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 The first half of Prized slowly strips away a lot of what we liked about Gaia Stone, fugitive teenage midwife. She escaped the dystopian Enclave with her baby sister, but at the cost of the guy she sorta-not-quite-sure-she-loves, Leon. After weeks in the wilderness, she’s scooped up by another dystopian society, Sylum, … 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 