A wake-up call for what can happen and has happened when people play God messing with virus manipulation. I loved how Sam was so protective of Ruby! There are quite a few surprises that I did not see coming, made for an entertaining read!

I love you so much mom and dad.

I enjoyed the story a lot it was an interesting story I just wish the main characters was a bit different in some ways but that’s how humans are we have different thoughts and plans~

A interesting read. Ruby’s whinnying can get on your nerves after awhile but you have to realize she is barely 17. Even tho she feels grown she is still a child. It would be so nice if we all had a man in our life’s like Sam! I do wish for stories with a ending that didn’t leave you hanging. It’s always “ The next series “ Tiresome after awhile. Jan.23 2023 camie12

Love this book, I love the characters, I love how right off the bat you enter this whole new world, I’m constantly on the edge of my seat, like I can’t read fast enough. I love everything about this series. It’s a page turner for sure💕

the lead character is too self centered to have insight and cause or escalates each situation. hope other brats do not get more ideas and add to their narcissim. plot is familiar from many other stories and shows. i did give star because i read it hoping for ruby to mature.

Well written

Wow! Just… wow! So to read this a bit of the way into a pandemic is probably better than reading it at the start of a pandemic. I think that made the read even better though, as it seems something that could actually happen. Our country could definitely dissolve into the state it is in in this series. Ruby is a teenager about to start her life as an adult in the sanitation industry. Not as in she will engineer sewage treatment plants or work on a garbage truck, but that she is part of the team doing the literal dirty work in her tiny settlement of Unmarked citizens. There aren’t too many healthy people left in the world. There is a strong division between the Unmarked, pure, uninfected citizens, and those who are the outcasted Marked individuals. Each sect has banded together. The Unmarked town where Ruby lives is still a functioning society with schooling and a government similar to what we are used to. The Marked is a wild, wild west of sorts, but run by perpetual preteens. The only way to survive the fatal illness is to take hormone suppressants to halt the growth of the children’s bodies. Otherwise you get three years, or less if the disease is accelerated. Can’t really say either life sounds too great. Ruby’s crush plays spin the bottle with their classmates and it lands on her. That kiss thoroughly wrecks her life. Looking forward to the second book to see where Ruby, Wesley, Sam, and all the rest end up. The first book was stuffed full of surprises, and not all of them great for these plucky teens and crumbled societies.

This is a fabulous book. I’ve read it multiple times. I thoroughly enjoy the humor and watching the characters learn and grow.

Just started this series, and I am glad I did! Good YA book . Finished this book and have already started on the next.