From Goodreads: Callie lost her parents when the Spore Wars wiped out everyone between the ages of twenty and sixty. She and her little brother, Tyler, go on the run, living as squatters with their friend Michael and fighting off renegades who would kill them for a cookie. Callie’s only hope is Prime Destinations, a disturbing place in Beverly Hills run by a mysterious figure known as the Old Man.

He hires teens to rent their bodies to Enders—seniors who want to be young again. Callie, desperate for the money that will keep her, Tyler, and Michael alive, agrees to be a donor. But the neurochip they place in Callie’s head malfunctions and she wakes up in the life of her renter, living in her mansion, driving her cars, and going out with a senator’s grandson. It feels almost like a fairy tale, until Callie discovers that her renter intends to do more than party—and that Prime Destinations’ plans are more evil than Callie could ever have imagined. . .

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Imagine a world where minors have no rights.  Without a grandparent to claim them, any and all minors still alive after the Spore Wars are rounded up and sent to an institution, much like the worst labor camps known to man.  But those who are able to allude the Marshalls have a chance to squat in abandon houses and remain free, even though their lives aren’t much better than those in the institution. 

Enter Prime Destinations.  Everything they’re doing is illegal, but so far under the radar that very few people actually know about it.  But Callie has heard about the money they offer and anything, even giving up a few weeks of her life, beats squatting, going hungry, and watching her little brother suffer.  But then things start going wrong…

I really enjoyed Price’s characterization and situations throughout this novel.  Callie is a feisty protagonist with a big heart, doing everything she can to save what is left of her family.  Stuck between a rock and a hard place, Callie must figure out why she keeps waking up with guns in her hands, what her Ender is really trying to do with her body, and what Prime Destinations is planning for the future.  Price has created a gripping tale that captured my attention and didn’t let go until the very last page.  I especially enjoyed the suspense within the novel and, though atrocious what the Enders have planned for the young Starters, it was a captivating tale. Watching Callie piece everything together though the clues expounded throughout the story was a lot of fun.  I think this is a very well written novel and would recommend it to anyone

Although I would have liked to know more about the Spore Wars, as this is the first novel in the series, I am hoping that, in future novels, Price delves more into what happened in the past to explain more of what is going on in the present.  Overall, I don’t think it took away from the story at hand, but I did have a few nagging questions about how/why, etc., and though it was touched upon here and there throughout the novel, not all my questions were answered.

Even though book one isn’t even out yet, I am eagerly awaiting the arrival of book two.  This is a series I will continue to read.  Four stars.

Random House Children’s Books has been extremely gracious in allowing me to read an ARC of this novel, via Netgalley, prior to its release on March 13th, 2012, in exchange for an honest review.