![]() ![]() The law is that each midwife must turn in the first three babies she delivers each month and this is, of course, Gaia’s first. Things go, happily, without incident and both baby and mother are fine.Īnd then Gaia takes the baby from its mother and takes it to the walls of the Enclave. ![]() On the night the story begins, however, Gaia’s mother is elsewhere delivering another baby, and Gaia ends up delivering a baby on her own for the first time. Like the editor, the most convincing argument for this Birthmarked book is what happens in the first chapter – Gaia Stone is sixteen years old and helps her mother in her role as midwife. Since I haven’t read The Handmaid’s Tale, I’d say it’s more like The Hunger Games meets The Giver. The inside of the cover of my ARC of this book has a letter from the executive editor of Roaring Brook Press and she could have pitched Birthmarked as The Hunger Games meets The Handmaid’s Tale, but she instead likes to tell people what happens in the first chapter. ![]() This is one of the few I’ve read that I really enjoyed. And book after book has completely disappointed me. I’ve read a lot of advance copies YA fiction so far this year (most of it from ALA), much of it from debut authors, much of it HIGHLY hyped. Strong heroine, dystopian world, mystery and intrigue, and a little romance. 9 of 10: Birthmarked just was begging for me to like it. ![]()
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