Life First by RJ Crayton Review

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Strong-willed Kelsey Reed must escape tonight or tomorrow her government will take her kidney and give it to someone else

In this future forged by survivors of pandemics that wiped out
80 percent of the world’s population, life is valued above all else. Those who refuse the obligations of “Life First” are sentenced to death.

Kelsey enlists the help of her boyfriend Luke and a dodgy doctor to escape. The trio must disable the tracking chip in her arm for her to flee undetected. If they fail, Kelsey will be stripped of everything.

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A BRIEF NOTE about the story's origin from author RJ Crayton:

The way this novel originated was a bit of a fluke. I saw a story on the news about a woman who refused to have a cesarean section because she didn't want to be -- if I recall the wording correctly -- "sliced open like a pig." The woman's baby died because of her refusal. I was horrified by the situation and thought the woman awful for refusing surgery to save her child. However, the more I thought about the issue, I wondered if I was being fair. I asked myself, how often are we told we need to have a surgery, with potentially life-threatening consequences, to save someone else's life? Should she have to be sliced open to save her husband? Her brother? A neighbor? I wondered, what would it be like to live in a world like that, where we must undergo invasive procedures to our bodies in order to save another's life? I started writing Life First soon after, with just that one question in my mind. The analogy to pregnancy isn't quite perfect, as you have to eventually get a baby out by some means. As the maternal mortality rate in many third-world countries shows, maternal health is often inextricably linked with that of the baby. But, this news story was enough to plant the seed of Life First in my mind.

My Review:
This is a great book about the future and how medicine will have changed. There are many heated discussions about ObamaCare, I can only imagine the discussions that this book would create. I had a lot to think about at the end of this book. I wonder if organ donors feel the same way about this book? I thought that there would be overpopulation, but the author took care of that via pandemics. I would give anything I could to my family. How many of us would give to strangers? By force? This is one of those stories that everyone either agrees with, or hates. I hope it never has to be answered, because I do not want to have to make the choice. 5/5

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