Reading Response 3: Dark Parties

Dark Parties is about a girl named Neva and how she is resisting the government. The government is not innocent, and she continues to find evidence proving her belief. There is also a love triangle type of thing going on with Sanna, Braydon, and Neva. Braydon is Sanna's boyfriend, but he seems to like Neva. Neva reciprocates,but does not want to hurt Sanna. Sanna is unaware of this love happening between her boyfriend and best friend. The world they live in is severely inbred, so everyone looks alike unless they obtain identity marks. These marks are frowned on by the government.

Neva is strange. She has all this proof of the government getting rid of people, yet she never did anything about it until Sanna brought it up. Her own grandmother was taken away from the government when she was a girl, yet she only thinks to save something to remember her by. She remembers saving the necklace that her grandma gave her by sticking it in her mouth. The government removed all traces that they could find of her as if she never existed. Later on, Neva betrays Sanna when she and Braydon interact. "With one move, his lips are on mine." She resisted but hormones were just too strong for this duo. This is important because that is when Sanna finds out and Neva's life goes from mostly sunshine to ominous clouds and thunder. This is also why the picture is a sun being covered by storm clouds.

This is a heavy conspiracy theorist type of book. It centers around the government wanting an increase in population by reproduction, yet is killing society with a protectosphere. As inbred people, I guess they just can't reproduce as well. If blaming the government for all the problems in the world is something a person enjoys doing, then this is the book for them.