3.5 stars. 
 I'd been hearing about it for awhile, so I was really excited for the chance to finally dig in. Happily, I was not disappointed! I really enjoyed this book. The non-stop action had me turning the pages rapidly, along with the anticipation of how the final inevitable showdown was going to happen. Boecker did a fantastic job creating and depicting this world -- I was fully immersed and found myself lost in it as I was reading. Elizabeth had to make some hard choices in the story, and I liked that though she was understandably resistant to believing so many new ideas at first, she was able to think look at them and think rationally about them. Her beliefs came to be founded on what she experienced as true, not just what she was told. 
 And John can heal me any day! 
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