Twenty years into the
future, bioengineered animals provide organs for human transplantation.
Grafts of animal skin have replaced tattoos in popularity, which gives
rise to a unique new demographic: xenofreaks. Bryn Vega’s father is head
of the Pure Human Society and when she’s kidnapped by the Bestia
Butcher, the most notorious of the criminal xenosurgeons, she assumes
it's payback for her father’s anti-xeno activities. Scott Harding is her
taciturn jailer-called Cougar because of the claws replacing his
fingers-but Scott is not who he seems. Deep under cover for the
Xenofreak Intelligence Agency, he’s been given unprecedented immunity to
find the Bestia Butcher’s lair and do whatever it takes to bring him to
justice. When Bryn is forced to undergo a radical xenoalteration, she
discovers a terrible secret: her father is using The Pure Human Society
as a front for his own purposes. His willingness to sacrifice his
daughter to accomplish them sends her running to Scott for protection,
and into the hard-core underground subculture of the very xenofreak
society she once despised. From Goodreads. I have to admit I bought this book for the title as it is not easy to find books starting with X. But this book was better than expected and I have already bought the second in this series as I would like to know what happens to the two main characters.
This book qualifies for:
Goodreads 2013 Reading Challenge
Serious Readers 2013
Tower Teams Read 2013-2
2013 Ebook Challenge
2013 A-Z Reading Challenge
Dystopia Reading Challenge 2013
2013 Why Buy the Cow? Reading Challenge (free on Amazon.uk 8th of October 2013)
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