I really, really liked this book. I would give it 4 1/2 out of five stars. It's about a time (I'm assuming in the future but it could be now)when it's legal to genetically modify and sell girls as pets. Now, generally, these pets are just supposed to sit there and look pretty for their owners. But, come on, when you legally own a person, that's not all that's going to happen. So, these girls are born in kennels-given numbers instead of names-and modified to be small and pretty. At a certain age, they move to a training center, where they learn how to be a perfect pet. Once they turn 17-maybe it's 16, I can't remember and I'm too lazy to go upstairs and get the book right now- they are sold at a VERY high price to important people. Number Eight (whom is later named Ella by her owners) is sold to a senator and his very unenthusiastic wife to be a playmate to their young daughter. But life outside the training center isn't what Ella expected. What she learned in the training center wasn't as helpful as she'd thought and it left a lot to be desired, like reading and swimming. And she keeps hearing about the pet they had before, whom she'd replaced. While at her new home, Ella learns that not everyone agrees that women should be owned and is even kidnapped to be set free. This is one part of the book that many people seemed to have a problem with. When Ella is set free, all she wants to do is get back to the senator's house. But I totally understood why she felt that way. I mean, she'd been raised to believe that that was here place. She didn't realize that she should even want to be everyone else. Anyway, back with her owners, Ella becomes attached to Ruby- the senator's daughter, wards off strange advances from the senator, falls for his son, and meets another pet. But once Ella realizes what is going to happen to her, she knows she's got to do something. But it doesn't go as planned.
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