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May 26, 2012ROBERT JAMES DUNLOP rated this title 3.5 out of 5 stars
I found Skinned when browsing TVTropes (come on, tell me that's never happened to you), and honestly didn't expect too much from it. It's Young Adult, and the initial impression one would get is that it's about a young girl dealing with the travails of progressing into young womanhood, with a twist. And it is... but _what_ a twist. Boys, high school, popularity - combined with a dystopian future post-nuclear-war society, class struggles... oh, and the main character having had her mind downloaded, after a terrible car accident, into a synthetic body. The book covers, by allegory, irrational religious persecution, marginalized populations, social equality, and, more directly, the concept of what it is to be, and what makes a person. I would say that it gets progressively darker throughout, and while I will not spoil the ending, it is unnerving, but potentially inspiring. I enjoyed this book far more than I initially thought I would, and can recommend it to any SF fan, particularly those fond of things like Sawyer's "Mindscan".