What Fiction are you reading this week, March 3, 2019?

[PoindexterOglethorpe]

3. Just finished The Rule of One

by Ashley Saunders and Leslie Saunders. Some time in the future, the United States has effectively cut itself off from the rest of the world. Global warming has gotten really bad, and 75 years before the start of the book a One Child policy was put into effect and ruthlessly enforced. As you might anticipate, the book revolves around 18 year old identical twins, only one of whom is official. They take turns going to school and so on. So far they've gotten away with it, but that's about to change. Oh, and the highly ironical part is that their father is the head of the Texas Family Planning Division.

What I actually had a lot of trouble with is that apparently 75 years of a one child policy hasn't made a dent in the overpopulation problem, which simply wasn't believable for me.

Oh, and Ashley and Leslie are themselves identical twins.

I expect there will be a sequel.