All Rights Reserved
All Rights Reserved (2017) by Gregory Scott Katsoulis
As soon as Speth turns fifteen, she will have to pay for every word and gesture. She knows in her family, that means certain debt that she’ll struggle to get ahead of for the rest of her life - and electric shocks to the eyes when she uses words she can’t pay for.
Just before her fifteenth birthday, Speth’s friend Beecher kills himself, and Speth assumes that this is to avoid his family’s crippling debt. On Speth’s Last Day, her fifteenth birthday, she is expected to make a pre-scripted speech. Instead, she says nothing - and vows to continue to stay silent in defiance of the rules. Those who make the rules, though, are sure to be unhappy with her - and that could spell disaster for Speth and her family.
This is such a fun concept, and while it’s not maybe brilliant, it will grab lots of readers - and I’m looking forward to seeing how this story continues in the sequel.
3.5/5
