Skinned is a book set in the near future, in America, as usual. The main character's name is Lia Kahn, who lives in a world of cloning and T-shirts that flicker between messages and pictures while still on your body. She is part of the group that sets the trends, and has to work hard to stay on top. But she's happy, with her boyfriend and her little sister who has no fashion sense.
This book has two blurbs, which is rather unusual in modern Young Adult books, and the back blurb reads -
"It's pretty," he said.
It. Meaning me.
"You're pretty," he cauthimself. Too late. "Now. Like this."
"You don't have to lie."
He shifted in the seat. "I guess I just thought you'd look a little more..."
"Like me?" But as soon as I said it, I knew that wasn't what he'd meant. I knew what he'd wanted to say; I knew him too well.
I thought you'd look more... human.
While the inside cover blurb reads -
Some miracles come with a price.
Lia Kahn was perfect: Rich, beautiful, popular - until the accident that nearly killed her. Now she has been downloaded into a new body that only looks human. Lia will never feel pain again, she will never age, and she can't ever truly die. But she is also rejected by her friends, betrayed by her boyfriend, and alienated from her old life.
Forced to the fringes of society, Lia joins others like her. but they are looked at as freaks. They are hated... and feared. They are everything but human, and according to most people, this is the ultimate crime, for which they must pay the ultimate price.
Lia is terribly unhappy, hates her life even. In her rehabilitation after the accident while learning to use her new body, she learns that her family regrets bringing her back, and that her life is no longer worth living.
Then she meets Auden. He's a traditional boy, who thinks she's gorgeous. She hates him, but he hangs around anyways.
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