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Birthmarked by Caragh M. O'Brien
Summary from Goodreads: After climate change, on the north shore of Unlake Superior, a dystopian world is divided between those who live inside the wall, and those, like sixteen-year-old midwife Gaia Stone, who live outside. It’s Gaia’s job to “advance” a quota of infants from poverty into the walled Enclave, until the night one agonized mother objects, and Gaia’s parents are arrested. Badly scarred since childhood, Gaia is a strong, resourceful loner who begins to question her society. As Gaia’s efforts to save her parents take her within the wall, she herself is arrested and imprisoned. Gaia carries an encoded ribbon from her parents, and its secrets hold vital information about certain advanced children who were "birthmarked" by tattoos. The Protectorat, who safeguards the population within the wall, needs Gaia’s code and its genetic counterpart to offset the hemophilia that plagues the Enclave.
Sgt. Grey, a young, handsome guard of the Enclave, is used by the Protectorat to manipulate Gaia and gain her cooperation with decoding the ribbon. As Sgt. Grey faces his own complicated past and Gaia recognizes the moral ramifications of her actions, they take desperate steps to escape. Fraught with difficult moral choices and rich with intricate layers of codes, BIRTHMARKED explores a colorful, cruel, eerily familiar world where one girl can make all the difference, and a real hero makes her own moral code.
Dystopia, walled enclave, genetics. 'Rich with intricate layers of codes'? Almost too intriguing. Seriously, this one had me at 'Unlake Superior'.
If anyone knows the code to offset the feeling of just! can't! wait! please share it with me. This one's out March 2010, and I'm not good with waiting patiently.
9 comments:
The premise sounds really interesting. Not sure I'm that keen on the cover though. The font is really sci-fi but the picture looks like it should be on a historical book. I guess we'll have to wait and see.
Nice pick, this book looks really interesting. The cover isn't my favorite, but it's still cool. I hadn't heard much about this before, nice WOW(:
Ooh, I agree, it sounds really interesting. Thank you for the info!
I spotted this one recently too and had a little squee! There's no cure. Only the agony of waiting.
sounds exciting!
I saw the word 'dystopia' and decided I would be buying this book. Never heard of it before... great pick!
If only I knew. I'm not good at waiting patiently either. Great WoW pick, by the way!
Yes, I'm waiting for this one too!!! Thanks!
When I saw this title, I thought the author had a second dystopian novel coming out, but now I realize that the title has changed!!
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