SKINNED by Robin Wasserman September 12, 2008
Posted by karinlibrarian in young adult.Tags: family, friendship, Science Fiction, trilogy, young adult
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Lia shouldn’t have been in the car in the first place. By doing a favor for her sister, she has changed her life forever. A one in a million chance. The navigation system in her car malfunctioned and she crashed head on with another car. Her body broken – her skin burning, Lia waited for help. Unfortunately, her body didn’t survive the trauma of the accident. However, her brain remained in tact.
Lia wakes up several weeks later to find that she is alive. She has been downloaded into a new body. A body that isn’t flesh and blood, but circuits and wires covered by synthetic “skin.” Lia doesn’t want to be a skinner, a mech-head, a freak. She’d rather be dead. Instead she has to go through the indignity of learning the most basic of activities all over again.
Eventually, Lia returns to school only to find that the people she depended on most aren’t as receptive to her as she’d hoped. Companionship comes from an unexpected person. Lia doesn’t want to admit she isn’t the same as she was before the accident. She refuses to believe she is only doing what the computer is programmed to do.
Lia meets a group of radical mech-heads that force her to confront her situation. Is it dangerous for her to live amongst people acting as if she is exactly like everyone else? Is she causing the people she cares about the most more harm than good?
SKINNED by Robin Wasserman is a spell-binding, futuristic story filled with issues of medical ethics, family dynamics, and loss. If you enjoyed the Uglies trilogy by Scott Westerfeld, you’ll enjoy SKINNED. The story is powerful and keeps you hooked until the end. I was excited to see that SKINNED is the first book in a planned trilogy. I desperately want to see what happens next in Lia’s complicated existence. Robin Wasserman’s website includes cool downloads based on the book like desktop wallpaper, screen savers, and avatars. Go check it out.
A really awesome book! Highly recommended!
I love this book! I is absolutely amazing!
After I picked it up, I couldn’t put it down. Will there be future books in this series?
yes there will be more books. the next is crashed.
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[...] you enjoy THE ADORATION OF JENNA FOX you might want to read SKINNED by Robin Wasserman. They are similar in many ways, but where it looks like SKINNED is the first [...]
This book is absouley one of my favorite books I have read it newmourse times and i still enjoy ti vbery much. Every one i have suggested it to loves also. The writting is just wonderful.
that looks and sounds really good
I LOVED this book!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!! It’s so good. I highly recomend it!
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This was a great book!!!
is it like she’s bionic or something .. ?
i really like to buy it .. but i think they don’t sell in in malaysia ..
Buy the book in amazon :O? doesnt that work?
[...] you want to read a great review, have a look at Karin’s blog here. Karin says: If you enjoyed the Uglies trilogy by Scott Westerfeld, you’ll enjoy SKINNED. The [...]
i read the entire uglies series and i saw the recomendation for skinned in the back of the book and i definently liked skinned better. no offense to scott, but it was so amazin, i mean,it kind of captured what i always thought the future was like.And i LOVE Jude.his i dont care attitude….being kind of like a cult leader….how him and Lai have the most amazing love/hate relationship. SUCH AN AMAZIN BOOK! CANt WAIT TO READ THE NEXT ONE!
This book was awesome. It was a thrify shop treasure for me. It does remind me a bit of the House of night Novels, although there aren’t any “Vampyres”, there is the whole situation with being seperated from her old life and new, the “us” and “them” between what she was and what she became. I can’t wait for the second segment.
This book sounds good, I hope that when I read it, that I like it.
[...] is a wonderful follow-up to SKINNED. The world Robin Wasserman creates is creative and fascinating and even though the main [...]
Is this a first person perspective book?