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Origin by Jessica Khoury
3.0

Well darn. This is my second time writing this review so it's going to be a lot shorter than the last one. So, this book was better than I thought it would be. Pia starts off as an annoying, little, stuck up Miss Priss being told she is perfect and believing it. And on a biological level, she is perfect, because through generations of genetic tampering, she has been born to never die. Luckily, the adorable love interest, Eio, is introduced and she's brought down a few pegs when she learns through him that the lab she has grown up in, in the middle of the Amazon, has kept her from many wonderful things life has to offer. But it's also kept a lot of other secrets from her, including the sacrifices made to make someone immortal (Full Metal Alchemist, anyone?). She angsts a little too much, Twilight style, but thankfully I could overlook that. This book was a fun, quick read. It wasn't great, but it wasn't terrible.