Occupational hazard for the other characters. Then again, that kinda happens to all characters in First Person narratives. She had enough of the Tough Chick thing I like so much going on, and Sam was also great–although did feel a bit backseat to Ina. I definitely liked both characters a great deal and enjoyed Ina as a narrator. If the worldbuilding was the star, Ina and Sam were a close second, if not a tie. Yet even as they try to breed out the impure, the pure world only exists on their backs because they do what the pures do not: like be “real” cops, such as Ina and Sam. Our author penned a setting where humanity is trying to survive by sectioning the “pure” (who aren’t sick/have no genetic flaws) from the “impure.” And with the way people segment themselves in ‘real life,’ it doesn’t feel far off a possibility.
The star of this story was definitely the world building. I don’t know that this book necessarily categorized as “dystopian,” but it definitely had that feel to it and it achieved what the most successful ones do. The most successful dystopian settings are the ones that don’t feel that far off are the ones that feel like if the world was tweaked just so, we could possibly end up there. (I received this book free in exchange for an honest review, as part of this book's blog tour. With too many suspects and not enough time, they must find that connection before the killer strikes again. When a third murder is discovered, Ina and Sam know there’s a connection. Resources have become too scarce to hide, and a black market for medicine comes to light. Yet the Pures may have created a world in which even they don’t want to live anymore. And when her life is threatened, she must learn to rely on Sam, whose interest in her seems more than just professional. An Impure herself, Ina must overcome her defect. The case is anything but straightforward, and in an uncertain future, where resources are limited and the genetically defective are banished to a ghetto territory for Impures, Chief Detective Ina Stone and her partner, rookie detective Sam Fujimoto, must cross into Pure Territory to find a killer. A headless, gutted corpse washed up on shore with a beautiful, dead teenager. A murdered society debutante, her body sprinkled with 89 Costa Rican butterflies.
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