“Tyrant is the right word. And liar and fraud. You’re too young to know spit about the past, but history is littered with people like her. Idi Amin. Pol Pot. Jim Jones. Charismatic cult leaders who worm their way into desperate people’s minds with lies disguised as promises."

Oh how appropriate that statement is today.

Always, I've had this book forever and finally decided to read it. This one surprised me. I knew it was dystopian but I wasn't expecting so much in one book. This book never bored me to say the least but I feel it could have been spread out to another book easily. There was a lot of information in just one book. Not like a history lesson but more like way to much story for one book. I really did enjoy it but would have liked to see Basil and Apples story broken out into a couple of books.