{Review} Starters (Starters #1) by @Lissa_Price {Giveaway}@NightOwlReviews {Published} @randomhousekids @dana_kaye

Title: Starters
Author: Lissa Price
Series: Starters
Publisher: Random House
Release Date: July 23, 2013
Pages: 384
Format: Paperback
Source: Night Owl Reviews
Rating: 5 Stars
Description:

This edition includes Portrait of a Spore, a never-before-published short story that takes place in the world of STARTERS!

You can’t get them out of your head. . . . 

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.
Callie soon discovers that her renter intends to do more than party—and that Prime Destinations’ plans are more evil than she could ever have imagined. . . .

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Lissa Price’s debut novel STARTERS is an award-winning, international bestseller published in over thirty countries. Dean Koontz called this YA futuristic thriller “a smart, swift, inventive, altogether gripping story.” The LA Times said it is “Dystopian science-fiction at its best,” and “Readers who have been waiting for a worthy successor to ‘The Hunger Games’ will find it here.” 

STARTERS was a Barnes & Noble pick of the month and one of only four debuts on the B&N Best Teen Books of 2012. It was awarded the its Eselsohr for Best YA Book in 2012, selected by a jury of teens in Germany, and was chosen as a top ten favorite book of 2012 by both French and German readers. It won the Crimezone Award for Best YA Thriller and is one of the LAPL's and Chicago Public Library's Best Teen Books of 2012.

Starters was chosen for the IRA Reading List and is the only book nominated for both the Florida Teens Read List and the SSYRA Middle School List 2013-14.

In Germany, Starters launched a brand-new YA imprint of the established Piper Verlag publisher called IVI. Audiobooks have been recorded in English and German.

See the book trailer that played in front of the Hunger Games film in selected theaters in the US and abroad at her site. The release dates for Enders will be announced by the publishers of each country, with some starting in May 2013.

Although parts of the story were predictable don't let that stop you from reading this amazing dystopian.  I would have to say that it has hints of Cinderella as well as a little romance, and a whole lot of running for your life!!  This plot/story was so complex but simple.  It was never dull and it just makes you want to read more!!  This is deff a series that I am so happy to have book two Enders due out Jan. 7th.  Because if I had to wait for it I would be crying.  Lissa Price is deff. a fav author after this one.  The plot to Starters is a war had broken out and of course it turned chemical.  So they vaccinated the very young and the very old just like they normally do with things like the flu.  So then when the spore hit they killed off anyone that was aged 20-50 give or take. Starters will leave you asking for more!  I do hope that she adds to this Duo-logy as I would love a prequel.

"*I received a copy of this book for free to review, this in no way influenced my review, all opinions are 100% honest and my own."

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