THEY OUTLAWED EMOTIONS

She Feels Anyway

A dystopian sci-fi thriller by Richard French

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The Premise

In a world where human emotions have been criminalized, one woman’s ability to feel could ignite a revolution—or destroy her.

Emma Thorne is the Council’s top Emotion Collector—tasked with extracting illegal feelings from citizens to maintain social order. But when she begins absorbing the very emotions she was trained to remove, she becomes the thing she was built to hunt.

Now hunted by the system she once served, Emma must choose: suppress what she feels and survive, or embrace it and risk everything to awaken a world that’s forgotten what it means to be human.

What Readers Are Saying

Rated 5 out of 5

“The concept—harvesting human emotion to preserve societal harmony—is chilling, and Emma’s awakening is both heartbreaking and hopeful. The world-building is immersive, the ethical questions are compelling…”

— Bella A.

Rated 5 out of 5

“The idea of collecting, storing, or eliminating human emotions is a powerful metaphor for social control and identity… The dystopian world is well-constructed. The emotionless society, the suppression technology, and the environmental consequences create a unique scenario with symbolic depth.”

— Gabriela T.

Rated 5 out of 5

“This book is about emotions, people, and the planet as we live on it. Has me questioning about the process of emotions and people and togetherness. Whether having no emotions is an evil thing or just evolution.”

— diablogr15

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