From the very beginning, this book drew me in with it's simple description: "suicide now an international epidemic" and "1 in 3 people under the age of 18 commit suicide", that is a large amount of people committing suicide! So the society has developed The Program. Anyone who seems to show any sign of sadness or vulnerability or depression gets flagged and you are sent to The Program for six weeks and when you come back, you are all shiny and new. This concept is what drew me in and I found this book very interesting. (view spoiler)[I loved James and Sloane's relationship from the very first page. It was instant romance, but that is to be expected because they had been together for two years prior to the novel. However, saying that, the story did not focus on just their romance. I would say the main focus of the book was The Program, hence the title of the book, and how it was affecting Sloane and her life. You would go in with a personality and come out without one. Maybe one of the reasons 1 in 3 teens commit suicide is because they can't cry or complain or show anything that would relate them to being depressed (even if they are not) without getting flagged for The Program. Everyone needs to let it all out once in a while, it's healthy to do that! And the only way that Sloane felt that it was okay to cry and let her emotions run wild without getting flagged was by physically hurting herself. She burned her arm just so that she could mourn, that is NOT healthy!!! Anyway so after their friend Miller (I really liked him, so tears) commits suicide everything goes down hill for Sloane and James. James gets sent to The Program and when he comes out he doesn't know who Sloane is, because they wipe your fricking memory with pills!!! After Sloane sees James for the first time since he has been back, Sloane's parents call The Program and she gets sent in. Slowly, everyday, she looses her memories because of the pills that she is required to take. She then gets out of The Program and of course remembers nothing of her old life. She has been told that her brother died accidentally and to stay away from James. However, she feels an undeniable attraction and familiarity with James, so she cannot help but NOT stay away from James and they get to know one another again =D!!! After being back from The Program, Sloane is promised that she will have a new and happier and stress free life, however, instead of that, she is overcome with emotions that she does not understand. In the end they find a discovery of a pill that they can take to restore their stolen memories. We are left wondering whether they will take it and if they can escape The Program. Also let's talk about that Epilogue...I personally thought that it was strange. I mean I guess it was Suzanne Young's way of showing us that Realm was still working for The Program. But I personally don't like him, he was alright at first, but then he really started to annoy me, so I didn't particularly care. The only REAL reason I think that Suzanne put this in here is because it plays a role in the second book: The Treatment. (hide spoiler)] All in all I enjoyed this book. I think that it did drag in a lot of places, but in the places that it was not dragging I really enjoyed it. Suzanne Young did a really good job of building the character relationships. I think that it was very cool how Suzanne wrote the book. (view spoiler)[There would be scenes where we knew what memories Sloane had lost and she was questioning what she was doing. Sometimes I just wanted to reach through the book and yell "don't do that" or "this is what happened". I just thought that it was interesting how we knew about Sloane and her past, yet she did not. (hide spoiler)] I'm giving this a 3.5 out of 5 stars only because of the times that it dragged. I felt like it took me forever to finish it because of that. However, saying this, I do plan on reading the second book and however many others Suzanne Young plans on making apart of the series, I just won't be jumping right into it. But I do plan on reading The Treatment. I recommend that this, but when you have a lot of free time! 
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