The Remedy
Written by Suzanne Young
Narrated by Rebekkah Ross
4.5/5
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About this audiobook
In a world before The Program…
Quinlan McKee is a closer. Since the age of seven, Quinn has held the responsibility of providing closure to grieving families with a special skill—she can “become” anyone.
Recommended by grief counselors, Quinn is hired by families to take on the short-term role of a deceased loved one between the ages of fifteen and twenty. She’s not an exact copy, of course, but she wears their clothes and changes her hair, studies them through pictures and videos, and soon, Quinn can act like them, smell like them…be them. But to do her job successfully, she can’t get attached.
Now seventeen, Quinn is deft at recreating herself, sometimes confusing her own past with those of the people she’s portrayed. When she’s given her longest assignment, playing the role of Catalina Barnes, Quinn begins to bond with the deceased girl’s boyfriend. But that’s only the first of many complications, especially when Quinn finds out the truth about Catalina’s death. And the epidemic it could start.
Suzanne Young
Suzanne Young is the New York Times bestselling author of The Program series. Originally from Utica, New York, Suzanne moved to Arizona to pursue her dream of not freezing to death. She is a novelist and an English teacher, but not always in that order. Suzanne is also the author of Girls with Sharp Sticks, All in Pieces, Hotel for the Lost, and several other novels for teens. Visit her online at AuthorSuzanneYoung.com or follow her on Instagram at @AuthorSuzanneYoung.
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Reviews for The Remedy
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- Rating: 5 out of 5 stars5/5Quinlan McKee has mixed memories of her mother, sometimes remembering her looking one way, at others, looking differently. Either way, Mom's dead and that leaves just her dad who is part of a corporation supplying teens to temporarily replace dead children as a way to help their grieving families get through unresolved feelings that create roadblocks on the road to recovery.Quin has been one of these closers since she was seven. Most who serve in such a capacity do so for no more than two terms of three years each. She's in her fourth one and it's become as much of her self image as anything, maybe even to her detriment. In fact, her father seems at times, more concerned about her effectiveness as a closer than her emotional welfare.When she's booked for an assignment that's much longer than others and is far too soon after her last one in terms of protocol, she's intrigued, albeit worried. Deacon, a former closer who she's had a relationship with, is also concerned, but he's such an emotional enigma that Quin never knows where they stand.There's a new twist in this assignment. The dead girl's boyfriend is involved in the grief therapy and she starts feeling an attraction she knows isn't safe. What happens as she finds herself losing the ability to be objective and has her questioning everything about her life and her memories, makes this a gripping read with some real surprises at the end. In fact, I pre-ordered the sequel as soon as I finished this one. Teens who like odd mysteries and intrigue along with romantic suspense will really like this book.
- Rating: 5 out of 5 stars5/5Loved it I accidently read book 2 then this one.
- Rating: 5 out of 5 stars5/5The Remedy is the third novel of Suzanne Young that has captured my attention because her novels are a labyrinth that I want to delve; and question my objectives for my life.
- Rating: 5 out of 5 stars5/5i like i love the best book un the world
- Rating: 4 out of 5 stars4/5The first word that comes to mind is twisted. Then interesting.
Once I've thought it through and I'm over the shock of the twist in this series, I am able to think critically about the web that Suzanne Young weaved.
She started with deep characters, and that stays true throughout the series. The characters in The Remedy are deep, but in a different way. Quinn is the central character in The Remedy. Her job as a closer makes her like a morphling... she changed with every assignment, just building on her base. Young made her vulnerable, scared, and a girl looking for her own life. As she built the new characters on top of Quinn, these personal pieces faded from the surface but were still visible. I see this as quite beautiful writing. And after finishing the book, I had even more of an appreciation for this.
The other thing I really loved about this book was the psychological thriller aspect. I don't think the other two books contained as much as this one, and I felt compelled to know what is going on, what's coming next, and who is tied to it all. The answers, when they finally did come, left me shocked & disturbed - as good writing should!
The Remedy tells the story of what went down BEFORE The Program & Treatment. It adds a sufficient amount of creep factor and ties up some questions lingering from the previous books. This book is capable of standing on its own. You'll enjoy this if you've read the first books in the series, or if you happen to have an interest in how big brother could control us - Rating: 5 out of 5 stars5/5I wasn't sure how this book fit in with the series till almost the end. Good character development and plot. I would recommend it.
- Rating: 4 out of 5 stars4/5The Remedy is the prequel to Suzanne Young's The Program series, it features a different storyline with different characters but connects the story to the main series. That's why I recommend you read The Program and The Treatment first before moving on to the prequels.Set in a world before the inception of The Program and the existence of handlers, The Remedy tells the story of Quinn and her fellow closers. Closers are specially trained individuals who are hired by grieving families to impersonate deceased loved ones in order to get closure. It's such a creepy and implausible form of therapy if you think about it, but the author manages to make it believable, at least to some extent.As in the other books in this series, Quinn (main protagonist) is in love with a complicated, bad boy named Deacon (also a closer). I have to say though, that I like Quinn and Deacon better than Sloane and James. Yes, Quinn and Deacon are sickeningly in love with each other too, but their romantic scenes are more tolerable and genuine than Sloane and James. In keeping with the previous books in this series, and most YA books in general, there is a love triangle. Cringe.So Quinn is assigned to impersonate a girl named Catalina and in doing so she uncovers secrets about herself and the people she works for. Although this book didn't address the question of how the suicide epidemic started, to me this was a more interesting read than the previous books. For one, Quinn is a more likeable character than Sloane, plus there is better world building and the characters are more fleshed out. The revelations and twists kept me turning pages. Respect to Suzanne Young for coming up with a creative and effective way to extend her series.I give this book 4 out of 5 stars.
- Rating: 4 out of 5 stars4/5This is a prequel to "The Program," but it has its own themes. Would someone forget who they are if they constantly portrayed other people? Would it give people closure to have their deceased loved ones portrayed by skilled actresses? I'm not sure either would be true, but they were interesting thought experiments. No sequel was mentioned, but it was obvious there would be one, so I'm more than a little curious to read it and find out more about what's actually going on.