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Scaled
| Title | Scaled |
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| Date | 2024-10-11 21:13:17 |
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| Link | Listen Read |
Desciption
A meteor explodes over the Midwest, and teens exposed to the fragments break out in a rash of glittering scales. Among the affected are a homophobic bully, an honor student, and a witty gay guy. Zack, Hilde, and Silas overcome their initial antagonism to form an unlikely alliance. As the scales spread over their bodies, they must work together to combat their self-loathing, accept their alienness, and escape the forces bent on crushing them.
Review
A very compelling read. Hard to put down. The plot moves along at a good clip but not at the expense of character development, so realistic that the teenagers remind me of some I have known. Many good themes for YA (and other) readers — the pain of being different, the longing to belong, alienation from family and society, the threat of drug addiction and sexual abuse, homophobia, teen pregnancy, and more. No doubt this novel was conceived and written before the Age of COVID-19, but it hits some familiar chords as the infected are vilified and quarantined, and everybody is hoping for a vaccine and return to normalcy. For this series I will break my rule of reading only the first novel of a YA trilogy. I look forward to the second in the Deep Skin series by J.T. Ashmore.
