Callie, the protagonist, is likeable and the world she lives is something you wouldn’t want to live in.Īlthough labeled as a dystopian novel, Starters lean more towards science fiction. Things just keep on happening one after the other. Starters is the first book in Lissa Price‘s two-part installment, and for a debut novel it is a good one. Fearing that Prime may not pay her if they learn about the glitch in her chip, she abides but soon she realizes that her renter has plans of her own and that everything and everyone else around her isn’t what they seem to be. Then she starts hearing a voice inside her head, the voice of the Ender renting her body, warning her not to go back to the body bank. A week into her supposedly month-long rental, Callie wakes up inside a bar which she knows is entirely wrong. Her first two rentals went well but just when she thought things are going to go smoothly her third and final one goes awry. She’s scrubbed and remade, and fitted with a neurochip in her head to enable the renter to control her body. If you’re a moneyed Ender, you go to Prime Destinations to relive being young but if you’re an unclaimed Starter, you go there to temporarily sign off your body for someone else to use and claim in exchange for money.ĭesperate, Callie goes to Prime Destinations and becomes one of their body donors. Callie must make hard decisions which eventually led her to Prime Destinations also known as the body bank. But times become more dire as Tyler’s illness progress for worse.

Orphaned, Callie must fend and provide for herself and her sickly brother Tyler, and she does just that with some help from former neighbor and fellow orphan Michael. The Spore Wars killed everyone between the ages of twenty and sixty leaving the very young, the Starters and the very old, the Enders. Callie Woodland‘s futuristic Los Angeles is filled with terrible chaos.

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