The Chaperone

This book is dark and disturbing in so many ways, it tests your beliefs and your morality and makes you think about what you'd do for yourself and everyone around you.

A society where young women are taught that they're less than, that the men in their world make all the rules and they have to obey them.

I know what you're thinking, it's a retelling of The Handmaid's Tale, and while there are some similarities there are a lot of things that are different.

First of all, Stella is 17 and she's never known anything other than this new world. She's never had the option of thinking for herself or making her own decisions. She's never known any kind of freedom but she still makes the decisions that she does.

She has known a life of privilege and has come to terms with the life she's been born into, that is until her Chaperon Sister Helen dies and everything changes, When Sister Laura arrives Stella starts exploring and questioning everything.

On top of realizing that she wants to have a say in her life, she starts putting the pieces of the puzzle together and that will lead her in the opposite direction of everything she's ever known.

Since I had the opportunity to listen to the AudioBook version of this book let me take a moment to talk about the narrator, I have to say Laura Knight Keating does a wonderful job on this one, if I had one critique it would be that the pacing is a bit on the slow side.

Thank you to RB Bedia and NetGalley for providing a copy of this audiobook, I have voluntarily listened to it and all thoughts and opinions are my own.