One of Entertainment Weeklyâs â10 prescient new feminist dystopias to read after The Handmaidâs Taleâ; one of the â11 Best Summer Books Of 2018â by Women's Health; this âperfect beach bookâ (Entertainment Report) follows the search for a missing sister in a near-future world where infertility has produced a dangerous underground.
âFind her. You need to keep looking, no matter what. Iâm afraid of what mightâve happened to her. You be afraid too.â After months of disturbing behavior, Gardner Quinn has vanished. Her older sister Fredericka is desperate to find her, but Fred is also pregnantâmiraculously so, in a near-future America struggling with infertility. So she entrusts the job to their brother, Carter.
Carter, young but jaded, is in need of an assignment. Just home from war, his search for his sister is a welcome distraction from mysterious physical symptoms he canât ignore, not to mention his increasing escape into the bottom of a glass.
Carterâs efforts to find Gardner lead him into a desperate underworld, where he begins to grasp the risks she took on as a Nurse Completionist. But his investigation also leads back to their father, a veteran of a decades-long war just like Carter himself, who may be concealing a painful truth, one that neither Carter nor Fredericka is ready to face.
âFans of dystopian novels will love Siobhan Adcockâs disturbing speculation on just how bad things can get when resources are rare and personal lives are heavily policedâ (Booklist). In the tradition of The Handmaidâs Tale, The Completionist is speculative fiction at its very best: it will âtransport you to an entirely new worldâ (PopSugar) while revealing our own world in bold and unexpected ways.