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One year ago Lia Kahn died.
A few days later she woke up.
She had a new body: Mechanical, unfeeling, inhuman. She had a new family: Mechs like her, who didn’t judge her for what she could no longer be. She had a new life, one that would last forever.
At least, it was supposed to.
But now everything Lia thought she knew has turned out to be a lie; everyone she thought she loved has been stolen away. And someone is trying to get rid of the mechs, once and for all.
Lia will risk everything to save herself and the people she can’t live without. But not before facing one final truth: She can’t save everyone.
Wired, the final book in Robin Wasserman's Skinned trilogy, finds Lia, once again, up against BioMax. Lia, a 'mech'(a mechanical body whose brain was downloaded from her real brain when she died in a car accident) discovers that BioMax, the company that developed the download process, has grander plans than helping accident victims. They have maintained the discarded human brains from these accident victims and are attempting to manipulate them to cultivate certain aggressive characteristics, which ,when downloaded into robots controlled by BioMax, would supply them with a robotic army of unlimited proportions. An added benefit would be the elimination of all mechs, which would please the orgs (humans) of the world. Along with fellow mech, Jude, and orgs Auden (former friend) and Zo (Lia's sister), this quartet must stop the demise of the mechs and proliferation of robots. Skinned (Simon Pulse, 2008/VOYA October 2008) and Crashed (Simon Pulse, 2009/VOYA August 2009) must be read to understand Wired. Wired does not contain much action. The plot is not realistic, nor is it very interesting. Wasserman spends too much time setting the scene and reintroducing characters from the trilogy's first two books, and not enough time or energy describing the BioMax threat and the plan to defeat the corporation. The apparatus needed by the quartet to thwart BioMax's plans seem to appear out of thin air. They basically have no plan, and much of the book is taken up with this realization. Lia's ultimate victory over BioMax was confusing to this reader. Fans of this trilogy might be disappointed with the finale. Reviewer: Ed Goldberg
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Kathleen Sun
reviewed Wired on January 21, 2011
Wired
Maybe this is just my problem with too-high expectations, but why are the conclusions to most trilogies always such a letdown? I just didn't feel engaged with the story anymore, and I completely lost interest and motivation halfway through. I skimmed the last half and just felt bored and confused. Why bother? Maybe I just like being teased by the possibilities of Book #1 in a series. "Skinned", like "The Adoration of Jenna Fox", raised some interesting bioethical questions. I was never really a fan of the unlikable Lia Kahn, but she just got more aggravating as the series progressed, and her romantic entanglements and friendships felt cold and insincere, as if trying to convince me that mechs can't in fact feel real love. But apparently they can whine and angst all over the place about it. I couldn't get back into the BioMax and Brotherhood conspiracy stuff, and I had to bail out. I'm being generous with two stars since I did enjoy the start to this series, despite its disappointing conclusion.
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