Starters

Author Lissa Price
Narrator Rebecca Lowman
Publisher Penguin Random House Children's UK
Publish Date 4 September 2014
Run Time 10 hours and 19 minutes
Format Audio
Genre Children’s / Teenage fiction and true stories, Children’s / Teenage fiction: Fantasy, Children’s / Teenage fiction: Relationship stories – Romance, love or friendship, Children’s / Teenage fiction: Science fiction.

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What to expect

First, Callie lost her parents.

Then she lost her home.

And, finally, she lost her body.

But she will stop at nothing to get it back . . .

Callie and her little brother are on the run, living as squatters, fighting off unclaimed renegades who would kill for a cookie. But with the Body Bank comes a promise of much-needed cash, and with it, hope. And then despair . . .

The Bank allows teenagers to rent out their bodies to those who want to be young again. But Callie’s renter intends to do more than party in her body. She intends to murder . . .

Critics Review

If youu2019re a Hunger Games fan, then move Starters straight to the top of your to-read pile u2013 youu2019ll love it.

Metro

The concept is compulsively gruesome . . . Price develops her plot and characters with tight, punchy writing and a sure, confident touch. There must be a movie in this . . .

The Daily Mail

A bona fide page-turner.

MTV.com

Readers who have been waiting for a worthy successor to Suzanne Collinsu2019s The Hunger Games will find it here. Dystopian sci-fi at its best.

Los Angeles Times

This bleak dystopian novel makes a compelling read . . . Grabs the reader's attention from the first page

Booktrust

Price is a gifted writer.

Lionel Shriver

Big dystopian acquisition set in an ageing, post-war world where youth is coveted at a near impossible price. The author's screenwriting day job is evident in the high-concept, high-octane plot. Sequel to follow this autumn.

The Bookseller

The ambiguous and tantalizing ending to this original and exciting story signals a sequel.

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