I’m part of the book tour for Eazee Life by Billie Hill. Thanks to ZooLoo’s Book Tours and Billie Hill for my copy of the book to join the tour today.
What is it that makes you human?
The ability to pass your genes on into the future?
Or maybe it’s how rich you are.
Could it be the fact that you were born and have the right to a soul?
But what about Benedict?
A clone.
Not born but grown in a tank to fulfil a purpose not his own?
Is it his capacity to care, to love that will make him human?
2123. How the world has changed from the before time. Genetically modified corn, spread across the world by powerful companies and meant to save mankind from famine, ultimately condemns it to infertility and the spectre of annihilation. Hydraulic fracking has laid most of the Sovereign State of England to waste.
But this is a world where if you are rich enough you can have your twisted genes modified which gives you the right to a life of pampered luxury.
The poor, unable to afford the ‘procedure’ are viewed as wastes .
It’s a sweet life for a zenith breeder like seventeen year old Benny Blackwood, whose father’s extensive fracking has caused the air and water to become contaminated. Terrified of his own contamination, his father Charles builds a great Pod to keep his family and the most wealthy safe.
The NON breeders like Indian girl Ketty, her black friend Tish and her older brother Cody must live on the edge, hungry and persecuted in Zones outside the Pod, surviving through the always winter.
How can they escape the path laid out for them? Their only hope is to join the Macchia, the only resistance to the government.
The route out of the Zone is fraught with dangers, especially as they’ve made a serious enemy of Benny.
Eazee Life is the first book in the Eazee Life Trilogy
A young adult dystopian fantasy that’s set 100 years in the future. We see a world that is not recognisable. Decimated by the human race with segregation, the norm between rich and poor. To add to that, GM foods have created a sterile population on a global scale. Those who can afford to have their genes modified are the only ones who can breed. This brings yet another division of breeders and non breeders.
Teenage Ketty and her friends join a government resistance group when they decide they have had enough of being second class citizens.
I was immersed almost immediately. The world building was brilliant. I could easily believe that the world could be in this state by the time we reach this period. Not just dystopian, I got distinctive speculative vibes from this intriguing and captivating book. I took a liking to the teenage characters in this story. Ketty, Tish, and Cody are all just fabulous, and I could totally understand why they would join the Macchia against the government.
The idea of Eazee Life, which creates clones for the very rich, who send them out to do the things they really dont want to do, was abhorrent to me. Benny is someone who can afford a clone, and he gets one, Benedict.
I love a young adult book anyway, and this incorporates a lot more than just Young Adult. Billie Hill has written this very well. Like I say, it’s immersive, captivating, and after I really settled into it, it is also addictive. A book that deals with highly relevant issues of our future and the future of the planet. Billie Hill so easily creates a topical and interesting read.
Book Links
Goodreads https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/195852060-eazee-life
Buy Links https://mybook.to/eazeelife-zbt
Author Bio
Hilly attended Rochester College of Art to experience an excellent Foundation Course, which led to a degree course in Graphic Design at Central School of Art and Design in London. Here, she led a colourful life, which she has woven into many of her stories.
After her degree course, she went on a woodworking course to make furniture. Combining her art and woodworking skills, she got a stall at Covent Garden Craft Market to sell hand-made chess and backgammon sets.
She moved to Brighton, a fabulous city but, after teaching Design Technology for fifteen years, she gave it all up to relocate to Órgiva in southern Spain. She has been here for the last seven years, living happily in an old farmhouse on an organic fruit farm in the mountains, with her partner and two rescue dogs.
Hilly is also part of Artists’ Network Alpujarra (ANA), a community of artists who have exhibited extensively in the region of the Alpujarra. She also makes ceramics, jewellery, and up-cycles anything not nailed down.
Hilly writes under the pen name of Billie Hill for her YA work. Eazee Life is book one of a trilogy.
She has two adult psychological thrillers published with Bloodhound Books and two to be published with Hobeck Books.
Author’s Links
Instagram https://www.instagram.com/hillyollie
Facebook https://www.facebook.com/HillyOllieBarmby/
Twitter https://twitter.com/Hilly_Barmby
TikTok https://www.tiktok.com/@hillybarmby387
Website https://www.hillybarmbyauthor.com/
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