About the Book
It’s impossible
to know what you will do…
Every child’s potential is regularly determined by a
standardized measurement: their quotient (Q). Score high enough, and attend a
top tier school with a golden future. Score too low, and it’s off to a federal
boarding school with limited prospects afterwards. The purpose? An improved
society where education costs drop, teachers focus on the more promising
students, and parents are happy.
When your child is taken from you.
Elena Fairchild is a teacher at one of the state’s elite
schools. When her nine-year-old daughter bombs a monthly test and her Q score
drops to a disastrously low level, she is immediately forced to leave her top
school for a federal institution hundreds of miles away. As a teacher, Elena
thought she understood the tiered educational system, but as a mother whose
child is now gone, Elena’s perspective is changed forever. She just wants her
daughter back.
And she will do the unthinkable to make it happen.
My Review
This book actually gave me the chills several times. It felt eerily too … familiar and believable, especially during the COVID-19 pandemic. In a lot of my book reviews I praise a novel saying ‘I could be transported to the setting and fit right in with the characters’ and that’s a little too true for this book. Master Class was intense, thought-provoking, and left me feeling breathless more than once. A multi-layered story of motherhood and marriage, science versus humanity, and will leave readers asking themselves hard questions along the way. There were just a couple plot points that I didn’t feel were fully developed but otherwise this was an incredibly strong story and I highly suggest you give this chilling, perhaps cautionary story, a read.
4.5 stars
