A harsh new world full of manipulation and odd relationships

After reading the trilogy about Shepard and Claire and then the prelude to this story and now this I have a fair understanding of the world these stories are set in. It is an interesting world, but I have to say that this Dome seems worse then the one that Shepard destroyed. The book starts with a rape scene in public, allows for a wife to be set aside for other mates, the man choose how the Omega acts, and Betas are essentially slaves in this Dome. I did enjoy seeing Shepard and Claire and seeing how they are doing...the ending of their trilogy was so sad, so it was great to see that while not great they are working on being better. Jacques seems to be a master manipulator and I am interested to see how these work out with what he did to Jules in the future.

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