Cold Awakening series by Robin Wasserman

Post date: Mar 6, 2015 5:36:08 PM

The Cold Awakening series is comprised of three books: Skinned, Crashed, and Wired. Skinned is set in a war ravaged futuristic world. Society has been divided into two groups. On small elite group has all the wealth and everyone else lives in extreme poverty. The wealthy live on country estates while everyone else lives in run down cities or Corp cities. Corp cities are owned and operated by corporations. If you live in a Corp city then you work for the corporation that owns the city, live in corporation housing, and eat corporation food. In Skinned, the main character, Lia, is a wealthy and popular high school girl. Her parents have money, she has lots of friends, wears the latest fashions, and dates rich boys. Then one day she "dies" a horrific car accident. He father wants to "save" her so he has her brain downloaded into an android body. Biomax is in the business of "saving" people creating "Mechs". Mechs are people who were once human. Lia now finds that she is no longer popular. Her friends and boyfriend reject her, and she is now an outcast in Org society. In Crashed, Lia is living in a "Mech" community that is fighting a group called The Brotherhood of Man. This group wants to destroy all Mechs no matter what the cost. A voice from Lia's past comes back and she must decide who she truly wants to be. In Wired, Lia finds out the truth about her car accident. She also learns that the Brotherhood is not the Mechs worst enemy. She must learn who it is and stop them before they destroy all the Mechs. This series questions what it mean to truly be human.