She also begins dating a teen named Blake whom she begins to fall in love with. Callie returns to Helena's home and continues living as though she is Helena renting Callie's body. Helena who is close to one hundred years old, warns Callie not to return to Prime Destinations. Confused, she is helped by a boy who another renter claims is 'all teen' named Blake.Įven more strange, Callie discovers can communicate intermittently with her renter, Helena Winterhill inside her head. Callie wakes up a week into her rental to find herself in Club Rune in Los Angeles. But during the third rent, something unusual happens. Callie knows nothing about what has happened to her body during the rentals. Everything goes well for the first two rents, which are short. Prior to renting, every Starter gets a complete body makeover, with all scars and imperfections being completely removed. It's almost the same concept that was used by humans in James Cameron's Avatar.Ĭallie eventually decides to become a donor. The teen-donor remembers nothing of what happened while his/her body was being rented. The Ender can then use the teen's body for however long the rental period is.

The renter and the Starter are connected via a computer and once the connection is made, the renter simply uses her mind to take over the body of the young teen, whose conscious mind is put to sleep. The Starter has a neuro-chip embedded into their brain. The renter has a cap with electrodes fitted on her/his head which connects them to a Body Computer Interface.

Prime Destinations is a company run by a mysterious man known only as Old Man, that enables Enders to rent the body of a Starter for a period of time. She has heard about this company out on the street and knows that she can earn a great deal of money but she needs to know more.

With Tyler sick, Callie decides to pay a visit to Prime Destinations. They spend their time hiding from the Marshals who capture unclaimed children and scrounging for enough food to eat. When the spore bombs were unleashed earlier than expected, all people between the ages of 20 and 60 died, leaving many children orphaned and uncared for.Ĭallie Woodland and her brother, Tyler, are two such children, orphaned and living in an abandoned office towers with a friend named Michael. Fearing a bio-war, America began vaccinating it's citizens, with those considered most at risk, the very young and the elderly, being the first to be vaccinated. Price's post-apocalyptic world arose after the Spore Wars between America and unnamed Pacific Ocean countries (does she mean China?). America is comprised of very elderly people, Enders, and very young people, Starters. Lissa Price has created a fascinating post-apocalyptic world in her debut novel, Starters. Starters is Lissa Price's debut novel set in America decimated by war and a deadly sickness.

Starters by lissa price