Boy, girl, different people with different views on life. Obviously, as you can tell, it was Sudasa's and Kiran's. THIS WAS BEAUTIFULLY TOLD IN TWO WIDELY DIFFERENT POINTS-OF-VIEW. Kiran, on the other hand, is contestant number five, and he is against it all as well-he rather cheat and pretend to fail than go for it all. She's against all of the mistreatment that the government is required to give to all of teh boys, and she has five contestants fighting to be with her. Sudasa is participating in the Test to find a husband, which she surely doesn't want. (HM, DOESN'T THAT SOUND FAMILIAR?!) In dystopian India, the stakes are high for boys to get married, since girls are worth so much and there's not enough for everyone. The ratio of boys compared to every girl is 5 to 1. He isn't running from someone-someone like me. "That's when I see the longing in his eyes. This book can probably be your soulmate, to be honest. Don't worry, though, you'll eventually get it and feel like you're in the coolest club ever and feel like royalty. You're probably wondering what that is about, too. Everything's so interesting about it-including the title. I mean, I'm the proudest person at the moment, since no author has ever done a 5 to 1 like situation ever. *feels bad about life* 5 to 1 was unlike anything I've read, and I'm so excited for the hype to get real and have people seeing what I'm actually talking about.īefore I actually really get started, my overall thoughts are highly positive. But then those would've gone to the dump too.
Never in a million years have I ever read a book so diverse and with so many different concepts and issues that I'm just sitting here, unable to go on with my life because I regret not focusing on the other themes that I didn't focus on. This beautiful, unique novel is told from alternating points of view-Sudasa's in verse and Kiran's in prose-allowing readers to experience both characters' pain and their brave struggle for hope. As the tests advance, Sudasa and Kiran thwart each other at every turn until they slowly realize that they just might want the same thing. Sudasa, though, doesn't want to be a wife, and Kiran, a boy forced to compete in the test to become her husband, has other plans as well.
Tired of marrying off their daughters to the highest bidder and determined to finally make marriage fair, the women who form the country of Koyanagar have instituted a series of tests so that every boy has the chance to win a wife. In the year 2054, after decades of gender selection, India now has a ratio of five boys for every girl, making women an incredibly valuable commodity. Genre: Young Adult Fiction, Dystopian, Romance Publication: May 12, 2015, by Knopf Books
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