Starters, by Lissa Price 336 pgs.
During the Spore Wars, genocide spores killed every
person between twenty and sixty years of age, thus reducing the population to
Starters and Enders, those who were once most vulnerable. Teen Callie, the main
character, and her younger brother Tyler have no living grandparents or any
other family older than sixty to claim them.
Callie and the Starters like her live as fugitives, squatting in a
ruined building, hiding out from the marshals. In order to make some money to
care for her sickly brother, Callie makes a difficult decision to sell herself
to company called Prime Destinations that rents the bodies of young people to
the elderly/Enders who then can take full control of the teen’s body to enjoy
doing things that a young, healthy person would be able to do.
The middle of the book fell a little flat and became
predictable. Happily some unexpected
plot twists resurrected the suspense of the story and brought it to an
interesting ending.
YA
Gateway Award Nominee 2014-2015
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