I’ve decided to start a new series on my blog…what I’m reading. All the books I’ll post about will be ones I think are buy worthy. My first recommendation is Remake by Ilima Todd.
Remake by Ilima Todd
genre: YA dystopian
Nine is the ninth female born in her batch of ten females and ten males. By design, her life in Freedom Province is without complications or 
consequences. However, such freedom comes with a price. The Prime Maker is determined to keep that price a secret from the new batches of citizens that are born, nurtured, and raised androgynously.
But Nine isn’t like every other batcher. She harbors indecision and worries about her upcoming Remake Day — her seventeenth birthday, the age when batchers fly to the Remake facility and have the freedom to choose who and what they’ll be.
When Nine discovers the truth about life outside of Freedom Province, including the secret plan of the Prime Maker, she is pulled between two worlds and two lives. Her decisions will test her courage, her heart, and her beliefs. Who can she trust? Who does she love? And most importantly, who will she decide to be?
Why I Loved It
Remake takes tough issues and beautifully explores them. What does gender mean? What does family mean? And what is freedom, really?
Nine’s personality and quest to find herself drew me in from page one. I immediately fell in love with her character, and with her friendship with Theron. I agonized along with her as she tried to decide what choices to make for her Remake. And then, I fell in love with Kai and how he pushed Nine to make decisions for herself, based on her own beliefs. I was pulled through the book from beginning to end. The pacing was brisk, and I never wanted to stop reading and set the book down. The principles the book reaffirms gave me shivers more than once.
I also really appreciated the ending. I feel like the author definitely left it open for a sequel, but she also tied up enough loose ends that it wasn’t a cliffhanger, which I appreciated. Overall, a fantastic debut by an author I’ll definitely be reading more of in the future.
You can buy Remake here!