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Birthmarked (Birthmarked Trilogy)
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IN THE ENCLAVE, YOUR SCARS SET YOU APART, аnd thе newly born wіll change thе future.
Sixteen-year-ancient Gaia Marble аnd hеr mother faithfully deliver thеіr quota οf three infants еνеrу month. Bυt whеn Gaiaâs mother іѕ brutally full away bу thе very public ѕhе serves, Gaia mυѕt inquiry whether thе Closed society deserves such loyalty. A stunning adventure brought tο life bу a memorable heroine, thіѕ dystopian debut wіll hаνе readers racing аll thе way tο thе dramatic еnd.
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Wonderful sci-fi distopian YA novel,
Gaia’s world is outside the wall. She is a midwife and those outside the wall are required to give up three of their babies to the closed society inside the wall everywhere they will live the privileged life every month. When Gaia’s parents go missing she abruptly questions her existence and the rules that her society has always followed. She breaks into the closed society and finds that things here aren’t as perfect as they’ve always seemed.
As the tale continues the moral tale of a perfect race and the perils of inbreeding and genetic manipulation (with an elementary genetics lesson wrapped in) becomes an engrossing one and Gaia has to make hard choices to save herself and do what she knows is aptly.
Gaia is a wonderfully strong teen heroine. She fights for what’s aptly and won’t let anyone or anything stop her. If you liked Katniss from The Longing Games and Tally from the Uglies series you’ll like Gaia.
The ending is complete yet leaves space for a sequel which I will be thrilled to buy.
Appropriateness: Here isn’t any subject manner that will annoy adults. No drinking, drugs, sex or visual violence. The romance is sweet and the herione is the type of girl that parents would like their daughters to be.
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An ARC of “Birthmarked” was gifted to me by my friend, so I feel kind of terrible for giving this book such a low rating, but at the same time I don’t want to sugar coat it either. The thing is, “Birthmarked” is not one of those horrid books that I despise for dreadful writing or atrocious font (“Evermore” and “Hush, Hush” come to mind). It is not terrible, but it is simply dull and unremarkable. To be trustworthy, only a marginally fascinating premise kept me skimming last 200 pages of the book instead of giving up on it completely.
Gaia Marble is a 16-year ancient midwife in training in a small village near a walled city called Closed society. At the beginning of the book Gaia assists in birthing a baby and an hour later “advances” it, meaning she takes the baby from its mother and gives it over to the Closed society guards to be raised inside the city walls. Even though the mother of the outcome is in tears, Gaia advances the baby lacking any hesitation, this is a part of her job and she knows it’s a aptly thing to do. When later that night Gaia reaches her home, she is told that her parents were arrested and are now imprisoned within the city. The girl doesn’t know why it happened, the only clue to their possible discretion is a hair ribbon covered in mysterious symbols that Gaia’a parents left behind. What follows is Gaia’s quest to find her parents and uncover the importance of the ribbon.
I reckon the first major mistake the publisher of “Birthmarked” makes is that it markets it as a cross between “The Handmaid’s Tale” and “The Longing Games” which happen to be two of my favorites. Entrust me, it not even close to either of these books. It lacks the depth and emotional impact of the first and non-stop action and hot teenage romance of the second.
Even more, both the font and the dystopian world are not sufficiently urban.
Gaia is a very flat heroine. Her main characteristics are: a huge burn scar on her face (the emotional implications are explored only superficially), her ability to get various public to help her by simply asking (even prison guards are always willing to answer her questions and demands, imagine that!) and naivete akin to that of a 10-year ancient. How this girl ends up getting a mature guy by the end of the tale is a mystery to me.
The world of Closed society misses the mark too. I recognized many aspects “borrowed” from “The Handmaid’s Tale” (the colored uniforms based on the professional occupation, the titles – Masister, genetic and ecological problems, etc.), but even that is not enough to make a convincing dystopian reality. For a regime that is supposedly totalitarian and oppressive, the Closed society comes off as rather nonthreatening and lax.
All this combined with the general slowness of the tale, uninteresting font, lack of convincing action, conflict, or romance, and absence of any kind of emotional impact that dystopias are known and lauded for, make “Birthmarked” a pretty mediocre read. I might be in minority in my assessment of this book, as here are many 5-star reviews of it, but I am reasonably positive that even though some fans of sci-fi/dystopian YA might take pleasure in this novel, it is certainly not the next huge thing.
P.S. Nearly forgot, the book has an ending, but it is extremely open for a sequel.
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