{"id":3305,"date":"2014-04-30T10:00:00","date_gmt":"2014-04-30T15:00:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/booksyalove.com\/?p=3305"},"modified":"2018-06-01T07:02:56","modified_gmt":"2018-06-01T12:02:56","slug":"z-is-zelia-in-control-by-lydia-kang-book-review-future-genetics-love-power","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/booksyalove.com\/?p=3305","title":{"rendered":"Z is Zelia in Control, by Lydia Kang (book review) – future genetics, love & power"},"content":{"rendered":"

\"book<\/a>Genetic differences are illegal,
\nthe United States aren’t united,
\nwelcome to 2150.<\/p>\n

Two sisters with non-standard DNA somehow survive in a society where implanted fingertip IDs<\/a> control access to public transportation and food delivery. The cartel which develops big money products using illegal genes<\/a> from these non-persons can’t wait to get them following their doctor-dad’s untimely death…<\/p>\n

Chilling sci-fi for our last AtoZ April Blog Challenge<\/a> entry – first in a new series, filled with danger, science that’s almost here now, and romance blossoming amid the chaos.
\n**kmm<\/p>\n

Book info<\/strong>: Control (Control, book 1) \/ Lydia Kang. Dial Books for Young Readers, hardcover 2013; paperback 2015.\u00a0 [author site<\/a>]\u00a0 [publisher site<\/a>]\u00a0 [book trailer<\/a>] Review copy and cover image courtesy of the publisher.<\/p>\n

My book talk<\/strong>: After her father’s death and sister’s kidnapping in 2150, Zelia finds allies – and love – among genetically illegal teens being sought by a sinister syndicate.<\/p>\n

Beautiful Dylia and medically fragile Zelia are accustomed to moving often with their doctor dad. But they’re not prepared to be orphaned, separated, and fought over by rival groups who claim they have special genetic traits.<\/p>\n

Rescued by her Dad’s friend, Marka takes Zelia home to her other 4 teen adoptees – a girl with photosynthetic skin, a guy with 4 arms, and another with 2 active brains. What Cy’s trait is – besides surly sarcasm – remains to be seen. Why is Zelia, who looks like a child at 17 and needs help to breathe, in the safety of Carus when it’s Dylia who has special traits?<\/p>\n

Dylia was kidnapped by Aureus group, which creates products using youth with illegal genetic differences – maybe Zel can sequence Dyl’s DNA in Cy’s lab to discover why and find a way to rescue her.<\/p>\n

While trying to understand her dad’s connection to Carus, she’s secretly contacted by Q who promises information about Dylia’s whereabouts…for a price.<\/p>\n

Can her new housemates help Zel find Dylia? Will they risk leaving Carus?
\nIs she willing to trade Cy’s growing fondness for this dangerous opportunity?<\/p>\n

This medical sci-fi thriller is first in a series, asking tough questions about identity, differences, and society since our ‘now’ leads to our future. (One of 7,000 books recommended on www.abookandahug.com<\/a>)<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

Genetic differences are illegal, the United States aren’t united, welcome to 2150. Two sisters with non-standard DNA somehow survive in a society where implanted fingertip IDs control access to public transportation and food delivery. The cartel which develops big money products using illegal genes from these non-persons can’t wait to get them following their doctor-dad’s […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_monsterinsights_skip_tracking":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_active":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_note":"","_monsterinsights_sitenote_category":0,"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false},"categories":[19,68,62],"tags":[10,90,22,4,75,20,5,70,37,16,18,40,44,43,71,39,27,49,12,15,21,66,57,35,33,190,58,3,8,28],"class_list":["post-3305","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-fiction","category-future","category-science-fiction","tag-a2z","tag-abandonment","tag-behavior","tag-belonging","tag-brothers","tag-conflict","tag-coping","tag-crime","tag-death","tag-determination","tag-family","tag-fathers","tag-friendship","tag-growing-up","tag-kidnapping","tag-love","tag-medical","tag-memories","tag-refugees","tag-relationships","tag-self-image","tag-series","tag-sisters","tag-surprises","tag-survival","tag-tbr2013","tag-technology","tag-teens","tag-us-author","tag-villains"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_likes_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/booksyalove.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3305","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/booksyalove.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/booksyalove.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/booksyalove.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/booksyalove.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=3305"}],"version-history":[{"count":9,"href":"https:\/\/booksyalove.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3305\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":9631,"href":"https:\/\/booksyalove.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3305\/revisions\/9631"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/booksyalove.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=3305"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/booksyalove.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=3305"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/booksyalove.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=3305"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}