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“An ingenious exploration of gender roles, female identity, and female competition.”
— BuzzFeed
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“A dark dream. A vivid nightmare. The world O’Neill imagines is frightening because it could come true. She writes with a scalpel.”
— Jeanette Winterson, award-winning English author
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“Terrifying and heartbreaking, O’Neill’s story reads like an heir to Margaret Atwood’s The Handmaid’s Tale and M. T. Anderson’s Feed, and, like those books, it’s sure to be discussed for years to come.”
— Publishers Weekly (starred review)
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“Dark and unrelenting…Recommended [for] older teens looking for more depth in their dystopian fiction.”
— Library Journal
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Unbelievably believable, compelling, utterly riveting... Whilst it is dark, uncompromising and utterly daunting to read as a woman, it is and should be a classic in the making.
— Liz Loves Books
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Dark and thought-provoking... There are some good Logan's Run shivers, and it is beautifully written.
— Tara Flynn, The Irish Times
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A haunting dystopian novel for fans of The Handmaid's Tale
— Refinery29
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O'Neill has talent to burn; this dystopian YA debut is both compelling and frightening.
— Irish Examiner
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An ingenious exploration of gender roles, female identity, and female competition.
— Buzzfeed
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Winner of the 2014 Sunday Independent Newcomer of the Year Award at the BGE Irish Book Awards
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A dark dream. A vivid nightmare. The world O'Neill imagines is frightening because it could come true. She writes with a scalpel."—Jeanette Winterson
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Disturbing, provocative . . . I was utterly captivated from beginning to end.
— Gabriel Byrne ("In Treatment," "The Usual Suspects," "Miller's Crossing)
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Compelling writing and a brutal conclusion means this only-too-real dystopia grips from beginning to end.
— SFX Magazine
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O'Neill's story reads like an heir to Margaret Atwood's The Handmaid's Tale and M.T. Anderson's Feed, and, like those books, it's sure to be discussed for years to come.
— Publishers Weekly, starred review
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If the Hunger Games series was your guilty pleasure then young Irish author Louise O' Neill's debut novel Only Ever Yours is about to become another... [It] explores the contemporary pressure on women and girls to be 'perfect' in this dark and gripping narrative.
— Irish Tatler
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[A] terrifying but captivating book.
— Company magazine
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A beautifully written, remarkable debut. the near-future world, after a climate-change apocalypse, is fully imagined and vividly realized. The claustrophobic, insular lives of 16-year-old girls as they struggle against themselves and each other will ring eerily true for today's teens.
— Common Sense Media
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Deep, dark and frighteningly believable. This story will stay with you for a long time.
— Marie Claire
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A witty and unsettling story...Hopefully Only Ever Yours will be read widely.
— The Telegraph
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Utterly magnificent . . . gripping, accomplished and dark.
— Marian Keyes