Birthmarked

by Caragh M. O'Brien
320 pages

All I can say is WOW. I think Birthmarked is my favorite YA book since The Hunger Games. This one will have you on the edge of your seat not able to read fast enough.

Summary from GoodReads:
After climate change, on the north shore of Unlake Superior, a dystopian world is divided between those who live inside the wall, and those, like sixteen-year-old midwife Gaia Stone, who live outside. It’s Gaia’s job to “advance” a quota of infants from poverty into the walled Enclave, until the night one agonized mother objects, and Gaia’s parents are arrested.

Badly scarred since childhood, Gaia is a strong, resourceful loner who begins to question her society. As Gaia’s efforts to save her parents take her within the wall, she herself is arrested and imprisoned.

Fraught with difficult moral choices and rich with intricate layers of codes, BIRTHMARKED explores a colorful, cruel, eerily familiar world where one girl can make all the difference, and a real hero makes her own moral code.

I loved the character of Gaia, she was strong and independent, but also very real. I thought the story was well written, a little predictable at times, but you will have that. I really liked it and would highly recommend it. This one doesn't come out till April so don't forget about it.

And the verdict is: Read it as soon as you can, I loved it!