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Synopsis
Escaping a life of marginalization and misery, Kitty Doe joins the most powerful family in the country, a choice that requires her to assume the identity of the Prime Minister's niece and stop a rebellion that ended her predecessor's life. Seventeen-year-old Kitty Doe faces the seemingly easy choice between living a life of misery or joining the most powerful family in the country. The plot contains profanity, sexual references, and graphic violence.
Is Pawn (The Blackcoat Rebellion #1) appropriate for my child?
Suitable for most readers 14 and up.
This dystopian YA novel contains graphic violence including death scenes and rebellion-related violence, moderate profanity, and sexual references. The intense themes of class warfare, political manipulation, and forced identity change may be disturbing for younger readers.
What to know going in
This book has strong violence, mild sexual content, and moderate language. Content notes include graphic violence, death, and violence (see the full list above).
Who'll love this
Teens will be gripped by Kitty's desperate transformation from poverty to power and her dangerous mission to stop a rebellion while living as someone else.