Meritropolis
By Joel Ohman
Publisher: Joel Ohman
Published: Sept. 8, 2014
ASIN: B00NFNEOP6
Amazon Synopsis:
In Meritropolis everyone is assigned a
numerical Score that decides their worth to society and whether they live or
die. After a young boy is killed because of a low Score, his brother plots to
take down the System.
“The Hunger Games meets The Village with a young Jack Reacher as a protagonist.” -Donny Meader
“Meritropolis is a superior read with a powerful protagonist that brings readers along for a ride which will prove wild at times, always involving, and filled with depth and ethical insights. An absolute standout from the masses of post-apocalyptic survival works permeating today's market.” - Midwest Book Review
“The Hunger Games meets The Village with a young Jack Reacher as a protagonist.” -Donny Meader
“Meritropolis is a superior read with a powerful protagonist that brings readers along for a ride which will prove wild at times, always involving, and filled with depth and ethical insights. An absolute standout from the masses of post-apocalyptic survival works permeating today's market.” - Midwest Book Review
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In this
post-apocalyptic novel “the event” happened about 12 years ago. That event left
Meritropolis as the only civilization left surrounded by forest and savage
beasts that have been changed the event.
Charley, the
protagonist has just been promoted to aboveground from belowground and is
learning how the system works. The system involves weekly evaluations of a
person’s worth to the community and when the population in the community rise
over 50,000, a gate ceremony is held and anyone with a score of less than 50 is
ejected from the city. Charley’s younger brother had a gate ceremony when
Charley was much younger and within days of Charley arriving aboveground, he
sees a young girl about to be given a gate ceremony.
I liked Charley
because he was a man of strong beliefs and was not afraid to act on them. He
was rather rash and didn’t always think through what he was going to do before
he did it, but that was his inexperience showing. Through the novel he seemed
to get better at making decisions.
Meritropolis was fun
and creative with the different creatures that were found outside the city. In
a way these creatures were probably more realistic as creatures because they
were combinations of other animals that exist in nature. On the other hand,
they were less realistic because that is likely not how animals would have been
affected by nuclear war.
There were a lot of
twists and turns in Meritropolis and
it was evident that the people of the city were being lied to. What was not
evident was the true purpose of the lies and where it was going to lead.
The crossing of the
two premises of “Sacrificing one for the good of the many” versus “Everyone has
equal value” was a very thought-provoking idea behind Meritropolis. The system on which the city had been run focused on
the former with total disregard for the latter sacrificing the ill, weak and elderly.
This affected the way the residents treated each other and often how they
thought of themselves.
Meritropolis was extremely engaging right from the first
sentence to the last. There was lots of suspense and the pace was rapid. Meritropolis
is the first book in a series.
I thought this
post-apocalyptic dystopian novel was very much worth reading. I gave it 4 stars
out of 5.
Thank you to the
publisher for providing a copy of the book in exchange for a fair and honest
review. A positive opinion was not required. All thoughts are my own.
About the Author:
Joel Ohman is the author of Meritropolis--"The Hunger
Games meets The Village with a young Jack Reacher as a protagonist". He
lives in Tampa, FL with his wife Angela and their three kids. His writing
companion is Caesar, a slightly overweight Bull Mastiff who loves to eat the
tops off of strawberries.
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