Review: The Remedy by Suzanne Young

Series: The Program (.5 or 3)
Format: Hardcover
Pages: 401
Rating: 4 Stars
How I Got It: Purchased or Chirstmas Gift
Genre: Young Adult
Publisher: Simon Pulse

Synopsis courtesy of Goodreads

Quinlan McKee is a closer. Since the age of seven, Quinn has held the responsibility of providing closure to grieving families with a special skill—she can “become” anyone.

Recommended by grief counselors, Quinn is hired by families to take on the short-term role of a deceased loved one between the ages of fifteen and twenty. She’s not an exact copy, of course, but she wears their clothes and changes her hair, studies them through pictures and videos, and soon, Quinn can act like them, smell like them, and be them for all intents and purposes. But to do her job successfully, she can’t get attached.

Now seventeen, Quinn is deft at recreating herself, sometimes confusing her own past with those of the people she’s portrayed. When she’s given her longest assignment, playing the role of Catalina Barnes, Quinn begins to bond with the deceased girl’s boyfriend. But that’s only the beginning of the complications, especially when Quinn finds out the truth about Catalina’s death. And the epidemic it could start.

Review

This was quite a roller coaster. It gave me a lot of the same fee

lings as The Program. Ms. Young does a great job of addressing serious topics like death and suicide.

The main feeling I had while reading this was trippy. Quinn is like the most intense method acting. And this is a great use of first person. As she gets confused about who she is, so did I as the reader. It was a really weird feeling, but The Program was the same.

I definitely got emotional while reading this-there were tears. And this was a good addition to the Program series. And I'm eager to read the next book and she what happens next.

Thanks for reading!
Holly