#BookReview By Lou of The Consequence of Choice By Natalie Sammons @N.sammonsauthor @Bloodhoundbook #LoveBooksTours #ConsequenceofChoiceTour

The Consequence of Choice
By Natalie Sammons

Today I am delighted to be closing the blog tour for The Consequences of Choice, a rather emotional and incredibly thought-provoking book. Find out more in the blurb and my review below. Thanks to Love Books Tours and Bloodhound Books for inviting me to review and for gifting me a copy of the book.

Blurb

In a world where motherhood can be a crime, a woman risks everything to defy those in power . . .

Ten years after the world took drastic action to rein in overpopulation, Elspeth suspects she is pregnant—illegally—after a brief, alcohol-fuelled fling with Nick. Even procuring a test to confirm it would be risky.

As Elspeth tries desperately to keep her condition hidden from the authorities, a female detective becomes convinced something illicit is going on—and tries to resuscitate her own troubled career by pursuing this lawbreaker. But behind the scenes, two people are determined to come to Elspeth’s aid. One is someone close to her who has a secret. The other is someone she would never have expected. Now, as danger closes in, how far will they go to keep Elspeth—and her unborn baby—safe?

Review

This book is, although a bit dystopian and dark, it is actually really thought-provoking in so many ways, in what you might do if you were in Elspeth’s and Alice’s shoes in the overpopulated world, making it very different from some other thrillers. I reckon readers of Margaret Atwood’s books might appreciate the insights and cerebral aspects of this book.

Professor Alice Franklin reckons a one child per family policy needs to be implemented because the world is overpopulated by humans. This book isn’t talking about hundreds of years into the future, this is only just a handful as it initially takes place in 2025 at a UN World Summit in France.
In just a decade’s time, so 2035, there are Enforcers who ensure this law, that has now come into place, is implemented. The policy then gets out of hand and humans now need state permission to have a child at all. It shows how a seemingly innocent policy to help alleviate an issue can soon explode into something quite different and take all sorts of twists and turns.

It’s an intriguing read that feels like what one might say, an “important” read in that it deals with topics that have been talked about for so many years now, such as the human population size in the world. I am sure this book will start many debates in book clubs.