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Showing posts with label McCafferty. Show all posts

Sunday, April 29, 2012

Thumped, by Megan McCafferty

Sequel to last year's Bumped.
This was very much a sequel- I don't know if it would stand alone, but luckily I had read Bumped, so was able to jump right in without getting too lost.
Harmony and Melody, twins raised apart in a near future where a virus has affected human reproduction, and female fertility ends at around 18, are international celebrities for both being pregnant with twins. In Bumped, the girls find each other, but Harmony was raised in a kind of God-fearing commune situation, and Melody on the Outside, is putting her surrogate skills up for sale in a bidding war.
Melody's hired star inseminator Jondoe falls in love with Harmony, and is the father of her twins, instead of Ram, the husband she has inside the commune...
OK, I'm going to stop with the annotating.
While thought provoking and timely in addressing women's reproductive rights, this didn't really stand alone, and the ending was very wrap-it-all-up and happy endings for everyone to feel realistic, even in the surreal world they lived in.

Monday, June 6, 2011

Bumped, by Megan McCafferty

Bumped YA dystopia with an interesting premise. Decline of fertility across the globe has led to teenage pregnancies being not only desirable, but highly rewarded. Melodie and Harmony, twins separated at birth, have been raised very differently, but both struggle with the pressure to get bumped. Melodie, a "pro", has been sponsored by a wealthy couple to carry their baby- a six-figure signing bonus, college tuition, and a car- while Harmony was raised by Godseekers in a cultish area called Goodside, and feels that only God should dictate breeding.
Interesting, and for the most part well done, but the end was so sequel-ready that it left me annoyed and unsatisfied.