Poster Girl

By: Veronica Roth

Narrated by: Anna Caputo

For fans of Anthony Marra and Lauren Beukes, number one New York Times best-selling author Veronica Roth tells the story of a woman's desperate search for a missing girl after the collapse of the oppressive dystopian regime—and the dark secrets about her family and community she uncovers along the way.

What's right is right.

Sonya Kantor knows this slogan—she lived by it for most of her life. For decades, everyone in the Seattle-Portland megalopolis lived under it, as well as constant surveillance in the form of the Insight, an ocular implant that tracked every word and every action, rewarding or punishing by a rigid moral code set forth by the Delegation.

Then there was a revolution. The Delegation fell. Its most valuable members were locked in the Aperture, a prison on the outskirts of the city. And everyone else, now free from the Insight’s monitoring, went on with their lives.

Sonya, former poster girl for the Delegation, has been imprisoned for 10 years when an old enemy comes to her with a deal: find a missing girl who was stolen from her parents by the old regime, and earn her freedom. The path Sonya takes to find the child will lead her through an unfamiliar, crooked post-Delegation world where she finds herself digging deeper into the past—and her family’s dark secrets—than she ever wanted to.

With razor sharp prose, Poster Girl is a haunting dystopian mystery that explores the expanding role of surveillance on society—an inescapable reality that we welcome all too easily.

©2022 Veronica Roth (P)2022 Audible, Inc.

Dystopian allegory, well done

If you like books like Brave New World, Fahrenheit 451, and Gattica, this book is for you. Set at some future time of societal breakdown, it presents a dystopian future with people divided into largely two classes. I won't spoil the set up by delving into that more, but I thought the world building was solid, and the character development was good, and the narration was excellent. I enjoyed this one very much.

Would listen again

Captivating book awesome author I enjoyed every minute of it. I would read it again.

Interesting

A good listen. Thanks Interesting story well delivered. I will look at for books by this author and narrator.

Excellent narration and captivating story about connectedness gone berserk

I wish this story would continue!

The core story is about what could go wrong when wearables turn implantables and what could go even more wrong when the pendulum would swing back from there. But there is so much more: the main character is so relatable and well developed and there is so much brilliant material that could be expanded upon, it’s really hard to stop listening to this story and to the superb narration.

Just okay

For the story: I didn’t love it, didn’t hate it. It was a good idea, but I think it was lacking some things. It didn’t make me feel anything. I would have liked to have more information on the Delegation to contextualize people’s hatred of it more; there is obviously the constant surveillance, and some murders, but it didn’t feel like enough. There were several moments that were too convenient, sort of “deus ex machina” type stuff. Even aside from that though, something about the writing was just not quite there for me.
As far as the narrator, I don’t think she was a good choice for this one. She didn’t really “fit the role,” you know? Not edgy enough, I guess.

Deconstructing her indoctrination

I loved this. Roth has redeemed herself to me for the flat and lazy ending of the Divergent series.

I love a good dystopian story that focuses more on the human element than the world building and this story does just that. As a deconstructing former Christian, I greatly identified with Sonya’s character. I will recommend it to all my deconstructing friends!

Worth the read

Veronica Roth does dystopian very well! Big fan of the divergent series. Poster Girl was a pleasure to read and an easy book to get lost in. I’d like to see a sequel, but it’s a great standalone book. It gives Big Brother but with more relatable characters to people in their 20’s-40’s.

Good story, delivery okay

The overall story is good but the telling is sometimes too rich with detail and can be trite at times.

Hard to get through

This book is hard to get through and I kept stopping and going to other stuff to listen to and coming back to it only to quit after a bit.
The over use of “she said” “he said” after almost every line of dialogue about drive me crazy, and the narrator made it hard to listen to.

Narrator

Great story, but the narrator’s lisp was really distracting. Otherwise, I really enjoyed this book