Author: Julia KarrSeries: XVI #1
Pages: 325Format: Paperback
Release Date: January 6th, 2011
Rating: 4/5
Summery:
Every girl gets one.
An XVI tattoo on the wrist--sixteen.
Some girls can't wait to be sixteen, to be legal. Nina is not one of them. Even though she has no choice in the matter, she knows that so long as her life continues as normal, everything will be okay.
Then, with one brutal strike, Nina's normal is shattered; and she discovers that nothing that she believed about her life is true. But there's one boy who can help--and he just may hold the key to her past.
But with the line between attraction and danger as thin as a whisper, one thing is for sure...
For Nina, turning sixteen promises to be anything but sweet.
Review:
Wow. This book is really, really complex. The plot is so good. Zarr did such a good job writing this book to make it look like Nina had no way to make all the problems right, but I was really impressed with how she did it.
When I started reading it I thought, Wow, I'm not going to like this book very much, because Zarr came up with all these new abbreviations for everything, like PAVs and feLS, I had no idea what they were. But as the story progressed and grew I finally figured them out and started to really enjoy it. The plot is simply amazing. There were so many elements and things going on, I don't know how Zarr kept track of it all.
When Zarr first introduced Sal I didn't really like him at all, but towards the end he started to show his sensative, caring side and he grew on me.
I love that Nina's mom was a strong, defiant woman that saw through the facade the goverment had put up.
I hate, hate, hate, hate, hate Ed. That guy is a slime-ball.
I felt so bad for Sandy at the end (not telling what happens). Although she was completely swept up in being a sex-teen, I kind of liked her and really hoped Nina would make her come to her senses.
All in all, a really good dystopian novel, and I can't wait to read the second one.
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