With shades of Scott Westerfeld’s Uglies and Ally Condie’s Matched, this dark, cinematic dystopian novel-the first in the thrilling Vision from the Beholder series-is occur a near future society in which ‘right’ and ‘wrong’ are manifested by beauty and ugliness.

In Sophistication Luther’s world, morality is certainly physically enforced. Those who find themselves ‘great’ are blessed with beauty, while those who find themselves not suffer horrifying consequences-disfigurement, and even loss of life. When the cleric’s little girl stumbles onto about Sinless info that shows her world can be more complicated than it appears, she discovers herself at the guts of an epic fight where good and evil aren’t so easily recognized. Despite all her efforts to live a standard teenage life, Grace is confronted with some decisions that may risk the lives of everybody she loves.

With for each minute, Sarah Tarkoff masterfully tightens the screws within this electrifying debut novel that plunges us right into a nightmarish and all too plausible future. Filled with high-drama and pulsating pressure, Sinless explores important questions teenagers wrestle with each day: What’s beauty? What is faith? Where will a friendly relationship end and love begin? Do we take the world at face value and accept all that we have been taught-or perform we question the mores of the culture into which we are created?

Chilling and thought-provoking, Sinless is essential listening for followers of The Food cravings Video games, Divergent, The Maze Runner, The Giver, and Delirium.