Caraugh M. O’Brien Taken as a whole, I’m not sure what genre to assign to O’Brien’s series. Our main characters escape from one dystopian society to another, and then try to fix all the problems by joining the two together. Whether or not it works I will not spoil. But there are enough elements in … Continue reading
Caraugh M. O’Brien Gaia Stone is a teenage midwife. And those two words, teenage and midwife, encapsulate many of her struggles in the Birthmarked Trilogy. TEENAGE. It’s a coming-of-age story. Gaia loses parental guidance, challenges a dystopian system, considers romance, and struggles with how her birthmarked face has come to define her. MIDWIFE. This series … Continue reading
Sarah E. Morin 