The Pledge -

Kimberly Derting

Margaret K. McElderry

2011

336 páginas

11h 12m

ISBN-13: 9781442422018

In the violent country of Ludania, the language you speak determines what class you are, and there are harsh punishments if you forget your place—looking a member of a higher class in the eye can result in immediate execution. Seventeen-year-old Charlaina (Charlie for short) can understand all languages, a dangerous ability she's been hiding her whole life. Her only place of release is the drug-filled underground club scene, where people go to shake off the oppressive rules of the world they live in. There, she meets a beautiful and mysterious boy who speaks a language she's never heard, and her secret is almost exposed. Through a series of violent upheavals, it becomes clear that Charlie herself is the key to forcing out the oppressive power structure of her kingdom...

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"She would be trouble, this one; the fact that he was lying awake now was proof of that."

A quote já dá uma pista pra o motivo de ter abandonado esse livro. Outra premissa interessante, mas depois de 1/3 do livro sem nada acontecendo, apenas a protagonista com seus dramas adolescentes, um instalove sem quê nem pra quê e personagens mudando de ideia a cada parágrafo, eu não consegui mais ter saco pra seguir lendo. Eu acho que esse tipo de história já não funciona mais tão bem comigo, ou pelo menos o tipo que se apoia em instaloves, dramas adolescentes e protagonistas absolutamente sem sal.