The Starters reviewed by Portia Rockers

 

 

The Starters is about a future USA where a war called the Spore Wars took place and killed everyone between the ages of twenty and sixty. In this world The young people which are called Starters and the older people that survived are called Enders. The ones that survived were vaccinated so the Enders can live up to 200 years of age. Callie and her brother Tyler live as squatters which means there was no grandparents to take care of them so they live in poverty with other kids like them. In this futuristic world the Enders can rent the bodies of younger people using a microchip inserted in the body for three weeks at a time. When Callie's Younger brother starts to get sick Callie realizes that renting her body is the only way to get the money they need. But something Goes wrong with the chip she wakes up living her renters life and dating a rich governor's grandson. Its almost a dream come true until she realizes what the Renter had planned for her body.

 

Over all I enjoyed the book. The plot line was interesting but is lacked depth. Also there wasn't a lot of character development they just had set values, which some people like but I wasn't to fond of. I liked Callie's personality interesting, she's willing to do anything for her little brother. She even makes sacrifices to make sure he is okay and taken care of. I would recommend this book to people who like science fiction books. If you read and like this book you might want the read the second book called The Enders. Also a book called The Dead Boys.