This is a great start to a hopefully great trilogy!I will admit though that I rolled my eyes a couple of times during this read but I had to come to terms that this girl had everything snatched away from her in a matter of hours, of course she isn’t going to be strong right out of the gate, she has ...
Birthmarked‘s Gaia Stone is a sixteen-year-old midwife in Western Sector 3, outside the south wall of the Enclave. Her world is hardscrabble and poor, one where the first three babies each midwife delivers is brought to the Enclave, to live on the other side of the wall in a life of luxury and privi...
Birthmarked is one of my favourite YA books, it has it all: great world-building, well-developed characters who make realistic choices, a real sense of terror considering what was at stake and, oh wonder of wonders!, no love triangle, no insta-love, no Mary-Sue for a heroine. There was very little...
Birthmarked was an impulse buy, despite the fact I barely had money for groceries.But I'm pleased (and relieved) that I loved it, with all its bittersweet beauty and tragedy that really struck chords and meant something, instead of what's now the fashion: tragedy to be tragic.I adored the characters...
I think Prized was even better than Birthmarked. I feel like a lot more seemed to happen and Gaia grew up a bit. It's an extremely enjoyable story that I can't seem to get enough of. Caragh M. O'Brien has mad a new fan out of me!It pretty much started off where Birthmarked left off, with Gaia in the...
2.5 stars. I'm very torn about this book. I really liked the premise. 16-year old midwife Gaia has a scarred face as a result of burn and lives outside of the walls of the Enclave with her parents. The enclave is a city made up of people who are richer, more educated and overall better off. Her...
I was really impressed by Prized, the second book in the Birthmarked series. I'd read some negative reviews and was a little wary about it, considering how much I loved the first one. Prized didn't disappoint. I was impressed by the character development that Gaia experienced. In the first book ...
Don't get me wrong, I love YA. But there are times when the genre wears on me a bit. I want a little bit less guilt and a little bit more aSelf-awareness. More plot development. In Birthmarked I got everything I could have asked for. This dystopian society has interesting footings in real life that ...
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