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Reviewed by Asher Syed for Readers' Favorite
In Social Score by Brent Golembiewski, plumber Kam Addison lives under the Collective, a government that monitors citizens through mandatory social scores and criminalizes Christian worship. Kam secretly attends an underground church with his wife, Marsha, while protecting their daughter, Elsa, from the system that governs every part of public life. After Kam intervenes when an enforcer attacks a child, government scrutiny focuses on his family. Senator Victoria Catalina uses the investigation to advance Operation Dandelion, a campaign designed to expose the Christian resistance. When Kam is pulled into the underground escape network, he is given a false identity and sent to a refuge beyond the Collective’s reach. His route soon becomes part of Catalina’s search for the resistance itself, placing every step of his escape in danger.
Brent Golembiewski’s Social Score is a unique take on systems akin to China's infamous Social Credit System, amplifying it aggressively into an actual score that determines everything. The future the author paints is fascinating, and it's fun when he incorporates throwbacks like an analog compass with its red arrow, baffling people raised on electronics. The world-building is excellent, and social rank becomes physical power, shown after the Green City riots when civilian weapons disappear, and the Collective’s enforcer brigade remains armed. Kam Addison is fully fleshed out, and his best trait is his compassion. He uses a circuit card as leverage to bring an injured child into a mountain base. The author also fleshes out ancillary characters, my favorite being underground guide Billy Coats, who is willing to face wolves if it means saving lives. Readers looking for Christian dystopian fiction, look no further. Recommended.
