Book Two · The Divided Series
Caged
About the book
Rose never meant to become a threat. She only wanted answers.
Publisher’s Weekly’s BookLife Reviews calls Caged “a compelling, all-too-relevant novel for older teens or young adults.”
Selected for the FRA’s elite physics training program, Rose was supposed to be one of the lucky ones — a future secured, a place within the regime’s carefully constructed order. But the deeper she studies, the more the program’s polished surface begins to crack. The science doesn’t add up. The rules don’t make sense. And the people asking the same questions as Rose have a way of disappearing. When she digs too deep, she finds a truth so explosive it could bring the entire regime to its knees.
Dr. Weber, Queenstown’s iron-fisted dean of college, isn’t about to let a curious girl unravel everything he’s built. His orders are swift and brutal — silence Rose before she reaches anyone who will listen. Taken, caged, and broken down in ways she never imagined surviving, Rose discovers that the regime’s cruelty has no floor. But neither does her courage.
They thought they could break her. They forgot she already knew how to survive in a cage.
Perfect for fans of dark, high-stakes science fiction like Divergent, The Hunger Games, or Legend.
Content notes
Political violence, genocide, racist agendas, torture; written with restraint — never reveling in cruelty.
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Reviews
“Robinson keeps the urgency high and the pages turning as Rose’s revolutionary cohort works on uncovering plots of their own, trying to figure out who is stealing supplies meant for citizens, and why one of the dictator’s deadliest cronies has been sneaking around, possibly plotting violence. As Rose and company decode messages suggesting that the aging Supreme Commander is working on a super weapon, the heroes face surveillance, veiled threats, and the persistent tensions of resistance to autocracy, where motives become suspect and feelings, like truth itself, often must be suppressed. Storytelling is fleet and resonant, with Robinson mining relatable suspense from the performance of calm obedience while the heart yearns for freedom.”
— BookLife by Publisher’s Weekly
“Memorable, heartfelt, and entertaining, author CC Robinson’s Caged is a must-read addition to the Divided series and a fantastic dystopian YA thriller.”
— Author Anthony Avina
“A must read for fans of dystopian novels.”
— WhatYouTolkienAbout
“The emotions I as a reader experienced — there was anger, lots of fear, a sadness that took a while to go, but there was also hope and joy and at times laughter.”
— Sarah Reads