The Auction
A Dark Romance

A next-level dystopian thriller that is among the year's most exciting debut novels. What if your financial earning potential was determined solely by an auction — and your future went to the highest bidder? It’s 2050, and 22-year-old Sasha Cross is about to enter The Auction, where America’s Big 7 c......more

This is a dystopia that does not read like one. I want to begin the review by stating why I am rating it the way I am. I found the book sluggish to get through. By the time I finished, I really enjoyed the experience, but I think it could have been shorter. I would have rated it a whole star higher......more

The Auction accomplishes that trick of all great dystopian fiction, turning a fun-house mirror on our society to so that we can see ourselves clearly, but in a new, exaggerated way. Tom Galvin takes the concept of “the promising young person” and pushes it to an all-too-believable limit. The plot hu......more

Capitalism written with a fifty-point, capital "C" font, Tom Galvin's The Auction is a mind-boggling, eye-opening look at a future dystopian world where the ultra-rich use America's youth as stock market commodities, the "A" list; while simultaneously relegating the remainder to the lower castes, th......more

This was a fantastic read. Set in the near future, The Auction tells the story of a corporate America that has taken away many of our freedoms in exchange for the perception of a stabilized, orderly and meritocratic system. Of course, it's more complicated than that. The world Galvin creates is not......more