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3.62 AVERAGE
3.62 AVERAGE
Book: Starters
Genre: YA
Type: Audiobook
Book rating: ☆☆☆☆
Narration rating: ☆☆☆☆
Review
Sleep on a floor in a derelict house?
Struggle to feed yourself every day?
Are you underweight due to the lack of food you are eating?
Do you hate being unclean and smelly?
Do you want to be beautiful?
Then all YOU need to do is pop down to PRIME DESTINATIONS and we can solve all of your problems.
Small print …….Prime Destinations will insert a microchip into your brain and hook you up to another person so they can be you, the other person is an “Ender” (an old rich person who age is on average 100 yrs old). Here the Ender will leave their body wired up and enter your body, becoming you for a week/month/year……however long you signed up to rent your body out for. You will of course be paid well for this “donating” and we will also make you beautiful again. Your new body user will sign a contract to make sure that they use your body in the best possible way without damaging it at all
Come on down to PRIME DESTINATIONS to make your dreams of being rich a reality.
Callie is aware of Prime Destinations (the body bank for short!) Her and her brother Tyler are starving, and he is really ill, she finds that she has no choice but to donate her body for a time to get money to pay for her little brothers treatment, and to get enough money for them to maybe buy a home for them both…………This was a bad mistake, she knew it as soon as she leaves Prime Destinations, she knows it as soon as she starts to black out, she definitely knows it when she wakes up with a gun in her hand.!
Good book with a story that kept me engaged all the way through, a couple of good twists too that I didn’t see coming, I will definitely look out for the 2nd book in the series to find out what happens.
Genre: YA
Type: Audiobook
Book rating: ☆☆☆☆
Narration rating: ☆☆☆☆
Review
Sleep on a floor in a derelict house?
Struggle to feed yourself every day?
Are you underweight due to the lack of food you are eating?
Do you hate being unclean and smelly?
Do you want to be beautiful?
Then all YOU need to do is pop down to PRIME DESTINATIONS and we can solve all of your problems.
Small print …….Prime Destinations will insert a microchip into your brain and hook you up to another person so they can be you, the other person is an “Ender” (an old rich person who age is on average 100 yrs old). Here the Ender will leave their body wired up and enter your body, becoming you for a week/month/year……however long you signed up to rent your body out for. You will of course be paid well for this “donating” and we will also make you beautiful again. Your new body user will sign a contract to make sure that they use your body in the best possible way without damaging it at all
Come on down to PRIME DESTINATIONS to make your dreams of being rich a reality.
Callie is aware of Prime Destinations (the body bank for short!) Her and her brother Tyler are starving, and he is really ill, she finds that she has no choice but to donate her body for a time to get money to pay for her little brothers treatment, and to get enough money for them to maybe buy a home for them both…………This was a bad mistake, she knew it as soon as she leaves Prime Destinations, she knows it as soon as she starts to black out, she definitely knows it when she wakes up with a gun in her hand.!
Good book with a story that kept me engaged all the way through, a couple of good twists too that I didn’t see coming, I will definitely look out for the 2nd book in the series to find out what happens.
Me gustó y, aunque me lo venia venir un poquitito, el final me sorprendió.
Espero leer la segunda parte pronto
Espero leer la segunda parte pronto
Callie Woodland has one very important person that relies on her 100%. her younger brother is sick and she is the only person that he has. Her parents died in the spoor war along with all the other people between the ages of 20 and 60.
In this ageist future, she is forced to sell her body to the enders. Not in the traditional since, they actually take over her conscience through a chip that is placed in her brain and live life as a starter. However there is a malfunction in her chip, it seems that her renter has altered her chip and now she gets to live her life as herself as an ender...yeah. Now she is rich, and dating a boy that she would never be able to get in real life.
Yet there is something going on with Prime Destinations and her renter. Prime Destinations is out for something that will change the lives of starters and enders forever, and her renter has a plan to stop them but she's not sure what it is. As she loses consciousness for periods of time and wakes up in dangerous situations, she better figure it out soon.
In this ageist future, she is forced to sell her body to the enders. Not in the traditional since, they actually take over her conscience through a chip that is placed in her brain and live life as a starter. However there is a malfunction in her chip, it seems that her renter has altered her chip and now she gets to live her life as herself as an ender...yeah. Now she is rich, and dating a boy that she would never be able to get in real life.
Yet there is something going on with Prime Destinations and her renter. Prime Destinations is out for something that will change the lives of starters and enders forever, and her renter has a plan to stop them but she's not sure what it is. As she loses consciousness for periods of time and wakes up in dangerous situations, she better figure it out soon.
I thought that the concept of the book was a really great and original idea. However, the world-building aspect of the story left a little to be desired for me. I thought that the story was really rushed in some aspects and certain plot points seemed to come out of nowhere. Overall I did enjoy reading this book and I think others would enjoy it as well.
A big fat five stars to this one, I absolutely loved every single minute of reading it. Amazing.
A very good book! The review on the cover states, "Fans of The Hunger Games will love it."-Kami Garcia. That is very true. If you like The Hunger Games, the Divergent Series, or the Host by Stephanie Meyer, you'll love this. I can't wait to read the next one!
Starters se ha convertido en una de mis mejores lecturas del 2012 y que sin duda os recomiendo a todos. Una novela que tiene muchos ingredientes para engancharte: una historia original y fresca, un ritmo que te absorbe, unos personajes a los que les coges cariño y una trama con muchos giros inesperados. Sin duda Lissa Price nos trae un excelente libro que te atrapará desde sus primeras páginas. Aquí puedes leer mi reseña completa: http://viviendo-entre-paginas.blogspot.com.es/2012/10/starters-starters-and-enders-1-lissa.html
3.5/5
My Thoughts: It could have been better, but it was good enough...
Starters is a dystopian debut novel that was really highly anticipated for this year. The concept of teens renting their bodies to the elderly is some food for thought... Wouldn't you say so? There were some aspects of the book that wasn't clear and took some time to understand or that I was confused about the entire way through. But other than that, it was a good read and I'm looking forward to the sequel Enders.
The whole time I was reading Starters, I was completely lost on how and why everything came to be. How did the war start? Why didn't they save at least SOME of the middle aged people? How did they even come up with the idea, let alone technology for the renting? So many questions were left unanswered and that disappointed me. I was looking forward to this book and had pretty good expectations of it, but they didn't meet. There was a pretty prominent Cinderella theme, what with Callie losing her shoe and Blake picking it up, going from being incredibly poor and homeless to a life of luxury. I didn't think much of it to be honest. I felt like it wasn't an important part of the book, considering all the other stuff that was happening. Going back to Blake, a LOT of stuff happens with him. If you've read this book, you'll understand. But if not, I won't spoil it for you. The thing that bugged me about their relationship was that it happened so quickly. There was no real growing into it... It just happened. There is a reason as to why that kind of makes sense, but in the end that question is still on my mind.
But there were some great parts to the book as well. First of all, the whole concept of the elderly renting out teen bodies is CREEPY. But so creative and imaginative(EXC) I can't even fathom how Lissa Price came up with this idea. She is a very talented author with a vivid imagination and I am looking forward to reading more from her. There was one point where I almost began crying, in the very beginning when all Callie wanted was to help save her little brother, Tyler. Being a big sister to three brothers has made me kind of protective and also very sensitive to sibling books like this. Her love for Tyler was so pure and so relatable, in my case. No, I haven't been orphaned with only me to take care of my dying brother, but I could see how Callie thought that renting her body was the best thing she could do to make the bit of extra money that they needed. I also loved the ending. It was one of those 'OMG it's a happy ending! Oh wait... Nope, more drama,' moments. Personally I feel as if the last 60 pages or so were the best out of the whole book. It was intense and twisted and completely exhilarating! The cliff-hanger was a huge shock and I am truly counting the days until December 2th. Theories of who the old man is are reeling in my mind and I just want to know who he is!
My Thoughts: It could have been better, but it was good enough...
Starters is a dystopian debut novel that was really highly anticipated for this year. The concept of teens renting their bodies to the elderly is some food for thought... Wouldn't you say so? There were some aspects of the book that wasn't clear and took some time to understand or that I was confused about the entire way through. But other than that, it was a good read and I'm looking forward to the sequel Enders.
The whole time I was reading Starters, I was completely lost on how and why everything came to be. How did the war start? Why didn't they save at least SOME of the middle aged people? How did they even come up with the idea, let alone technology for the renting? So many questions were left unanswered and that disappointed me. I was looking forward to this book and had pretty good expectations of it, but they didn't meet. There was a pretty prominent Cinderella theme, what with Callie losing her shoe and Blake picking it up, going from being incredibly poor and homeless to a life of luxury. I didn't think much of it to be honest. I felt like it wasn't an important part of the book, considering all the other stuff that was happening. Going back to Blake, a LOT of stuff happens with him. If you've read this book, you'll understand. But if not, I won't spoil it for you. The thing that bugged me about their relationship was that it happened so quickly. There was no real growing into it... It just happened. There is a reason as to why that kind of makes sense, but in the end that question is still on my mind.
But there were some great parts to the book as well. First of all, the whole concept of the elderly renting out teen bodies is CREEPY. But so creative and imaginative(EXC) I can't even fathom how Lissa Price came up with this idea. She is a very talented author with a vivid imagination and I am looking forward to reading more from her. There was one point where I almost began crying, in the very beginning when all Callie wanted was to help save her little brother, Tyler. Being a big sister to three brothers has made me kind of protective and also very sensitive to sibling books like this. Her love for Tyler was so pure and so relatable, in my case. No, I haven't been orphaned with only me to take care of my dying brother, but I could see how Callie thought that renting her body was the best thing she could do to make the bit of extra money that they needed. I also loved the ending. It was one of those 'OMG it's a happy ending! Oh wait... Nope, more drama,' moments. Personally I feel as if the last 60 pages or so were the best out of the whole book. It was intense and twisted and completely exhilarating! The cliff-hanger was a huge shock and I am truly counting the days until December 2th. Theories of who the old man is are reeling in my mind and I just want to know who he is!