Jenna Fox wakes from a coma following a devastating accident, her memory a blank. One day she can’t walk; the next she can. One day her right eyelid droops; the next it doesn’t. Her parents call her recovery a miracle – but at what cost has it come? What are they hiding from her? And why does her grandmother, Lily, hate her so?Who is Jenna Fox?

I picked this book up at random noting only that it looked interesting and that I hoped I’d be able to get a Mondayitis from it. I was blown away, totally. What a book this is! Set in the future when we have a product that can be used to make appendages look completely real and work almost perfectly, not just limbs but also organs such as livers and kidneys. But how do we know when this is to be used and when not? How do we know when a person has lost too much? As it turns out there’s a points system.

‘Well, one way is point values,’ she says. ‘Everyone gets a lifetime maximum of one hundred points. My limbs, for instance. The implanted digital technology to work with the prosthetics is very low point value. Sixteen points for all of them. But a heart – that’s worth thirty-five alone. Throw in lungs and kidneys and you’re at ninety-five points.’ Says Allys.

Jenna’s accident was very severe and she was left with 10% of her, she was expected to die as she had too many points to use this product, Bio Gel. But, her father is the inventor of Bio Gel and managed to pull enough strings to get her revived. It’s not what you know but who, in this case.

There are some extremely big ethical questions in this book. Should Jenna have been revived? If we have the technology should we use it? What is the cut off point of humanity?

There are so many ethical questions in this book, all raised in such a way that they’re mostly easy to understand. It’s an excellent jumping off point for teens or young adults, easy to read but packing a huge punch.