The Innocence Treatment By: Ari Goelman

The Innocence Treatment ****

By: Ari Goelman

This was a great book that I wish had been 2-3 times longer than it was. It had me hooked from page 1. The last page came way too soon.

The author builds the background conditions, and our characters, as living in the United States after there have been 2 “uprisings”. The conditions are pretty dire. For a time after the 1^st uprising, the power grid went down, the Government shut down, we infer that martial law was declared because the story mentions “troops everywhere”. The Department of Security, Defense, and Well-Being has enacted a law known as “The Emergency Act” which allows greatly heightened surveillance and prosecution OF the American people BY the Government.

Living under these conditions, in the year 2031, begins actions that are referenced in the story, it has been 10 years.

This is the story of Lauren C. Fielding, a 16 year old girl, and the experimental brain surgery that she was told would “fix” her “imperfect” brain. She was told it would make her smarter > make her normal. This is the story of how she became “The Innocent Girl”.

After brain surgery, Lauren is under care of a Psychologist. She is confined in a “facility”. She is kept either sedated and/or physically restrained whenever she is to interact with her care givers and her Psychologist. She is said to be having paranoid delusions.

But is she?

Or is it all true?

The Innocent Girl. The girl who awakens the American people to the reality of the acts of the

U.S. Department of Security, Defense, and Well-Being against it's own citizens.

Great book for Young Adult readers and older. 

Thank You Netgalley and author, Ari Goelman for allowing me to read this ARC in exchange for my honest review.