Early Review: The Culling by Steven Dos Santos

The Culling

(The Torch Keeper)

Author: Steven Dos Santos

Publisher: Flux, 2013

Genre: YA Dystopia

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Overview

Lucian “Lucky” Spark has been recruited for training by the totalitarian government known as The Establishment. According to Establishment rules, if a recruit fails any level of the violent training competitions, a family member is brutally killed . . . and the recruit has to choose which one.

As the five recruits form uneasy alliances in the hellish wasteland that is the training ground, an undeniable attraction develops between Lucky and the rebellious Digory Tycho. But the rules of the training ensure that only one will survive—the strongest recruits receive accolades, wealth, and power while the weakest receive death.

With Cole—Lucky’s four-year-old brother—being held as “incentive,” Lucky must marshal all his skills and use his wits to keep himself alive, no matter what the cost.

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The Culling
by Steven Dos Santos

~What it is~

          “Every Recruit is given an equal oportunity to advance to the next level of their training." He hold up his hand before I can protest. "Yes, it's unfortunate that the Recruit who achieves the lowest score after each round must undergo The Culling--"
"Stop sterilizing it!" I hug my knees. "The loser of each trial has to choose between the lives of two people they love, and if they can't do that, all three of them die. That's sick.”