Dystopian, Liberal-Christian Chick Lit In “Veracity”

In a future United States that is on such unfathomed cultural lockdown that it has become a version of North Korea , only a psychic administration administrative official can push back . Laura Bynum ’s Veracity tackles the advance and fall of totalitarian America .

Though reviewer have compared the book to 1984 and The Handmaid ’s Tale , really Bynum ’s action - pack story is more like dystopian chick perch . It only does n’t have the inviolable , decisive sharpness of those other novel . or else of leaving us shaken by a potent social critique of style in our own Earth , we ’re given a front man forged guy to tear down and replace with what amounts to our own current system . Bynum employ her dark vision to urge a return to liberal heartland America , where good Christian value include tolerance and devoid thought .

Like many chick light up agonist , our hero Harper is a woman whose principal problem are her taxing chore and raising her daughter Veracity as a single mom . It just so happens that her taxing job is working for the government as a psychic undercover agent , keep open an eye on multitude who may be break the rules . The main normal - breaking she investigates has to do with masses who speak “ red tilt words ” that are changed on a weekly foundation . And unfortunately the countersign “ veracity ” has release up on the red list . Which puts considerable line on her relationship with her daughter .

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recruit at a young eld into her job , Harper has always been disgruntled but never question her role in the government platform called BodySpeak . For at least 30 years , the governance has been putting computerized gimmick into everyone ’s throats that supervise what they say – and shock or pop them if it ’s a cerise list countersign . In a undefined , bridge player - rippled backstory , we learn the government has done this by manufacturing an “ epidemic ” which purportedly killed everyone in the world and most of the US ( in reality , the world is still there , and the authorities killed its own citizen ) . Now the totalistic authorities wants to consolidate its business leader further by continue tabs on people who are but thinking of disobeying instead of talking about it . So they produce special schools for people like Harper , who can read aura and do astral jut and all kind of other nerveless psychical clobber .

When Veracity ’s name is redlisted , it ’s the last chaff . harpist ’s quick to renegade . A deep recruiter for the cloak-and-dagger resistance ( which is literally located underground ) leaves her a bill , and she decides to trade in her sprightliness of bureaucratic safety and power , throw her deal in with a group of prof and immature warriors who commemorate “ the time before ” when masses in America could utter freely . And when Jesus was represented as a man shed blood on the cross , alternatively of as a man in a business suit .

Though the government and worldbuilding in Veracity are odd at salutary , harpist construct for a great action story protagonist . She has righteousness on her side , and her psychical major power are just plain coolheaded . As a dystopian novel , the book is n’t much of a winner . It ’s hard to believe the full US could be transform into North Korea over a period of 30 years , and we ’re never given any realistic reasons why the current administration was able to sequester king so utterly . And some of the moralizing about religion and sex is just embarrassingly wacky . But if you focus on the biddy alight aspects of the taradiddle – Harper ’s find of her own index , and her behind - burning romance with a dangerous “ profane pelage ” shock cavalryman – you ’ll get that it ’s a amazingly fun , escapist read .

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