Emma is in a hospital recovering from an accident. She doesn’t remember but knows it’s extensive. She doesn’t remember much from before. Her husband visits her often, but in her dreams she remembers another love. She also has disturbing dreams of someone trying to kill her when she was in a tank in the hospital.
While in the hospital, she begins to put things together about her world. Men outnumber women and apparently women’s fertility is down. Emma thinks that’s one thing they deal with at the clinic. She’s feeling comfortable with her husband but isn’t sure she wants to.breed right away.
This book is the first of two in this series by M.D. Waters. Prototype will be out this summer. I like the idea of that expedited timeline. Though it’s obvious there is more to the story, I felt that this one had a complete story arc as well.
CONTENT NOTE: The subject matter of Archetype is very appealing to teens, fitting right into that futuristic government-controlled type of story that is so popular in Young Adult literature right now. The jacket art and book cover are so appealing (to anyone of any age) with the purple and blue hues. It didn’t surprise me when my 15 year old daughter asked if she could read it, and when I requested it, I wondered if it would be a good crossover title.
But — she’s not going to read it. There’s a fair amount of language and married people doing the things that married people do, so I think it’s a better fit for adults.