Science
has isolated the kill gene. Slowly but surly the United State is rolling out
mandatory testing for HTS, Homicidal Tendency
Syndrome. People found to have the gene for HTS are being separated in society
and marked. Cities are being locked down and quarantined, images on TV show
murder and destruction always at the hands of those that have tested positive
for HTS.
Davy never really thought about it though, other than how scary
those people on TV were, and knowing to avoid the big cities. Her life is perfect;
she has perfect grades and the boyfriend and social calendar to rival a rock
star. Not to mention, she is a musical prodigy who received acceptance to Julliard.
Everything is going the way it should for a spoiled girl; that is until she
arrives home one night to strangers and her parents waiting for her.
Weeks earlier, her private school has tested all the children,
and Davy’s test had come up positive. It doesn’t matter that she is sweet and
mild mannered, one day she will be a killer. After all, it is written into her
DNA, there is no escaping nature. Suddenly Davy finds herself isolated and
alone, her boyfriend and friends dump her, her new school is practically a cage
where the man in charge takes sexual advantage of the girls, even her parents seem
to be scared on her.
The country is becoming worse, riots and fear are fueling hatred
and causing the government to push through new legislation against the carries
of HTS. After tensions amass to extraordinary heights, causing Davy to stay
home for days on end without reprieve, news breaks that every carrier is being
rounded up and taken to detention camps. Davy and her family have no choice but
to wait, wait for the government to come and collect her.
But that isn’t what happens. There is another program for
carriers, a program that only fifty people qualified for. It is a training camp
for carriers, carriers who show abilities to be molded into government spies
and assassins. Somehow Davy has qualified, and if she survives training and
does everything they tell her to she might one day have a life again. A life
without an imprint and a life full of purpose, she can be important again. That
is only if she can survive and pass the training, and once at the camp, Davy
isn’t sure it is something she wants. Turning into a killer isn’t what she
wants for her life, its what she is trying to prove she isn’t, but others at
the camp really are killers and they don’t want Davy around.
This book is brilliant; it’s a subject that people talk about
all the time when bad things happen. If we had the ability to isolate certain
genes would it actually be helpful, what is the relationship between nature and
nurture. How long can society tell you something about yourself before you
start to believe and become it. This novel address’ these issues, and has a
main character evolve with the story. I hated what spoiled brat Davy acted like
in the beginning, but as her perfect life gets stripped away, she becomes a
real person who I can relate to.
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