Birthmarked by Caragh M. O'Brien
My rating: 2 of 5 stars
There are books with great cover summaries but poorly planned plots. This is one of them. The idea - a walled society where the insiders adopt the children of outsiders and a midwife rebels against the society - was interesting. Gaia and all of her supporters made a never-ending series of decisions that showed consistent lack of planning or understanding. And the number of coincidences required to make everything turn out was ludicrous. I also fail to understand the people. I have a sense that the insiders were supposed to be a cruel, uncaring, living-it-up group but they raised children, educated them, married, worked, loved. The leader was intended to be cruel but except for behavior related to the loss of a child, it wasn't obvious. There were public hangings on a regular basis but the apathy of the public and the bizarreness of the crimes was unexplained. The society has DNA testing and an ability to track births which makes the premise of finding a coded list to be completely unnecessary. I read the book...it was okay...nothing that I'd read again.
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