Sonya is a teenager living in a prison community separated from society after the fall of an authoritarian government her parents were deeply involved in, and she was, quite literally, the poster girl for. The youngest prisoner left, she is given the opportunity to earn her freedom by finding a missing child who was taken from her parents during the previous regime, a task that sends her on a quest that reveals far more than she wanted to know about her family, her life before, her very reality. It is a story of how very easy it is to succumb to the ease of surveillance technology, and the ease of such technology to be misused. It's a fascinating story, dark and gritty, with badly damaged characters trying to rebuild themselves after the destruction of civil war. Not a light happy read, and no easy answers. Would be fabulous for book group discussions. Highly recommended.
My copy was an eARC from NetGalley.

Veronica Roth is such a compelling writer. Not only is the writing great, but the story was really interesting. It had just the right amount of intrigue and sci-fi to really keep me interested. Great read, and I already have some patrons in mind who are going to love it.

If you like Black Mirror-esque, post-Big-Brother-regime murder mysteries you will thoroughly enjoy Veronica Roth's POSTER GIRL.

Thank you to NetGalley and the publisher for allowing me the opportunity to read and review this novel. I am rating this book based the stars due to lack of time to leave a full review. #NetGalley #PosterGirl

A tightly-plotted page turner that keeps readers on their toes, POSTER GIRL takes place in a post-rebellion world that asks the question whether the sins of the past can ever be forgiven - or forgotten.

Wow, I didn't expect to like this book as much as I did, but I loved it! Veronica Roth did a wonderful job not just with world building, but also creating realistic, sympathetic, and believable characters. We get to explore the world alongside Sonya as we learn more about Sonya and her past. Sonya is kind in her small world inside the Eye, and it was very rewarding to see her come to terms with her own past actions. Poster Girl makes you question just how culpable children and young adults are in a dystopic society and leaves you wondering what you may do in a similar situation

⭐️4.5/5 stars (still wish we could do half stars).

Thank you to NetGalley & William Morrow Publishing for providing the ARC for my honest review.

No one does dystopians quite like Veronica Roth. She is exceptional at taking tropes or genres and just reversing them. Like here, we aren’t seeing the typical fall of a dystopian society but rather what happens after it fell and are following someone that had thrived under the old system. But the most important thing about a good dystopian or science fiction story is taking something so commonplace and twisting it to the extreme. For instance, in this story we see what the extreme could be with l the algorithms and data collecting taken from our technology.

I feel like a newer phrase we’ve been throwing around, at least on booktok, is a cozy fantasy or cozy stories. They are the stories where the stakes aren’t life or death. They aren’t overthrowing the government. These stories have slightly lower stakes that still completely sucks you. This was that kind of story. However, Veronica Roth still gave us some amazing plot twists. But they were subtle. She slyly slid in details about a character that takes you by surprise. Like finally cracking into a rock but to discover it contains so much more inside.

This story was a great. There were so many good, thought-provoking quotes alongside just concepts that made you step back and rethink the direction our society is currently going. Plus, the characters and their stories were so fascinating. I am definitely going to recommend this book to everyone I know.

In her new book, Veronica Roth turns away from the excitement and righteousness of dystopian revolution and instead asks questions. What happens after the controlling, dystopian regime falls? Is the new government any better than the one they overturned? Is convenience worth surrendering our privacy? Poster Girl explores these questions, and more, as ten years later a golden child of the first government explores her options living in the new one.

This new dystopian fiction for adults is a creative look at a penal colony, instead of a traditional prison, for families of a deposed regime. The lead character's image at age 16 had been used for propaganda during the previous regime and her identity and character are still associated with the poster even though the new regime has been in power and she has been imprisoned in the penal colony for the previous 10 years. I enjoyed reading Poster Girl, from the beginning through the end. Thank you to NetGalley!