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Birthmarked

By Caragh M. O'Brien

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| Others | 9781596435698

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When her midwife mother is forcibly taken away by the very people she serves,16-year-old Gaia Stone wonders whether the Enclave deserves the loyalty her family ...

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Prized (Birthmarked) by Caragh M O'Brien

The Cool Age - our age - is long gone. Few people made it and those that did now live in isolated communities. Gaia Stone, a young midwife, has just escaped from the Enclave, where genetic manipulation has both saved and condemned the select few. The ... (read full critics)

thebookbag published on Sun, 2 Oct 2011

Birthmarked by Caragh M O'Brien

Sixteen-year-old Gaia lives in a post-climate change America, near one of the Great Lakes - or the unlake as its waterless hollow is now known. Gaia is a midwife-in-training, following after her mother. For this family, the cool age - that is, our ag ... (read full critics)

thebookbag published on Fri, 4 Mar 2011

2 Reviews

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Leon should have made it over with her!! :((

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Vale Jane Vesper Eloquim said on Apr 13, 2012 | Add your feedback

I wasn't crazy about this book. It wasn't horrible but with so many good books like this right now this one really isn't worth a read until you've gotten through all of those. I didn't find the characters or their motivations believable at all. There were 4 times where the author suddenly threw i ... (continue)

I wasn't crazy about this book. It wasn't horrible but with so many good books like this right now this one really isn't worth a read until you've gotten through all of those. I didn't find the characters or their motivations believable at all. There were 4 times where the author suddenly threw in a big vocab word. I have no problems with big words but the rest of the language was pretty standard and it felt like the author grabbed for a thesaurus and picked something unusual on purpose. I'm not sure if I'll bother to read the next on in the series.

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Deanna Kyre said on Sep 24, 2011 | Add your feedback