Recent Reads: Golden State by Ben H. Winters

My review: 🌟🌟🌟🌟🌟

We are in the Golden State, where everyone speaks the truth, records their daily activities, and are monitored everywhere.  

But this is a good thing, because we tell each other facts as a form of greeting.  There are Speculators, those with the power to sense a lie, and Lazlo Ratesic is one of these.  He's been a Speculator for 10 years, and always worked alone.

Until today, when he is assigned Aysa Paige to mentor.  She has an even greater gift for lies.  She can sense when objects are wrong or missing, and this skill helps with the case that they are sent out on.

This was a very well crafted world, where all of this monitoring is justified at all times, and talked about in such a positive way that you can see the brain washing that has been carried out on the inhabitants of the Golden State, which is set in California.

This is a post apocalyptic tale, with you only finding out this at the very end of the book, but isn't something that impacts the tale.

I really enjoyed this book, and would thoroughly recommend it.  It would be classified as sci-fi for the lie detection powers, and because it's post apocalyptic.

Golden State is out now, and is available on Amazon, and everywhere else you can find books!  It was published on 24th January this year.

I was given this book for free in return for an unbiased review, so my thanks to NetGalley and to Random House, and Cornerstone (the publishers) for this book.

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