Remake by Ilima Todd was an interesting dystopian story. It started out a bit slow for me but picked up as the story unfolded.

In Freedom One, children are born in batches to control the population. At the age of seventeen, the children are sent to the Remake facility where they can choose to be anything they want. The main character, Nine, struggles with this choice and as she compares herself to those around her, continues to wonder how she will make the right choice.

To begin, Nine is different from all of the others in her batch. She has red hair and freckles and this has always made her stand out in the group. Because of this, she quickly forged a friendship with Theron and they have always been close.

On the way to the facility, the shuttle they are traveling in crashes into the ocean and from there things change drastically for Nine. She is no longer in a world where she is protected by her best friend and can buy anything she wants or needs. Now she is living on an island where people have real families and work together to survive. As she learns more about herself, she also begins to see what she has been missing. While her relationship with Kai starts off very rocky, they eventually forge a friendship and then more.

Unfortunately, the tracker in Nine’s head begins to act up and she believes she has put the family she now loves just like her own, in danger. To protect them, she decides she needs to go back to Freedom One to get the tracker removed and Kai is determined to go with her. Of course, things don’t go as smoothly as they planned and they both end up captured. As Nine is taken to the Prime Maker, she finds out more about herself than she expected. She also finds out more than she expected about the Prime Maker.

I can’t say a lot about the plot and everything that happens as I don’t want to give anything away. I don’t know that everyone will enjoy this story as it poses some questions that not everyone will be comfortable with. Although the ending was fairly abrupt I found the story interesting.

Thank you to Netgalley and Shadow Mountain Publishing for the review copy.