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Numbers Game: Numbers Game Saga Book 1 Audible Audiobook – Unabridged

Rebecca Rode (Author), Stacey Glemboski (Narrator), Author Rebecca Rode (Publisher)
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Treena is nervous for Rating Day. A single number will brand her forever - a valuable citizen, or a pathetic waste of space. Her top-Rated boyfriend is confident their scores will coincide so they can attend the academy together. But when the big day arrives, her true number shocks everyone.

To get her life and boyfriend back, she must go undercover and expose a military spy. Doesn't sound too hard, except that someone wants her dead. And then there's Vance, the mysterious soldier with a haunted past and beautiful brown eyes. Together, they discover a dark numbers conspiracy, one that shatters the nation's future. Treena must join up with Vance if she is to survive the dangerous game of numbers - and the terrible war that rages within her heart.

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  1. Listening Length
    9 hours and 15 minutes
  2. Author
    Rebecca Rode
  3. Narrator
    Stacey Glemboski
  4. Audible release date
    December 6, 2015
  5. Language
    English
  6. Publisher
    Author Rebecca Rode
  7. ASIN
    B018WLZH1K
  8. Version
    Unabridged
  9. Program Type
    Audiobook
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Listening Length 9 hours and 15 minutes
Author Rebecca Rode
Narrator Stacey Glemboski
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Audible.com Release Date December 06, 2015
Publisher Author Rebecca Rode
Program Type Audiobook
Version Unabridged
Language English
ASIN B018WLZH1K
Best Sellers Rank #190,194 in Audible Books & Originals (See Top 100 in Audible Books & Originals)
#824 in Science Fiction for Teens
#2,303 in Teen & Young Adult Dystopian
#34,805 in Teen & Young Adult Literature & Fiction

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Robert Willes
5.0 out of 5 stars great read
Reviewed in the United States on April 29, 2024
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It was a fun ride. Unexpected was the game of the Empress, though not entirely surprising considering the selfishness and greed of such people. Great story!
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4.0 out of 5 stars Pretty good
Reviewed in the United States on March 21, 2024
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Feels a lot like "Matched" and "Divergent." I liked the story and the characters in book one. I'm not sure if I will go on to read the rest of the series.
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3.0 out of 5 stars A Rebel without a Cause
Reviewed in the United States on August 30, 2017
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This was an interesting story and with society giving us numbers and passwords for everything these days it is not that much of a stretch having a number that defines who you are in the future. I would have preferred a wrist implant rather than it being implanted in your head but the idea was definitely original. The story starts out innocently enough with students awaiting their test scores until the "perfect life" Treena had worked and dreamed of started unraveling. The characters apart from Dresden who I pictured as the popular Jock from school type were interesting and well developed although sometimes the story seemed a bit far fetched. I would have liked more backstory on how the ratings were given, a description of what the students had to do to be given a high score and what jobs they were qualified to apply for.
I did guess the Empresses secret as that was the only thing that made sense in my head after questioning the circumstances about why Treena was put in the line of fire. The rebellion seemed to fizzle out before it had even begun which was disappointing as I had envisioned more of a fight like in Hunger Games or Divergent. So many people were not happy with the system apart from a select group so the chance of freedom should have been a huge incentive to fight back and yet the outcome was more of the same. I did question why Vance made the choices he did in the end and I am sure it will be explained more in the next book. There were a few surprises and I feel that Treena made the right decision in the end and stayed true to who she was. I cannot wait to see what happens in the next book as I am hooked on this series now and need to find out what happens next.
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Skyfiredancer
5.0 out of 5 stars Smart dystopian tale with a do-or-die heroine that you'll want to root for
Reviewed in the United States on September 10, 2016
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Enjoyable well written dystopian story about Ametrine, but friends and family call her Treena. This story starts out on her Rating day. One thing I would have liked to have seen in this book was a little more backstory so that I could understand exactly what it was that went into the numbers assigned on rating day. A bit more of a peek into their upper crust society that Treena lived in before her Rating day. You do get an idea as you read the book, but I think a chapter or two spent just following her on an ordinary day prior to Rating day might have given us much more insight into their society. But that is just a cosmetic quibble on my part.

I am striving to make this spoiler free as possible - so I will be vague. After Treena is given her Rating, isn't happy with it, then given her special assignment and incorporated into an elite team....I was a little "umm, WTF?" It just didn't fit. But that was again because I knew nothing about Treena prior to her Rating day. I could see no way she could fit into this team and survive, but she physically kept up and then some and I was about ready to call BS on the author until she mentions that she had been involved with a very physical sport that enabled her to have the abilities to run without getting winded after 3 blocks. Her physical training I will call BS on - there is no way she can learn as much special PT as she did in the short amount of time that she did. Read the book, you will see what I mean.

I know so far I have been pointing out negative things....but to me that is a compliment - if a book really makes me THINK, it has my attention and it has me involved with the plot. I was very involved to the point that I was actually thinking about their number system and how it was almost like a caste system. A caste system is a class structure that is determined by birth. Loosely, it means that in some societies, if your parents are poor, you're going to be poor, too. Same goes for being rich, if you're a glass-half-full person. In this case, who you parent is does influence your number and your number will influence your parents number once you are rated. Typically once in a caste system there is no breaking the boundary, so if you are born to a lower class family, you have no hope of ever rising above that - the same is to be said of the Rating system....to me that is a flawed system that this society has instituted.

That last paragraph right there shows you the sign of a book well worth reading if it makes you question society as a whole. Even though the US doesn't participate in a caste system, we do. We just do it without acknowledging it. This book is about looking at someone and judging them at first glance - by the number on their forehead. In the US we all know that we have done that - looked at a person and judged them for one reason or another at first glance, we simply do not have a government in place to enforce that system as Rebecca Rode has created in this book.

In summation, I highly recommend reading this book and the sequel, plus the additional stories. If you aren't like me and like to think a book to death sometimes, it is still a thoroughly enjoyable, well paced read. I love the character Treena, she is relatable, spunky and you root for her all through the book. It took me a little while to warm up to Vance, but I understood where he was coming from and I thought he was the perfect Yin to her Yang. I read thru book 1 and 2 in almost 1 sitting and now I'm eagerly waiting for book 3.
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Karen Pellett
4.0 out of 5 stars I took the day off today from doing pretty much everything (except making my daughter's birthday cake) so ...
Reviewed in the United States on April 1, 2015
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I ordered this book last week, but saved reading it until I could have the author (and friend and critique buddy) sign it last night at the official release party. So yeah. I took the day off today from doing pretty much everything (except making my daughter's birthday cake) so that I could read this book. I could not put it down. Part of it was from fascination to see how the final product fared against the beta draft I read a while ago. Part of it is because of the story itself. Let's just say . . .I loved the final product. It is strong, compelling, and hard to put down.

I love the split point of view between Treena and Vance. I was intrigued by each person's character growth. The secondary characters are strong and definitely add to the story. The part I love most though is the creation of the world, to the point it was its own character to me. Everything about the world was vivid, impressive, and complex. It impacted everyone and everything. The tendrils of information about the past are given smoothly and not an info dump and definitely strengthen the story. Its a fascinating world that Rebecca created.

Some of the timing was slightly confusing to me, but some of that could be because my kids had to be fed and all, and I might have missed something. Especially when it came to the development of the relationship between Vance and Treena, but that's because I'm a sucker for drawing that kind of thing out.

Despite any of that I still stand by what I had told Rebecca previously, "This story is better than Scott Westerfeld's book Uglies . . . and I LOVE that book."
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BigDee
5.0 out of 5 stars Very enjoyable
Reviewed in the United States on March 13, 2024
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Addictive. I grabbed one book after the other in this series. Constant action, betrayal, fighting and more.
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Ariene
5.0 out of 5 stars good story
Reviewed in the United Kingdom on October 20, 2023
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Good clear wiritng, nice flow. Similar to Divergent but different enough to keep you guessing and drop some unexpected plot twists.
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Janet
4.0 out of 5 stars Unfair numbers
Reviewed in Canada on January 31, 2024
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I enjoyed how it started out with her being on top of the world then she gets knocked down. She tries to do her time. As she goes about doing the jobs that she is assigned to do until she finds out that where she is at and the number she has been given have been given from the empress to stop anyone from taking her spot at the top. She then meets someone she never thought that she would like someone other than Dres. She also gets to finally meet her father and learn what had happen for him to leave her & her mother.
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Heather
4.0 out of 5 stars enjoyed the read
Reviewed in Australia on July 25, 2023
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Definitely needed the part two for this one. A corrupt system, a corrupt ruler destroying family’s and lives the number systems the people lived by keeping them forever divided…. Love it
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Planet_Reading
4.0 out of 5 stars Four Stars
Reviewed in the United Kingdom on April 24, 2017
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Good plot, action packed, entertaining. Liked it!
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Holly
3.0 out of 5 stars An ok read
Reviewed in the United Kingdom on July 30, 2023
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Not setting the world alight but a good read for those who like hunger games, divergent etc.
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