Q: An explosive thriller from the bestselling author of VOX

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Unfortunately for both Freddie and Elena their worst fears are realised the day the big yellow bus drives down their street and waits outside for Freddie to climb aboard. With no way of controlling the outcome, Elena can only watch as her tearful daughter is whisked away to who-knows-where with the knowledge that it may be some time before she sees her again. But few years ago she made two terrible mistake. For getting approval of her mean girls’ club she harassed a loner girl in her high school who ended her life and the other mistake was she chose to marry with a wrong guy who became a predator to serve the system for creating True Aryan Genesis. Malcolm Fairchild , has a respectable position in the government and works on genocide project to form an unique populated society consisted of white, rich, intelligent, chosen American people. ( Oh Malcolm, I haven’t read about a pure evil since I read true crime books about Manson family so you over exceeded my expectations! I don’t know how many times I screamed “Burn in hell” when I’m reading your parts! By the way, why do you carry similar name with Morgan Fairchild- a.k.a Chandler Bing’s mother- I love the author’s quirky and dark sense of humor!)

Any child knows time slows down in the days before Christmas; any bride knows time speeds up during a wedding reception. And any mother knows time flies in the years after she gives birth. What she finds there makes Elena question everything. Because this world is about perfection - and that comes at a terrible price.There are always two sides to everyone's story, and our main character here, Elena, seems like she has it all together until her daughter's Q scores drop. She starts to see the other side here, and things turn a little darker then I expected here in the story. Christina Dalcher does a great job weaving some dark realities of the past with the reality happening in the story. As well as some future realities here for us today; however, I did feel things have more thriller elements to the story to make me question if any of this could happen.

Now everyone must undergo routine tests for their quotient, Q, and any children who don’t measure up are placed into new government schools. Instead, teachers can focus on the gifted. I had kind of an idea of how this book was going to go thanks to reading Dalcher's first book (Vox) but whew. I was not prepared for this level of TENSION. Elena Fairchild is a teacher at one of the state’s new elite schools. Her daughters are exactly like her: beautiful, ambitious, and perfect. A good thing, since the recent mandate that’s swept the country is all about perfection. Mood inducing and provoking of thoughts and emotions, this is a quiet thriller, but no less scary. This was very imaginative! This is the second book written by Christina Dalcher. I read her first book, VOX, last year and unfortunately I really didn't enjoy it. My spoiler-filled, and equally loathsome, review for that can be found here: https://www.goodreads.com/review/show...Q started off well, with a family situation, two successful parents and two high-achieving children. However, the mask fell off and a hideous under layer was revealed. This was a story about IQ above every other facet of a person and it drilled down to emotive and polarising topics of elitism, abortion and someone’s personal worth. Elena Fairchild has a very busy morning. She has nine alarms set to make sure that her daughters don’t miss their school bus. The new educational system (Silver schools for the smartest, Green for the middle and Yellow for the bottom-tier students) has been in place for a while now. To say that Christina Dalcher’s writing astounds me is not enough. The fact is, I cannot do this novel justice. I simply adore her writing. A follow up to “Vox” - I had no idea what I was in for reading “Master Class” all I can say is that it was worth the wait. But I think what matters in this book is the consequences of all these people making choices, especially Elena. And sometimes, it may be too late to fix something that has gone out of control.

A partir del 50%, la novela abandona en parte esa premisa inicial y toma una deriva rara. Demasiadas cosas mezcladas al mismo tiempo sin terminar de cuajar ninguna. It doesn’t help that her husband is one of the creators of Q and this school system, their relationship is broken and the interaction between them is a joy ( as its so awful ) I mean, I get the idea of the school system, but parents and other people in the family are not supposed to fit in. My parents are poor but I’m a genius, why I can’t go to the best school? Also, you can’t really pretend to make a six-year-old girl study all day; kids have to be kids. The origins of the Q system (which the book spells out with chunks of thudding exposition, because like most American political writing this book has zero subtlety) lie in the searing hot-button topic of...the public education system, something that Americans are famously passionate about. We’re told that all classes of society--the conservative rural poors, the “champagne communists” (whatever those are) of the big-city penthouses, and the normal people who live in suburbs--rose up with one voice to demand that the government enact the Fitter Family Campaign’s sweeping reforms, such was the public furore over public school performance. When the villains want to push a new aspect of their agenda, like making the state schools boarding institutions or moving them far out into the boonies so the kids will never see their families again, all they need to do is invoke the dread spectre of classroom overcrowding and all dissent immediately vanishes. The husband, the father and also the man in charge of the tier system. A very cold human, with no remorse, no empathy, very arrogant and extremely manipulative. Watching Elena’s relationship with him reveal and uncover scenes from the past was an interesting concept I enjoyed about this book. We also had a small opportunity to find about how the two daughters felt as well. Children are able to feel something is wrong with their parents or their lives. They have their own opinions as well, that define the actions they might made. This was beautifully shown in a few scenes in the book.

When I read the plot I just knew this was a book made for me, and reading it I understood my instinct wasn't wrong. This book is not for everyone. But if you want it darker, surely the author gives you the flame. Well done! Salute! Elena somewhat supported it but...has had her doubts for a while now but her husband is a staunch supporter. He's partly responsible for the new tiered system for education in the US. I keep reading the news and see the winnings of right-wing populists at all over the world starting from European countries to Brazil, including some of the Eastern, Middle Eastern countries and of course in the US. You may not have noticed this, but I like reading bad books. When a novel lets me down, my immediate reaction isn’t to cast its author out of my Kindle wishlist for all time; it’s to take a keen interest in whatever they write next.