her beliefs very strongly, despite saying that she did - it didn't take much to make her doubt her world. It just didn't give off a feeling of actual danger. Perhaps too much was censored? But the content itself makes it more of a HS title, regardless of how graphic it is - Carriers are forced into sexual contact without choice, corporal punishment and execution is meted out for little reason.

Or maybe I'm being too conservative. My biggest problem with the concept in this book is that, unlike in The Handmaid's Tale , the Union follows this path by choice. The concept is more affecting when it was reached through believable or rational decisions like in The Handmaid's Tale - rampant infertility forced society to change.

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I don't mean to harp on Deliver Me 's inadequacies, but in comparison it doesn't stack up, and too many elements are too borrowed to ignore the similarity. I would recommend this title for older middle schoolers on up through high school. Adults may find the characters and some situations a bit too immature to really enjoy it.

There is some mature content like the whole idea of Carriers and how they are treated, and some implied non-consensual sex. There is also some casual violence - implied executions, a woman is killed in front of the main character, and another woman has a hot coal held in her mouth as a punishment. I received a digital galley of this book through Netgalley in exchange for an honest review. May 12, Sarah rated it liked it Shelves: Best friends Wynne and Odessa have lived their lives with one goal in mind: But when Odessa is chosen and Wynne is given a seemingly less-important worker position, she begins to see that perhaps being a Carrier isn't all it's cracked up to be.

There's a darkness that underlies everything that surrounds the beauty and luxury that surrounds the Carriers, and now that Odessa is one of them, Wynne Best friends Wynne and Odessa have lived their lives with one goal in mind: There's a darkness that underlies everything that surrounds the beauty and luxury that surrounds the Carriers, and now that Odessa is one of them, Wynne finds herself in a situation where she must do whatever it takes to get Odessa - and herself - out of the clutches of the Union.

This book was just okay. It wasn't excellent, it wasn't bad, but man, that cover is pretty stunning, isn't it? The concept isn't really anything too new. Some women are held in high regard because of their ability to bring forth children, but as a result, these women are 'farmed'. The book began with the typical 'dystopian young adult ceremony', where girls at the age of fifteen take tests woah, slow down there, is that Divergent I see?

One of these is, obviously, a Carrier, but a few others are things like working in the Wool mill factory? I don't remember , the paper factory, laundry, servants, you get the idea. They live in this city which is part of the Union, and the city is enclosed by walls. Men and women are separated, and words like love, family, and mother are taboo. I liked the worldbuilding, but I think that maybe Birch's attempt to build us such a world really took away from some other aspects of the story. The set-up of the world felt a little medieval and I wasn't opposed to that - it was actually kind of cool.

But there were some aspects that I think needed to be touched on a little more, regarding the history of the place: The ending felt a little rushed and sudden. I was reading it and then just suddenly BAM, acknowledgements. I'm betting that there will be a sequel because of the end of the book view spoiler [they were just laying in a field and Wynne was wistfully thinking about this guy that she'd met in prison a few days before hide spoiler ].

Apr 11, Ashley Ferguson rated it really liked it. It's haunting and terrifying and yet somehow empowering in a strange, convoluted way. I also believe it's one of those books that not enough people have read. And I was not disappointed. This book stands entirely on its own, and although it draws heavily from the society of The Handmaid's Tale, this is definitely a little more tame and more approachable for teens.

But the punch is still there, and it's still just as terrifying and poignant as the story it's based on. I did like that the women were still allowed to keep their names and their identity although they are assigned numbers , because I think it helps relate to them more easily even if their world and their lives are nothing like we've experienced in our lifetimes.

I think Wynne was an excellently crafted character, and I'm sorry that this book wasn't longer so we could spend more time with her. She is obedient to the Union even when she's denied the position of Carrier, and only begins to doubt the ideals of and the laws governing the Union because she's placed in a role where she sees the cruelty of forcing women to be Carriers. I'm really glad Tamsin is introduced so that Wynne has someone to talk to, because I don't think she would have gotten to the point she does if she never ended up with a confidante.

One of my favorite parts of this book was the relationships. Friendships are made and lost, and "love" is a concept that's hard for the characters to grasp at first. There are no real romantic relationships, and I think that makes the friendships and rivalries that much more important. Wynne chooses her friends carefully, and keeping those friendships is incredibly important to her.

I definitely think there's a lesson to be learned in there somewhere. I would totally recommend this book to fans of The Handmaid's Tale, or fans of dystopian YA books in general. It isn't very long, but it's still packed with character development and world-building.

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It can stand on its own, but could also be the beginning of an interesting series. It kind of has the same feel as The Giver in that respect, and I think fans of The Giver would also enjoy this book. May 27, Caroline rated it really liked it. My favorite of her books so far. Jun 07, Rowan rated it really liked it Shelves: I found this short novel to be an interesting riff on the dystopian genre. It reminded me in many ways of The Handmaid's Tale viewed through the eyes of someone other than a Handmaid.

Handmaid's tale is in my top five books of all time, and I reread it once a year! The protagonist in this book was well defined and an actual strong woman character. Not strong because she had to "fight," but because there was a full characterization with emotions and motivations that really allowed yo I found this short novel to be an interesting riff on the dystopian genre. Not strong because she had to "fight," but because there was a full characterization with emotions and motivations that really allowed you to slip into her skin.

I was scared when she was scared and hopeful when she was hopeful. The book's focus on reproductive rights was wonderful, it really allowed you to consider the issue without jamming an opinion down your throat. I really appreciated that it handled the concepts of bodily autonomy and relationships in a way that is appropriate for the YA genre without dumbing them down or removing the power of talking about them. In addition, the book did everything it could not to vilify mothers, but rather the oppressive society surrounding them.

I can't really say more without spoiling the plot. I also really enjoyed that rather than being about a girl and her love interest, this was the story of two young women who are best friends, and how their lives in an oppressive regime affect that friendship While there is a young man introduced at one point in the story, he's not the "love interest" and there's no sense that the story is lacking without one. It feels full and complete while focusing on these two women. If you're into feminist dystopian novels, this may be a good summer read for you.

It's not too heavy and reads fast, but will leave you with lots to think about. Birch gives us another novel set in the world of the Union. I also wish Goodreads would let us give half stars. In addition to their high pressure careers, all three are mothers themselves.

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