Origin

by Jessica Khoury

"Pia has grown up in a secret laboratory hidden deep in the Amazon rain forest. She was raised by a team of scientists who have created her to be the start of a new immortal race. But on the night of her seventeenth birthday, Pia discovers a hole in the electric fence that surrounds her sterile home―and sneaks outside the compound for the first time in her life."

Origin had a very interesting and scientific premise, and I did enjoy its opening pages. Pia, sheltered from the outside world, is restrained entirely by her family; by her nature as an Immortal. Her dream is to help create a race of people like her, ultimately so that she will not be alone. Unfortunately I could not engage myself in the story; the writing style did not capture my interest. I didn't find the themes of rebellion to have been smoothly or believably executed. I did, however, enjoy the end, as predictable as it may have been...

2/5 stars.