Review: Starters by Lissa Price

Title: Starters (Starters #1)
Author: Lissa Price
Pages: 352
Source: NetGalley
Language: English
Published: March 13, 2012
Publisher: Random House Children’s Books
ISBN: 9780385742375

Goodreads Summary :

In the future, teens rent their bodies to seniors who want to be young again. One girl discovers her renter plans to do more than party–her body will commit murder, if her mind can’t stop it. Sixteen-year-old Callie lost her parents when the genocide spore wiped out everyone except those who were vaccinated first–the very young and very old.

With no grandparents to claim Callie and her little brother, they go on the run, living as squatters, and fighting off unclaimed renegades who would kill for a cookie. Hope comes via Prime Destinations, run by a mysterious figure known only as The Old Man. He hires teens to rent their bodies to seniors, known as enders, who get to be young again. Callie’s neurochip malfunctions and she wakes up in the life of her rich renter, living in her mansion, driving her cars, even dating Blake, the grandson of a senator. It’s a fairy-tale new life . . . until she uncovers the Body Bank’s horrible plan. . . .

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My Thoughts:

I just finished this Book a few Minutes ago. Wow, this was a good one! I was kept in the story after just a few pages and after that there was not one moment I didn’t want to know what would happen next and believe me, it happened a lot! There were a lot of smaller and medium twists in it and also a few big ones. I’m not going to spoiler you, don’t worry. I hate it myself to be spoilered.

Also the Idea that was used about old people renting young peoples bodies was something fresh and new to me. Haven’t seen that before and made me really want to read it. And I am so glad it didn’t disappoint me it was even better than I thought in the beginning.

Since I read the Hunger Games I was searching for another nice Dystopian and this one was right up that Alley. Ok, it is not the Hunger Games but I still gave it 5 Chocolate Hearts which doesn’t happen very often. I definitely recommend it!

Oh, and I just realised that this – as I already guessed – is really the first book in a Series. Really looking forward to the next one!

Cover: I like the Cover design even tho it is so different to the Covers that I normally like but maybe that’s what intrigued me to request it on NetGalley. Which reminds me of wanting to thank Random House for giving me the book to review!

Rating: 5 Chocolate Hearts

Counts for these Challenges:

• 2012 Debut Authors Challenge
• 2012 E-Book Reading Challenge
• 2012 E-Book Challenge
• 2012 Free Reads
• 2012 Outdo Yourself Challenge
• 52 Books in 52 Weeks
• 2012 Young Adult Reading Challenge
• First in a Series

IMM #5 – In my Mailbox January, 15th 2012

So this week I didn’t get any real books, even tho I so desperately wait for The Fault in our Stars by John Green. Sadly Amazon sent it out on January, 12th and I somehow have a feeling that it won’t be signed… but we will see. Maybe I get a yeti, noone knows.

Even tho I got no real books I got a few NetGalley Books and some of them are even ARCs! Woho!

Books I got at NetGalley:

Emerald City by Alicia K. Leppert

So this is one of my first ARCs. The funny thing is, that I got all of them the same day so I can’t even say which was the first one. In addition this is counting for the 2012 Debut Author Challenge.

Release Date: April 9th, 2012

Here is the Goodreads Summary:

Olivia’s sad, solitary life in Seattle comes dangerously close to ending one fateful night, if not for a neighbor saving her in the nick of time. Curious about her mysterious rescuer, she seeks him out in hope of getting some answers, but instead finds something she never thought she’d have again.

The Unbearable Book Club for Unsinkable Girls by Julie Schumacher

This is the second ARC and I read already the first few pages and really liked it. Was looking forward to this one since I requested it and I’m excited that I got it. Thanks to Random House Children’s Books for sending it to me!

Release Date: May 8th, 2012

Goodreads Summary:

I’m Adrienne Haus, survivor of a mother-daughter book club. Most of us didn’t want to join. My mother signed me up because I was stuck at home all summer, with my knee in a brace. CeeCee’s parents forced her to join after cancelling her Paris trip because she bashed up their car. The members of “The Unbearable Book Club,” CeeCee, Jill, Wallis, and I, were all going into eleventh grade A.P. English. But we weren’t friends. We were literary prisoners, sweating, reading classics, and hanging out at the pool. If you want to find out how membership in a book club can end up with a person being dead, you can probably look us up under mother-daughter literary catastrophe. Or open this book and read my essay, which I’ll turn in when I go back to school.

Starters (Starters #1) by Lissa Price

This is another Book I got from Random House Children’s Books. I requested it because it sounds interesting and the Cover looks… scary . This is also a YA Novel by a Debut Author so it counts for the 2012 Debut Author Challenge!

Release Date: March 13th, 2012

Goodreads Summary:

Callie lost her parents when the Spore Wars wiped out everyone between the ages of twenty and sixty. She and her little brother, Tyler, go on the run, living as squatters with their friend Michael and fighting off renegades who would kill them for a cookie. Callie’s only hope is Prime Destinations, a disturbing place in Beverly Hills run by a mysterious figure known as the Old Man.

He hires teens to rent their bodies to Enders—seniors who want to be young again. Callie, desperate for the money that will keep her, Tyler, and Michael alive, agrees to be a donor. But the neurochip they place in Callie’s head malfunctions and she wakes up in the life of her renter, living in her mansion, driving her cars, and going out with a senator’s grandson. It feels almost like a fairy tale, until Callie discovers that her renter intends to do more than party—and that Prime Destinations’ plans are more evil than Callie could ever have imagined. . . .

Forgot to mention that all of these were E-Books for my Kindle. Looking forward to reading all of them. I’m still surprised that I got Books on NetGalley, somehow I thought I wouln’t (yet). I’m curious when I will receive my first actual Paper Copy of a Book or if ever. Looking forward to your IMMs and see you next Week!