Male or female?
Freedom Province gives the choice,
but it’s the only choice they’ll ever get to make!
Imagine being raised with a batch of non-related siblings by a rotating crew of caretakers, medically kept from reaching puberty until age 17 when you decide all your adult physical characteristics including gender…
Visit the book’s site here, then find Remake and its sequel, Resist, at your local library or independent bookstore in hardcover or paperback.
Which cover do you prefer – the misty hardcover or the mix-and-match paperback?
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Book info: Remake (Remake, book 1) / Ilima Todd. Shadow Mountain, 2014 (hardcover); Simon Pulse, 2016 (paperback). [author site] [publisher site] [book trailer] Review copy and cover images courtesy of the publishers.
My book talk: Perhaps “Uncertain” would be a better name for Nine, who wants to run away on Remake Day instead of deciding whether to remain female or become male. The other 17 year olds in her Batch know exactly who they want to be as adults, unconcerned about the Prime Maker’s master plan for total control over Freedom Province.
When an accident rocks the Remake shuttle, Nine washes ashore on an island with people who aren’t perfectly formed, who don’t live in identical highrise buildings, who nurture the tropical land and each other.
Pregancy? Illness? Disability? What are those things?
How does being a “family” make those worries easier?
Can Nine adapt when Freedom’s medications leave her system?
Decisions that Nine must make on the island may have even greater consequences than her Remake Day choice, as she discovers Freedom Province’s deepest secrets.