Oooh, tempting. Maybe later, when I’m more awake. What is that?’ She points at the folder in my other hand. The "puzzle" that Kyla must solve throughout the course of this book was a little bit of a let down for me.

The world of Slated is a kind of dystopian post-Brexit, a closed off UK, where riots and dissent are suppressed through the deletion of memories (Slating) of criminals and terrorists. The procedure makes the subjects meek, susceptible to imprinting. Also just to be thorough, the Slated are carefully monitored by a smartwatch (the Levo) of the government. The Levo gives the Slated a seizure when they get too aggressive or emotional. Well, what can I say. The idea, the starting, the ending, the plot, the characters, and all of them are great. I could write a review but I will not able to praise this trilogy, this book especially. I wasn't so sure how it gonna end after a whole long roller coaster rides. But who knows, it really end very well that one will be so surprised. Slated is not an action-oriented thriller in the ilk of The Hunger Games. It’s not a tale of explosions, or edge-of-seat live-or-die exploits. This is a more underhanded, sly, pervasive threat and menace. Dystopian fiction is at its most effective and frightening when presenting a reality that is conceivable, and believable. This type of novel hinges not only on its audience's ability to believe such a thing could come to pass, but—just as Orwell did in 1984—plays on the innate fear that it is already happening, already here, that this is a future we could very well face if we do not take a good, hard look at ourselves. Terry presents a world terrifyingly close to our own, one that is halfway here, and it seems she is challenging her readers to not only think as they read Slated, to discover it, and Kyla’s, secrets, but to question what they know, contemplate the value of their basic civil liberties, and what ‘self’ truly means.Kyla Davis is no-one. She has been Slated. Her memories, her past, her life erased; her synapses rewired, and her mind wiped blank. I would have been more interested if Terry had spent that time world-building. It took me a while to figure out that this was in the future, way past 2030 (the year Mum was in her teens?), and I get that there's a normal wold and the hospital, but that's about it. MUCH later, Mum tells us a little bit about the political campaign that kind of brought everything on, but it was very brief and didn't tell us much.

Read a full summary of Slated by Teri Terry below. If you can’t remember what happened in Slated and you need a refresher, then you’re in the right place. Character consistency was also a problem for me. Kyla's Slater love-interest wanted to do something particularly dangerous. She was vehemently against this, even coming to his place to stop him. But when she gets there, instead of stepping her foot down and making him stop, she tells him instead why his methods won't work, and how to do it the right way. Minor issues aside, Terry did a great job with the subject of memory loss. The beginning of Slated reminded me a bit of the beginning of Thyla. But the most interesting part Terry explored is muscle memory. Sometimes, Kyla would just stop thinking about things and start moving instinctively – she discovered a lot if things about her old self that way, her ability to drive just one of them. Kyla is special and the book does not let us forget this for a minute, which made me care less on the outcome of any confrontations as, hey, Kyla probably gets out of it relatively easily. Not to say that she is unsympathetic or unrealistic in her handling of things. Often it more or less feels like the other teenage characters, including love interest Ben, are just dumbed down or really apathetic, so that Kyla can shine. Especially Ben felt a bit stupid, something even the author noticed: Terry explains away his susceptibility as being a side effect of Slating. She freaking jumped. I can't even imagine that. How did she jump, I wonder? Half a meter in the air? With both feet up? Who knows? But she keeps on doing it anyway.Just a note on this subject of female characters: other than this, they get better as it goes along. At first I feared that Kyla was going to be the only likeable female in the book, but this isn't true and my favourite characters ended up being the women. AGT (Anti-Government Terrorists)– a group of people targeting the government to overturn it and stop people from being Slated. Because I know full well that I have a lot of gripes about the current dystopian/dystomance/post-apoc/futuristic trend in YA right now. And I know that while I generally enjoy these genres, sadly few books actually deliver for me, in terms of solid worldbuilding, logical plot, interesting premise etc.

There were so many moments where I found myself feeling like I was Kyla, desperate to understand the hold that the government had on the world. People are disappearing. People are scared of the authorities, and best of all, I think people in this book are scared of their own power to make a difference. It was scary, because it felt so real. And it very well could become real. That's the best kind of fiction.

I won't dwell much on things such as credibility of the entire memory-wiping, or even emotion-controlling-Levo thing. I mean, I assume the Levo works by somehow calculating the amount of specific brain activity and hormones associated to certain emotions. But even this is faulty; the lateral region of the orbitofrontal cortex, along with increased secretion of epinephrine and norepinephrine, for instance, are heavily associated with anger. However, the same also applies during an individual's inhibition of physical pain. The ability of a machine to distinguish which instance is which, is highly suspect. E é esse o mote que leva para o final do terceiro livro, a procura do seu verdadeiro eu, de quem é realmente, no que acredita e no que é verdadeiramente fabricado pela sociedade. Then in the last book, she found out she was an adopted daughter, also. She was being used by Inspectors which is her grandmother. The grandmother gave Kyla to her "was-known-as" birth mother. As she was in mourning of losing her first daughter, she made Kyla as she's her own daughter. Kyla, named Lucy. Then all what happen to little Lucy next was how AGT cooperated with Inspectors . I consider. ‘I think so,’ I say, finally. ‘Though that could be because at the hospital you have no choice.’