![]() In reality, what they know is that she has impenetrable skin, is very fast, and has lived for seventeen years. To start, the scientific community is truly convinced that Pia is immortal. So it is jarring when some of the science Khoury carefully explains to add realism to her novel is not quite sound. When the novel opens, the impression is that all will be based on cold scientific fact. Readers’ reactions to this approach, however, will probably vary until they figure out it is the intended approach. Review: Origin is an original debut novel that is on the forefront of the growing fad of genetic engineering but combines the science with a bit of magic. Then, Pia finds a whole in the fence, and she begins to wonder how much she has been missing from the outside world, and whether there are things she cannot sacrifice, even for her dream. Her only dream is to help engineer a race of people like her. ![]() ![]() ![]() Her scientist family has warned her that the world is not yet ready for her kind, and so she must stay hidden. Summary: Pia is an immortal girl living in a secret compound in the middle of the Amazon. Source: ARC won from Scattered Pages (Thanks!) ![]()
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