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3.62 AVERAGE
3.62 AVERAGE
adventurous
mysterious
medium-paced
Very interesting and refreshing story. Looking forward to the conclusion.
Very entertaining. I've read quite a few dystopia novels lately,though, and the whole idea is getting old. This one has a new take in that young bodies are getting rented out to older people so they can experience different physical experiences. I think there is an audience for this book. I'll be recommending it to teens.
This was an interesting concept, and once I really got into the story (maybe about 20% of the way in?), I was pretty hooked. I'm planning on reading the sequel; this book has a pretty decent ending that could satisfy, but at the same time the Big Bad got away
The heroines in this are all pretty great, and I think Price did a great job of building tension and making the stakes very high.
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and is now in Callie's head. Also, I totally think he's secretly her dad or something. Definitely someone she knows. Although, now that I'm thinking about it, that would give the relationship between her and Blake some major squick. Ew. I may need to revise this theory.The heroines in this are all pretty great, and I think Price did a great job of building tension and making the stakes very high.
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If Scott Westerfeld's Uglies, James Dashner's The Maze Runner, and Veronica Roth's Divergent had a book baby, it would be Starters. Telling the story of Callie, a girl living in the future where a virus killed every that had not been vaccinated, Callie has no parents and no grandparents to help her, so she is responsible for taking care of her little brother...living on the run, trying to survive.
To earn money and care for her brother, Callie does what she said she would never do. She allows Prime Destinations, a creepy corporation run by the Old Man, to rent her body to an elderly person. It pays well and she's assured nothing can go wrong. Well, we all know how that ends, right?
This plot MOVES. I turned pages like crazy, wanting to know what happened to Callie and her family. The characters are all well developed and though not necessarily unique in its dystopian genre, the drama is there and the story will leave you wanting more. Apparently, the 2nd and last book in the 2-book series comes out in December. Yay!
If Scott Westerfeld's Uglies, James Dashner's The Maze Runner, and Veronica Roth's Divergent had a book baby, it would be Starters. Telling the story of Callie, a girl living in the future where a virus killed every that had not been vaccinated, Callie has no parents and no grandparents to help her, so she is responsible for taking care of her little brother...living on the run, trying to survive.
To earn money and care for her brother, Callie does what she said she would never do. She allows Prime Destinations, a creepy corporation run by the Old Man, to rent her body to an elderly person. It pays well and she's assured nothing can go wrong. Well, we all know how that ends, right?
This plot MOVES. I turned pages like crazy, wanting to know what happened to Callie and her family. The characters are all well developed and though not necessarily unique in its dystopian genre, the drama is there and the story will leave you wanting more. Apparently, the 2nd and last book in the 2-book series comes out in December. Yay!
It is a very joyful read for young adult fantasy/sci-fi. The story runs very smooth and characters are very well established. The most important, I love the narrator!!! I picked this book mainly because of her.
I avoided this series long enough until I have nothing to read, so when a friend offered her unopened copy of this book I threw my doubts and grab it from her shelf. My doubts basically rooted from the cover. I’m such a book cover judger and sometimes I buy books not because of the reviews or recommendations from friends but because the cover attracts me. The cover of both Starters and Enders, unfortunately, really creep the hell out of me. The blank stare of the girl on the cover gave me chills (but I’m over it already), as if she was drugged unwillingly and she can’t do anything about it. But the story really got me flipping through the pages, finding out that it is a dystopian YA novel helps a lot. Well, almost a dystopian novel but definitely a YA and the fact that I’m a sucker for dystopian YA droves me to read it nonstop for two days until I realized there’s no more page to turn. So, I guess that is a good sign. Although, a part of it disturbs me, I know dystopian novels, of course, discusses hostile environment, it can’t erase the fact how twisted any form of slavery is. And it will always be one of the causes I will whole-heartedly help to eliminate in real life but it’s just a fictional story and the cruelty in the book is just in the book, so for now I have to live with it for a while.
One more, good point of this book is the protagonist. Callie bleeds with girl power and I know a lot of bookworms love it. (e.g. THG and Divergent) don’t consider me being a sexist, that’s just how book reading roll these days. I might give Enders a five star if it will surprise me and prove me wrong about the identity of the Old Man. Because I kinda have a wild guess about who the Old Man is. And if I’m right the whole story would be a lot harder to digest. It should be cleared out. What’s driving me nuts though, is how the bacterial spores are talking to each other? It totally freaks me out. So, for now I’ll give Starters 3 stars.
One more, good point of this book is the protagonist. Callie bleeds with girl power and I know a lot of bookworms love it. (e.g. THG and Divergent) don’t consider me being a sexist, that’s just how book reading roll these days. I might give Enders a five star if it will surprise me and prove me wrong about the identity of the Old Man. Because I kinda have a wild guess about who the Old Man is. And if I’m right the whole story would be a lot harder to digest. It should be cleared out. What’s driving me nuts though, is how the bacterial spores are talking to each other? It totally freaks me out. So, for now I’ll give Starters 3 stars.
Well written and highly readable. An enjoyable novel.