Verify

Name: Verify
Brand: Harper Audio
Availability: InStock
Author: Joelle Charbonneau
ISBN: 9780062964540

Author: Joelle Charbonneau

Narrator: Caitlin Kelly

Unabridged: 9 hr 38 min

Format: Digital Audiobook Download

Publisher: HarperCollins

Published: 09/24/2019

Categories: Young Adult Fiction, Dystopian, Social Themes, Politics & Government

Synopsis

“Wow! Shades of Fahrenheit 451 and Orwell’s 1984. Painfully real and urgent. Read this book.” —Michael Grant, New York Times bestselling author of the Gone seriesBestselling author Joelle Charbonneau’s eerily timely, high-stakes page-turner is destined to start important conversations at this particular moment in our history. Meri Beckley lives in a world without lies. When she looks at the peaceful Chicago streets, she feels pride in the era of unprecedented hope and prosperity over which the governor presides.But when Meri’s mother is killed, Meri suddenly has questions that no one else seems to be asking. And when she tries to uncover her mother’s state of mind in her last weeks, she finds herself drawn into a secret world with a history she didn’t know existed.Suddenly, Meri is faced with a choice between accepting the “truth” or embracing a world the government doesn’t want anyone to see—a world where words have the power to change the course of a country and where the wrong ones can get Meri killed.

About Joelle Charbonneau

Joelle Charbonneau has performed in opera and musical-theater productions across Chicagoland. She is the author of the New York Times and USA Today bestselling Testing trilogy and the bestselling Dividing Eden series, as well as two adult mystery series and several other books for young adult readers. Her YA books have appeared on the Indie Next List, YALSA’s Top Ten Quick Picks for Reluctant Young Adult Readers, and state reading lists across the country. Joelle lives in the Chicago area with her husband and son. www.joellecharbonneau.com

Reviews

Goodreads review by emily on August 07, 2021

This book wasn't my favorite, but still okay overall. The main problem for me was that I couldn't connect with the characters, and that, unfortunately, was a bit of a deal breaker for me. Since relating to characters is often what really makes me enjoy a book, I felt myself skimming through a lot of......more

Goodreads review by Gerardine on June 09, 2021

Verify is the first book in Joelle Charbonneau Verify duology. With a slight resemblance to Fahrenheit 451 but YA we find ourselves in a future where the government has removed physical books, words from our vocabulary and they are censoring the reality of what is happening around us. The main chara......more

Goodreads review by Carlos on February 23, 2020

Nice promising new series. I have to know what happens next to the main characters and the plot . I did not like the insta love and some plot holes but otherwise the book was fine .......more

Goodreads review by Annette on September 23, 2019

Compelling and a bit scary, Verify is a book that needs to be read by many teens. Meri's world, a future Chicago, is as close to a utopia as any city has ever been. Everyone and everything is safe. There is no poverty and very little crime. The environment has been preserved, partly by getting rid of......more

Goodreads review by Rivka on October 03, 2021

I kind of really enjoyed it. But also I need to read book 2 now 😂......more