Spencer's Reviews > Frozen

2019
Lia gets into a horrific car crash and dies... But not really. Her injuries are too severe for her body to survive, so the doctors do a brain scan and upload her information into a teenage robot, called a skinner. When Lia awakens, she learns that she is no longer "human" but something other. As a skinner, she can never be hurt, she can never get sick, she can never die. But she also is never accepted. Everyone at school treats her with disdain. Her own family can't seem to come to accept her.

Only Auden seems to accept her for who/what she is now. A social outcast himself, he is her only friend. Only problem is that he doesn't see it as just friendship. And Lia can't bring herself to see it as anything else *F-R-I-E-N-D-Z-O-N-E* Which means that they aren't really friends because Auden is basically a puppy dog. He just follows her blindly no matter where she wants to go. Eventually, that has to end. The hospital scene really did it for me. I liked Auden up to that point. And I know he was struggling through some serious shizz there, but he said some super awful things.

Lia was the most human person in this book, though. Which is sad since she wasn't technically human at all.

Her sister, Zo was a Ho. She turned all of Lia's friends against her (sort of. They were kind of against her anyway, but she definitely didn't help). And then she started hooking up with Walker (who was Lia's boyfriend before the accident). After she completely ruined any kind of social life that Lia could have had at school, she then ruined any kind of home life she could have had by telling her that no one could tolerate having her around the house. So, that was cruel.

And then there was Walker. The no-longer-boyfriend. He not only gets super zoned (drugs) to "try and be with her" (I guess props for trying?) but then after he realizes that he just can't manage to get it on with her, he then turns to her sister. Who he starts tonguing in the middle of school. Right in front of Lia. So, kind of a scum bag.

It's really interesting to see how the dynamic shifts for Lia after she had the surgery, though. And the science fiction behind it all is very fascinating. I really need to read the rest of the trilogy!