I'm always a sucker for a dystopia. Even though the book had romance as its main plot, the setting kept me reading. Everybody's assigned at birth to a job, usually a horrendous one, and trained to know nothing more than the necessary amount of knowledge to fulfill that job. They all go home to slums, with each one-room house having a handy video camera in it. Most of the world is sealed off to them and they only know what they're supposed to. Helper 12 is one of them. She has a friend but nobody that she really cares about, until she and one of the babies she presides over are sold to a rich family that lives outside the system, in Society. They are so rich that they have their own child and are getting a new one. They experience things like grass and wood and personal servants.
The son of the two that bought Helper 12, Thomas, quickly and for literally no reason at all falls in love with Helper 12. No reason. Just "Hey, can you sit at the dinner table with me just because? Oh, whoops, I fell in love!" There is never an explanation. Besides that, though, the story doesn't seem to have any major flaws. It's a good light read for somebody who loves dystopias and doesn't have much time before she has to post in her blog again.
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