First published 2016
Freida lives in a School where girls called eves learn to please men. At sixteen, she faces her final year of training. The top ten most beautiful girls will become companions, wives to powerful men. The rest become concubines or teachers condemned to lifelong chastity. Freida expects to succeed alongside her best friend Isabel. But Isabel begins destroying herself, endangering her beauty and her chances. When the boys arrive to select their brides, Freida discovers she must choose between her future and her friendship. In this sealed world where women exist only for male pleasure, survival means betraying the person she loves most.
Genres: dystopia, gender-studies, feminism, young-adult
Vibes: dark, emotional, thought-provoking
Tropes: enemies-to-lovers, forced-proximity
Setting: School
Period: 21st-century
416 pages · Paperback · Quercus
Content warnings: sexism