“The Wayland Inn was behind the slums, on the west end of Knoxville.”

From Kristen Simmons’ Article 5: Breaking Point.

Ember and Chase just want to hide away until the Federal Bureau of Reformation (FBR) moves on to other targets and gives them a chance to escape, but this is made impossible by their fast-growing hero status among the country’s rebel groups.  With no where else to turn Ember and Chase join an uneasy alliance with the Resistance movement, because they offer both relative safety and a chance to break free of the tyrannical government.  While the government wants to capture her and the rebels want her to rise up and lead, all Ember really wants is a chance to grieve what life has done to her and sort out her feelings for Chase.  Ember is desperate to help her friend Sarah and save her from a terrible fate at the hands of the FBR, and her connection to the resistance movement helps her to do that, but the rescue also places her face-to-face with the old friend she blames for her mother’s death.  However, when Ember is moved to the top of the FBR’s most wanted list, even the relative safety of her life is shattered and she must decide how to move forward… a choice that will change not only her life, but the lives of everyone around her.

The driving force of this book and series is the “too much of a good thing” ideology of boundaries on love and physical attraction, but it does seem so extreme that it’s unbelievable to a point.  Simmons does well to further develop a world that is unique, but similar enough to the reader’s world to be chilling.  Breaking Point is a page-turning read that easily draws readers into the story, making them desperate to begin the next book to see what happens to the characters.