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The Cure eBook Stephanie Erickson

Stephanie Erickson's second novel is a natural for the Teen - Young Adult Market. I'm not in either category, but I couldn't put it down until the end. I loved it. Set 100 years in the future, it is the well told story of a perky, young high school Junior, Macey, struggling to maintain her creativity and independence and make sense of the world around her. It is a restricted society in which Every citizen is given a personal examination "date" by the "State" in an effort to attain a cure for a killer disease that afflicts the world.The examination itself can be fatal. When she turns 18 Macey is scheduled for her turn. And guess what happens?
Erickson maintains a steady, consistently controlled dramatic pace throughout. The result is a thoroughly refreshing reading experience.. an original concept delivered with a realistic and consistent voice. Congratulations to this young novelist!.


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The Cure eBook Stephanie Erickson Reviews

The first line of the book states "I gladly sacrifice my life for the good of others. One life will make the difference, and that life could be mine. For this reason I'm devoted to finding the cure."

In "The Cure" by Stephanie Erickson, the American society is run with an ongoing and extreme martial law due to a deadly and incurable disease. Citizen's are restricted from travel (to reduce the spread of the disease), have little (if any) freedom of speech and are monitored for any other actions deemed questionable. Citizens are forced to submit themselves to a government facility on their reoccurring "date" in order to undergo testing in the hopes of finding a cure for the disease. The "date" is basically a nice term for human experimentation by the government.

The story follows a young protagonist named Macey Holsinger along with her parents and best friend Alex. The first half of the book deals mainly with Macey living her life (pursuing her passion and love of art) and mentally preparing for her first testing date. As with most YA dystopian heroines, Macey is stubborn and head-strong and begins to question why the government does what it does to its citizens.Only when Macey gets closer to and finally undergoes her first testing does she truly understand how far the government officials will go in order to find a cure.

It's hard to summarize this book without giving spoilers. The author presents many twists and turns in the story and I was unsure how the ending would turn out until I read it. The book presents readers with a deep and though-provoking tale about how far and to what lengths the government might go to find a cure. Where does forced human experimentation fall in the grand scheme of things and how would we feel about our rights taken away? Highly recommended to fans of YA dystopian genre books.
One-hundred years into the future, the government controls everything. Where you live. How you prosper. What happens when you come of age. In this unsettling version of the apocalypse, we follow a young woman named Macey Holsinger as she struggles to face not only a future uncertain, but her upcoming Date an event in which she will be subjected to mandatory medical testing to participate in the government’s search for a cure. There’s no guarantee that Macey will survive. If she does, she has a chance of leading a somewhat-normal life. But if she doesn’t, she’ll leave not only a promising future, but her family, behind.

Tight, fast-paced, and shocking, The Cure by Stephanie Erickson offers everything fans of young-adult and end-of-the-world fiction could want. With a likable heroine, a gripping and unsettling world, and a constant sense of fear over the unknown, this riveting page-turner of a novel leaves you glued to your seat as you long to discover young Macey’s fate. I can’t recommend it enough.
I started it for some 'light reading' before bed, and managed to read through the night until I finished. I am surprised, I wasn't expecting to like it as much as I did. The story is one of our main character, Macey Holsinger, and her life leading up to her Date. The Date is just that, a date on the calendar, that everyone is given on their 16th birthday. The date is for no earlier than their 20th birthday, and on that date, every 10 years, they must go to the government for testing. Testing to find the cure of 'the disease'. The disease, that's been around for over a hundred years (I don't remember exactly how long) but no cure has been found. American's freedom has become less free...all in the name of the cure.
There are twists that you kinda see coming, but twists nonetheless in the story as well.

I found the story line interesting, and the way the author has described this new America, I thought she was on to something. The way Macey thought outside the box that the government put her in, the author was definitely on the right track...then she slipped. Not far, but, slipped nonetheless. She could have done SOOOOOOO much with this idea, and she already had a great foundation. The characters were well thought out, and relationships formed between the reader and each character to the point that when one dies, I'm bawling my eyes out. The author was >thisclose< and then she seemed to quit. I felt like she just decided to quit the book, and threw down an ending. It felt so rushed, I'm flipping back and forth on my kindle, searching up the book online, trying to figure out where the rest of it went. As much as it pains me, I have to say that the ending was so off-putting I'm not sure if I want to read anything else by her. She raised my hopes so high...*sigh* besides the ending, there were a few inconsistencies in the book that can be overlooked, but bothered me, so I'm putting them here, in case the author wants to read my drivel....

In the beginning of the book, Macey's attention is directed to a flag in her history book, but she doesn't even know what a flag is. HOWEVER, we're told that she's watched Schindler's list, lord of the rings, back to the future, and has access to all sorts of 'old' movies...of which SOOOO many of them would show FLAGS.

Then there's the TV. To quote Macey "I'd seen a television at the museum, so I had a basic understanding..." ..."today everything was digital and stored on your home's mainframe. There were no televisions, only high definition projectors"... but yet, they 'gather around the TV' quite a few times in the book.

(I said they can be overlooked, and I already called my writings drivel, so if you're still reading, you can't complain) there were a couple other things, like the home decontamination thing, and how it seemed to take a while, but then all of a sudden everyone else is just walking into the house and it seems they're no longer being decontaminated by 'Rosie' (the house), and do places of business or employment do decontamination? We're never told she'd been decontaminated before walking into the studio, or art gallery, or anything....anyway. So. Aside from that? Amazing book. I'm just stuck on the lackluster ending *sigh*
Stephanie Erickson's second novel is a natural for the Teen - Young Adult Market. I'm not in either category, but I couldn't put it down until the end. I loved it. Set 100 years in the future, it is the well told story of a perky, young high school Junior, Macey, struggling to maintain her creativity and independence and make sense of the world around her. It is a restricted society in which Every citizen is given a personal examination "date" by the "State" in an effort to attain a cure for a killer disease that afflicts the world.The examination itself can be fatal. When she turns 18 Macey is scheduled for her turn. And guess what happens?
Erickson maintains a steady, consistently controlled dramatic pace throughout. The result is a thoroughly refreshing reading experience.. an original concept delivered with a realistic and consistent voice. Congratulations to this young novelist!.