Julia Karr Boeken

Every girl gets one.An XVI tattoo on the wrist--sixteen.Some girls can't wait to be sixteen, to be legal. Nina is not one of them. Even though she has no choice in the matter, she knows that so long as her life continues as normal, everything will be okay.Then, with one brutal strike, Nina's normal is shattered; and she discovers that nothing that she believed about her life is true. But there's one boy who can help--and he just may hold the key to her past.But with the line between attraction and danger as thin as a whisper, one thing is for sure...For Nina, turning sixteen promises to be anything but sweet

Nina had a normal life. That was before her normal was shattered. Before she discovered the truth about her family . . . And now that she's sixteen, she sport the same Governing Council-ordered tattoo of XVI on her wrist. The one that all sixteen-year-old girls are forced to get. The one that announces to the world that she is easy prey for predators. But Nina won't be anyone's stereotype. And so when she joins up with a small force within the Resistance, she knows that they will have to put an end to one of the most terrifying secret programs the GC has ever created. Because the truth always come out. And the consequences can be deadly. 'A well-written, accessible . . . thriller.' Booklist 'A fun little thriller.' Kirkus Reviews ' A thought-provoking dystopian debut.' Publishers Weekly