Apart from the main character being shallow, unlikeable, self-centered and has a poor me attitude this would make a good story. It is a miracle beautiful, popular, seventeen year old Lia Kahn is alive after a horrific accident but her new body is a machine which looks human but nothing inside is organic. It doesn't even look like Lia but she will never age and can't die. Lia still feels like herself but in a different body. Slowly Lia adjust to her new body but she doesn't have the same sensations anymore, and her body reacts differently now. Everyone around Lia tries to adjust to the new Lia her family and friends and just as Lia starts to accept herself as 'human' she is shunned by her friends and boyfriend. No one understands that she is still the same person underneath. She is introduced to other 'Mechs' who embrace who they are but Lia is still struggling with who she I. Is she still human? Lia is rejected by the human world and cannot accept life in the other. Her only friend is a human Auden who is fasincated with who she is. It is only another tragic event that forces Lia to chose where she belongs.
Skinned is a novel about identity and what it means to be human. However most of the humans in the story are unlikeable and shallow and Lia's sister is horrible. It is the Mech's that are more real and in her interactions with them that Lia acts more human. The concepts are great and I am interested in finding out more about Lia's story, however I hope that Lia gets over herself so that I can enjoy the story..
6/10
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