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Lia Kahn was perfect. She had a perfect life, perfect friends, and a perfect boyfriend. She was popular and beautiful and everyone wanted to be with her and know her -- until the accident changed everything.

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At first, it seemed a rip off of other sim...more...]]> 3 0 false false Sun Mar 01 00:00:00 -0800 2009 Sun Mar 29 18:19:52 -0700 2009 Sun Mar 29 18:30:32 -0700 2009 The Looking Glass Wars because here's another author's attempt at an awesome concept with mixed--but better--results.

The futuristic world in which our heroine Lia lives is full of technobabble and teenaged angst, but unlike in oth...more...]]> 5 0 true false Thu Jan 15 11:55:48 -0800 2009 Thu Jan 15 11:56:18 -0800 2009 more...]]> 3 0 false false Mon Dec 01 00:00:00 -0800 2008 Tue Dec 30 13:08:08 -0800 2008 Tue Dec 30 13:18:20 -0800 2008 Alongside recently published novels like Unwind and the Adoration of Jenna Fox, Skinned is about a teen who has lost control of her own body. After a horrific freak car accident, Lia's body is un-salvageable. Her parents give the order to have her brain downloaded into a com...more...]]> 4 0 false false Wed Dec 10 00:00:00 -0800 2008 Thu Dec 11 07:59:09 -0800 2008 Thu Dec 11 08:06:44 -0800 2008 more...]]> 3 0 false false Tue Sep 15 00:00:00 -0700 2009 Mon Sep 14 14:15:11 -0700 2009 Tue Sep 15 03:12:36 -0700 2009 more...]]> 4 0 false false Wed Aug 19 00:00:00 -0700 2009 Fri Aug 21 08:49:26 -0700 2009 Fri Aug 21 08:50:31 -0700 2009 1 Lia's father has high credit. She does not live in a city. She is rich and popular. Whatever Lia does or likes is the nex...more...]]> 2 0 false false Wed Aug 13 00:00:00 -0700 2008 Wed Aug 26 21:02:39 -0700 2009 Fri Aug 28 19:21:57 -0700 2009 more...]]> 4 2 false false Wed May 20 00:00:00 -0700 2009 Mon May 18 18:49:23 -0700 2009 Wed May 20 06:11:46 -0700 2009
I loved this. Set in the future, where the entire world is living on technology we can't even dream about yet, Lia Kahn is in an accident that almost kills her. She is "downloaded" onto an artificial body, and everyone who knew and ...more...]]> 2 0 false false Fri Nov 06 00:00:00 -0800 2009 Sat Oct 31 00:36:44 -0700 2009 Fri Nov 06 02:19:27 -0800 2009
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It is the future. Cities have died. There are cars, but machines drive them. People collect credits to purchase the items they need. Books are a thing of the past. Everyone is plugged into an alternate reality most of their lives. Children and teens go to school, ...more...]]> 2 2 false false Mon Dec 01 00:00:00 -0800 2008 Sun Jan 18 12:02:32 -0800 2009 Sat Jan 31 11:32:51 -0800 2009
1) lia is a thoroughly irritating character. everything she does is so self centered and she can't understand anything. everytime someone tells her something that makes sense or she basically already knew, she denies it. and its not just...more...]]> 4 0 false false Mon Jun 01 00:00:00 -0700 2009 Thu Jun 18 19:53:05 -0700 2009 Thu Jun 18 19:53:20 -0700 2009 http://ibeeeg.blogspot.com/2009/06/skinn...

What did I think of Skinned?

I thought...bizarre, odd, weird, different, interesting, absorbing...the story has stayed with me...I am thinking of the possibilities.

It took me a bit to get into the story bu...more...]]> 4 0 false true Tue Apr 21 00:00:00 -0700 2009 Wed Apr 08 20:43:35 -0700 2009 Wed Apr 22 19:52:30 -0700 2009 Skinned, the first part of a new trilogy.

The car crash was deadly. But Lia Kahn's parents downloaded her brain and gave it a new body, and though she mostly looks quite human, others view her as a
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