One of Entertainment Regular’s “10 prescient new feminist dystopias to learn following the Handmaid’s Story”; among the “11 Greatest Summer Books Of 2018” by Women’s Wellness; this “perfect beach book” (Entertainment Survey) comes after the search for a lacking sister in a near-future world where infertility offers produced a dangerous underground.

“Find her. You need to keep looking, no real matter what. I’m scared of what might’ve occurred to her. You be afraid too.” After weeks of disturbing behavior, Gardner about The Completionist Quinn offers vanished. Her old sister Fredericka is definitely desperate to discover her, but Fred is also pregnant—miraculously so, in a near-future America struggling with infertility. Therefore she entrusts the work to their sibling, Carter.

Carter, small but jaded, is in need of an assignment. Simply home from battle, his seek out his sister is certainly a pleasant distraction from secret physical symptoms he can’t disregard, not forgetting his increasing escape into the bottom of a cup.

Carter’s initiatives to find Gardner lead him into a desperate underworld, where he starts to grasp the risks she took in being a Nurse Completionist. But his analysis also leads back to their dad, a veteran of the decades-long war exactly like Carter himself, who may be concealing an agonizing truth, one which neither Carter nor Fredericka is preparing to face.

“Followers of dystopian books will love Siobhan Adcock’s disturbing speculation on just how poor things can get when assets are rare and personal lives are heavily policed” (Booklist). In the custom of The Handmaid’s Story, The Completionist is certainly speculative fiction at its very best: it will “transport you to a completely new world” (PopSugar) while uncovering our own world in daring and unexpected methods.