Celia McMahon

A huge thanks to Edelweiss and Tor Teen for the e-arc. This was my first book by Charlie Jane Anders, and it won't be my last. I haven't read such a refreshing sci-fi in a long time. With a cross between Space Balls, and Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy, this tops my favorite YA books ever. Tina is a clone, living on Earth and awaiting the day when her beacon would summon her back to space. But when the day comes, she finds herself hunted by a monster as she tries to escape Earth.

Seventeen-year-old Drew wants nothing more than to go to college. But when she's brutally attacked by the son of a wealthy business owner at a club, her dreams come to an abrupt end. She considers reporting it, but it's her word against his and in a world where money is power, the victim can turn into nothing more than a pariah. She decides to turn him in and after a quick trial, she loses. As if that weren't enough, her assaulter sues for defamation. Money can buy a lot of things.