Review: Death Thieves by Julie Wright

Death Thieves by Julie Wright
My rating: 5 of 5 stars

I received this eBook for free in exchange for an honest review. I read the description on this and it sounded intriguing so I took a chance on it from http://www.ebooksforreview.com, and I'm so glad I did. It has such and interesting take on time travel, elitist society, and dystopia. I think fans of The Maze Runner, The Selection, The Jewel, etc will find enjoyment in this book. It had science, technology, forbidden romance, good guys, bad guys, all the things that I like in a good fiction book.

Summer our main character and her twin sister Winter have not had it easy. They grew up in foster care until their Aunt Teresa adopted them, but she is fairly strict, and Summer is always testing her patience while Winter always plays by the rules. The sisters have always taken care of each other and have always stayed together until the day the day Summer "dies". At the moment of Summer's death she is whisked away by Tag, who steals her from her death and takes her through time and space to help save humanity. Summer is to become a race of Elite New Youth to help repopulate the world with pure blooded children, free of mental disease. It is very Adam and Eve with a twist. Summer fights Tag at first then decides to go with him to this new future, and she eventually ends up enjoying her new life. She never really accepts that she's dead and never really conforms to her new life. She's supposed to find a New Youth boy, get married, and have babies as soon as possible. Summer, ever the rebel, does none of those things as she finds herself wanting to cure the disease that plagues the world as opposed to just being part of the re-population plan. She and a friend uncover a sinister plot regarding the New Youth's children and vows to stop them as well as go back in time and save the one person that means everything to her, her sister.   I loved that this was a stand alone and that the loose ends were tied up.  While I think it could have made a good typical YA trilogy, it stood well on its own and I really enjoyed it.

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