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Monday, September 28, 2009

Crashed



Crashed (Skinned trilogy #2) by Robin Wasserman


In the follow up to Skinned, Lia Kahn has left the home of her former family and is living in a compound/mansion with other mechs. Rights of the mechs' are in question as the Brotherhood become more vocal about how dangerous this new breed of people may be. When Lia's former friend Auden begins speaking out for the Brotherhood against the mechs, Lia is devastated.
Even though she has had no contact with her family in months, when things get tough, they pull through for her.
While living in the compound and trying to figure out or forget what she has become, Lia finally lets someone get close to her. She gets to know Riley.
Although I love the 'idea' of these books, I felt like this one was pretty flat. It took about three hundred pages to feel like I had finally reached the heart of the book. Before that there was too much emotional turmoil........you know the kind.........where you just keep rehashing something you can't seem to get over.
I was glad to see Lia finally have a friend. She felt much more angry in this book and I wasn't going for it.
I did however like learning more about the society after the big wars, and how the caste system had placed people in cities, corp-towns or rich suburbs.
Rating 2.5 I did like the book. It just took a lot of time to cover little ground.
Rating R For language, sex, some homosexuality, drug use (even though it was more like a download, you still understood that it was drug use).

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