Configured: Book #1 in the Configured Trilogy (The Configured Trilogy and The Illusion of Truth)
- 4.4 out of 5
- 3,074 ratings
- 368 pages
Overall Content Rating: Parents Strongly Cautioned PG-13
This young-adult dystopian novel follows a teen who lives in a tightly controlled society ranked by intelligence, where emotions and affection are discouraged and pairings are mainly for reproduction. The plot involves rebellion, surveillance, loss of friends and family, and growing awareness of unfair treatment toward people classified as lower levels, including past harm to disabled or average citizens and the protagonist’s grief over a twin who died young when medical care was prioritized by class. Language in the sampled text is mild: matched terms for strong swearing, crude insults, and sexual wording do not appear in those senses, and many reviewers describe the book as clean. There is action and injury, including blood from a traffic accident and wounded characters in crises, plus themes parents may want to discuss: non-graphic handling of a sexual assault by a powerful figure, capital punishment, fire used against a body, and a budding romantic tension that is not the main focus of the book.
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Violence Moderate
23The story includes dystopian conflict, accidents, and rescue scenes where characters bleed or are hurt; some action occurs in simulations or off-page warfare rather than prolonged graphic gore on the page. Readers also see property destruction, a body burned after death, capital punishment referenced, and occasional physical struggle such as scraping falls or a kick in self-defense.
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Specific words
- blood: 11
- bleed: 4
- smash: 4
- kick: 2
- punch: 2
About this book
There will come a day…when love will mark her a traitor. In a society where emotions are outlawed and function is everything, Avlyn Lark is just trying to blend in. Born into the lowest level of society she was fortunate to have been removed from her biological parents and assigned to a Level Two family. But mastering her emotions? That's a problem… especially when a rebel bomb blows up a building right in front of her. On Configuration Day, Avlyn's official transition to adulthood, she starts seeing strange visions. And instead of being placed with a basic job where she could hide her urges, she's hired by Genesis Technologies, the government firm that controls every citizen. If Gen Tech discovers her secrets and exposes her for what she really is, it will ruin her life. And if they find out about her illegal meetings with a mysterious but handsome member of the rebel forces, her life will be more than ruined. It will be over. For fans of The Hunger Games, Divergent and The Matrix. Read more