by Caragh M. O'Brien
** 3.5 Stars ** I quite enjoyed this book. More than I thought I would to be honest. I picked it up at the library because I liked the cover... and the blurb sounded ok, so I thought I'd give it a go.The story of Gaia and the dystopian world she lives in is good. The separation between the people li...
The reason that this future has a lower population is hinted at but not fully explained, still a world where you have a small population survival and where some of the survivors are more equal than others is interesting. In this world Gaia Stone lives, outside the walls of the Enclave, working as a...
I read this book in two days. I really enjoyed the book. I felt that Gaia's character was very strong through out the book. I like how O'Brien weaved the past and present together for us to get an understanding how things came to be. There were some parts that I didn't really like, especially the ci...
Review: In this dystopian world, the lucky live in luxury in the Enclave. Those who don't live outside, struggling to survive. Gaia Stone is one such girl. She's also in training to be a midwife. So the first one she delivers by herself, she delivers to the Enclave. Why? She doesn't know. All she kn...
I clearly watch too many sci-fi TV shows. Reading Birthmarked was like watching an amalgamation of specific episodes of those shows play out on paper. In black and white, not full and vivid HD colour because very little of it felt new and fresh, shocking and memorable. One scene and one scene only w...
This book and I got on a plane together, and if it hadn’t been for the fact that we were both trapped in a small space with little else to do, we might have parted ways early on. I didn’t step smoothly into the first few chapters of Birthmarked. My reading experience sort of tripped, stumbled, almos...
2.5 stars. A little disappointed with 'Birthmarked'. The cover was pretty and the back blurb sounded really interesting, but the text itself didn't live up to expectations. The plot had a lot of potential. A split society: the upper class inside the city walls, the Enclave; and the lower class outsi...
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