Author Highlights Enhanced by Courtney Farrell

I did Courtney's cover reveal, but didn't get a chance to announce her book, Enhanced. This book is a winner for the young adult this Christmas.

Blurb

Sixteen-year-old Michelle is a product of the Institute’s eugenics program, where people are bred like livestock. One doctor decides which kids get to grow up, and which disappear. Only Culls walk into the slum outside Institute walls, and they never come back. Michelle has survived every purge, and she’s about to win a luxurious life as a breeder. Then the doctor banishes her brother Seth and her boyfriend Brian, and she risks everything to find them in the cutthroat slum. She’s in trouble until handsome Dillon stakes a claim to her. Michelle is mortified, because Norms are practically animals. But the doctor is using the missing boys in a twisted plan and she needs Dillon’s help to stop him. Michelle and her friends must find Seth and Brian, but a plague is spreading, the doctor is after her and Dillon isn’t thrilled to help her find her lost boyfriend.

Biography

Courtney Farrell is a molecular biologist who left the laboratory to write books for young people. She authored fifteen nonfiction books on social and environmental issues before transitioning into fiction. Farrell lives on a ranch in Colorado with her husband and sons.

My 4 Star Review

What a great YA Dystopian novel! Not only does the novel make you think, it exposes the teenage angst we've all felt when younger. The story is fast-paced and entertaining, the romance between the two characters entirely believable.

Enhanced is a good read, somewhat rushed in a few places, but overall, really enjoyable. The characters are easy to get to know, sympathetic, and interesting. I like the way they confront fear and overcome it, showing some moral fortitude in the process.

I really enjoyed Cortney Farrell's Enhanced and would recommend it to my YA readers in the family.

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