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Cover Inspection:
Okay... so whats's the connection with the story?

SUMMARY (book description based on GoodReads):
Juliette hasn't touched anyone in exactly 264 days.
The last time she did, it was an accident, but The Reestablishment locked her up for murder. No one knows why Juliette's touch is fatal. As long as she doesn't hurt anyone else, no one really cares. The world is too busy crumbling to pieces to pay attention to a 17-year-old girl. Diseases are destroying the population, food is hard to find, birds don't fly anymore, and the clouds are the wrong color.
The Reestablishment said their way was the only way to fix things, so they threw Juliette in a cell. Now so many people are dead that the survivors are whispering war-- and The Reestablishment has changed its mind. Maybe Juliette is more than a tortured soul stuffed into a poisonous body. Maybe she's exactly what they need right now.
Juliette has to make a choice: Be a weapon. Or be a warrior.

BOOK REPORT CARD:

Cover	3.0
Plot	3.0
Writing	3.5
Characters	3.0
Ending	3.0
Overall Rating	3.0 Very Good! (89% to 92%) * highest rating possible is 4.0

LOCATION/SETTING:
Another dystopian book. The book is set in a place where there are no more trees and no more birds flying. The place is governed by The Reestablishment, a group that seeks to make everyone uniform as they believe that diversity was the key to chaos.

MAIN CHARACTER:
The main character is Juliette. Her parents stopped touching her when she was just a baby. This is because a simple touch can be lethal. Juliette does not know why she is this way. All her life, she was considered an outcast. Despite this fact however, she remained kindhearted.

WHAT THE BOOK IS ABOUT:
The story starts out with Juliette counting the days she has been stuck in a prison cell. People fear her special ability - she can kill with a mere touch. Then one day, a boy, a handsome one at that, was placed in the same cell as her. His name is Adam, by the way. Little does she know that she was actually being watched by the government as it wants to utilize her power in instilling fear in people. She was then taken to the house of the handsome nineteen year old sector leader named Warner, who treated her like an "imprisoned queen." Now, she must try to escape or be the government's weapon that she does not want to be.

LOVE:
What I love about this book is the writing and /or style. Yes, I admit, it may seem unconventional at first, but I got used to it after the first chapter. The book was filled with non-use of commas, synonyms, and figures of speech. One must read the book in order to understand this.

NO LOVE:
What I didn't like about this is that, while reading, I felt as if it was leading to nowhere. The climax of the story was near the end, and the story ended so abruptly. This may be a good thing for some as it makes the reader frustrated and hungry for the second installment.

FAVORITE CHARACTER:
I like Kenji (Adam's friend). He was the lighter side of the story. Adam and Juliette are so serious all the time, and Kenji provided the much needed comic relief.

FAVORITE LINE:

"I'm not afraid of you, my dear," he says softly. "I'm absolutely enchanted."

MUSINGS:
In this book, everything is about hope. For me, there were a lot of symbolism about hope, change, and freedom. All her life, Juliette was never in full control of herself. There was always something (or someone) controlling her. It's sad actually. Moving on to the romance... yes, there was a lot of hot and heavy romance in this book. (Some of it happened in the shower.) I did love Adam and Juliette's coupling, but I may have a thing for Warner too. The two boys are polar opposites: Adam is stable, Warner is obsessive. Adam is driven by the desire to protect, Warner is driven by passion and ambition. And when it comes to the make out scenes, Adam is water, Warner is fire.

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