If all the Surpluses were sterilized, then why the hell were the girls having periods back at Grange Hall? Why were the nights of sleeping on the floor during menstruation not mentioned? Then we find out that Anna is pregnant and everyone is so happy and excited for her. While we're on the subject of pregnancy, Anna is stupid. We already felt bad that she got left behind in the last book, so now the author has to drag poor Sheila out and have her impregnated with 12 fetuses?!? What.
But I found that the author's choice of using Sheila to be a little manipulative. Okay, I get it-the Surpluses aren't really human, so we can experiment on them. The last 100 pages got really graphic and voyeuristic. But I digress, I was so relieved when Anna signed it so that the story could move on!!! She shouldn't have her Declaration anyway. Why did the pair have their Declarations, anyway? Peter is a year older than Anna, so he was the one turning 16 Anna would only be 14 or 15. The first 200 pages could be summed up as "should we or should we not sign the Declaration?" That's it. Now she's taking care of a baby and cooking nice meals and acting like a regular ol' Legal? How does Anna even know how to do anything? She said in the last book that she only knew that babies cried. Yes, the 15- and 14-year-old are playing house, including all the grown-up aspects of that. Peter and Anna are living together, taking care of Anna's one-year-old brother, Ben. This book is the sequel to The Declaration, and picks up pretty much right after it.
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