First published 2009
Lia Kahn remembers being human. She remembers happiness and love and a normal life. Then came the accident that killed her. Six months later, she exists in a mechanical body, her consciousness transferred into a machine. She calls herself a mech now and has found her place among others like her. This new existence offers freedom from rules and fear. When you have lost everything, nothing can hurt you anymore. But someone from her human past reaches out, demanding revenge. The request forces Lia to pick a side. She must choose between the humans she once belonged to and the mechs who accept her now. She faces an impossible decision between protecting her new identity and saving the boy she loved when she was alive. Either choice will destroy part of who she is. The boy may never forgive her for what she has become.
Genres: science-fiction, dystopia, contemporary, young-adult
Vibes: dark, intimate, thought-provoking
Tropes: found-family, identity-crisis
440 pages · Hardcover · Simon & Schuster Books for Young Readers
Content warnings: body-horror, death