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Starters
by Lissa Price
My local bookstore has a bargain section for young adult books, and in this section all of the books are either five or six dollars, and it is one of my favorite places to shop because I feel as if I can always find gems hidden among them. One of the books that was there for a VERY long time was Starters by Lissa Price. The cover caught my eye because of how shiny and strange it looked, but when I read the synopsis, it didn't quite seem like something I would be interested in, so I didn't buy it.
This continued on for over a month. Every time I went into the store I would see Starters sitting on the bargain shelf and every week I would pick it up, read the synopsis again, and eventually decide to put it back down. Finally, one week, I looked at it and decided that if it was catching my attention every time I went into the store, maybe there was a reason for it, so I bought it.
The story follows a girl named Callie. Her parents are both dead due to the Spore War, and her little brother is very sick. She needs money to get them an actual house, and to buy him the medicine that he needs, otherwise there is a large chance that he won't survive. In order to get the money, she travels to Prime Destinations, a place in Beverly Hills which allows Enders, or the elderly people of the community, to rent out the bodies of teenagers so that they can feel young again. Callie signs a contract with Prime Destinations, allowing her body to be rented out three times in return for a very large sum of money.
The first two renters go very well, but the third renter requires her body for an entire month, and when, a week in, the chip in her brain which allows the connection between the Ender and her body to occur malfunctions, she has to make a choice about what to do, and exactly how far she will let the Ender use her body for the deeds that she wishes to accomplish.
I was very surprised by how much I did end up enjoying this book. Once I started reading it during the Read-a-Thons, I just couldn't stop. I had to know what was going to happen, and where the story was going to go. The story was so unique and it took some turns which I didn't expect, even after reading the synopsis a grand total of six times. The story was nothing like what I expected it to be, and that made it so much more enjoyable. The only thing which kept this book from being a total of five stars for me was the main character Callie. I found her to be very whiny throughout the course of the book, and at times she came of as pathetically weak. As a girl who has been living on the street for a year looking after her little brother, she sounded like she should be so tough, so strong. And while she was during a lot of the experiences that she went through, it wasn't the case for the whole book. In fact, most of her strength seemed to come from the Ender who has rented her.
Over all I liked this book a lot, and I look forward to reading the sequel Enders sometime in the future
This continued on for over a month. Every time I went into the store I would see Starters sitting on the bargain shelf and every week I would pick it up, read the synopsis again, and eventually decide to put it back down. Finally, one week, I looked at it and decided that if it was catching my attention every time I went into the store, maybe there was a reason for it, so I bought it.
The story follows a girl named Callie. Her parents are both dead due to the Spore War, and her little brother is very sick. She needs money to get them an actual house, and to buy him the medicine that he needs, otherwise there is a large chance that he won't survive. In order to get the money, she travels to Prime Destinations, a place in Beverly Hills which allows Enders, or the elderly people of the community, to rent out the bodies of teenagers so that they can feel young again. Callie signs a contract with Prime Destinations, allowing her body to be rented out three times in return for a very large sum of money.
The first two renters go very well, but the third renter requires her body for an entire month, and when, a week in, the chip in her brain which allows the connection between the Ender and her body to occur malfunctions, she has to make a choice about what to do, and exactly how far she will let the Ender use her body for the deeds that she wishes to accomplish.
I was very surprised by how much I did end up enjoying this book. Once I started reading it during the Read-a-Thons, I just couldn't stop. I had to know what was going to happen, and where the story was going to go. The story was so unique and it took some turns which I didn't expect, even after reading the synopsis a grand total of six times. The story was nothing like what I expected it to be, and that made it so much more enjoyable. The only thing which kept this book from being a total of five stars for me was the main character Callie. I found her to be very whiny throughout the course of the book, and at times she came of as pathetically weak. As a girl who has been living on the street for a year looking after her little brother, she sounded like she should be so tough, so strong. And while she was during a lot of the experiences that she went through, it wasn't the case for the whole book. In fact, most of her strength seemed to come from the Ender who has rented her.
Over all I liked this book a lot, and I look forward to reading the sequel Enders sometime in the future