Melanie is the title character, The Girl With All the Gifts. And her gifts are many, she is a dear, insightful, intelligent child, whose curiousity and empathy make her a most engaging heroine. So it’s easy to feel sorry for her when 2 men come into her cell and strap her at her feet, wrists, and neck into a wheelchair that she doesn’t really need for the short trip down the corridor and into her classroom. It’s even easier to feel sorry for her when her weekend is described: she’s locked in her cell alone all Saturday long, and is treated to a bowl of insects and a burning chemical shower on Sundays.
Soon, the reason for these weird protocols is revealed, and shortly thereafter, all hell breaks loose. This book is a wild, unstoppable ride, and every time real life conspires to make you put it down, you’ll walk around in a daze, hungry for more.
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Who owns medical implants – the patient, the health service, the company that made them? Should the patient have access to details of the hardware and software? If an artificial organ is keeping you alive, does the company get to turn it off if you don’t keep paying the ever rising bills? What happens when companies close? When you move from mechanical implants to genetic treatment, who owns the DNA inserted into your cells? Will you become a product wholly owned by Big Pharma?
