*3.5 stars

So this book had a lot going on. It takes place about 20 years in the future. A virus called HPSV has made most people over the age of 20 infertile, so the world has changed to make pregnancy, and "pregging for profit" the main goal of all teenagers. Little girls are raised to score contracts with older couples who want children but have been left infertile by the virus. A whole new set of slang has been developed that centers around pregnancy: words like "fertilicious", "neggy", and "breediest" are commonplace. This makes the writing creative and original, but also causes it to be a little confusing at first.

The main characters are twin sisters named Harmony and Melody. They have just met for the very first time.

Harmony: was raised in the Church, the most extremist religious environment in the 2030s. She has faith in her faith, but she doesn't completely support the way of the Church- marrying girls off as young as age 13 to start reproducing. As soon as she found out she had a twin sister, it became her main goal to find her in the "Otherside", save her, and then bring her back to the Church settlement of Goodside. Harmony seems very innocent and pure, but she definitely has her own demons that she's running from.

Melody: was raised in a mainly secular society, by her adoptive parents Ash and Ty, whose main goal in childraising was to make Melody the most unique, talented girl in the world, so that she would be able to get the very best conception contract when she came of age. This is jeopardized, at least in the eyes of her parents, when her identical twin comes into the picture.
Melody has a very obvious crush on her sweet, well-meaning best friend Zen, but he is waayyy too short to bump with, and Melody is scared that having an "everythingbut" (as in, everything but sex) will give too much possibility of messing up her contractual obligation to bump with only the Sperm that is specially chosen by the people who she's signed to (in this futuristic society, there's no such thing as protected sex. Condoms are illegal, and all sex is for the purpose of reproduction, not love).

This book is very creative and innovative. I was able to connect with both of the main characters, even though at first it seemed like they were going to be very distant. The revelations that they each had were incredibly true to their characters, but still were almost complete turnarounds.

What really bothered me about this book was the ending. I know that there is a sequel planned, but that's no excuse for ending the book right in the middle of a scene. It was awful. Overall, however, I enjoyed this book quite a bit. I am definitely going to read the sequel.

*Cover: Okay. I don't know what the author could have done differently to make it better, but I thought it wasn't the best.*