Grace is just a normal teenager living her life, only
uncertain about the bar code tattoo she, like every other
teenager on their seventeenth birthday, is supposed to get.
The more she hears about it, the more uncertain she becomes,
especially when she talks to Eric. Suddenly, she finds
herself in the middle of something bigger than she ever
imagined.
I am a big fan of some of the author, Suzanne Weyn's, works,
but THE BAR CODE PROPHECY doesn't work as well with me as
the other books of hers that are set in the same world. This
is a short, quick read, and it is full of some solid action,
but the characters and plot line didn't stick with me as
well
as they could have. Grace has some great qualities: she's
moderately intelligent, and she is likable. However, her and
the other characters all feel two-dimensional. I feel like I
was waiting for a real connection to come up towards them,
but it didn't happen.
While there is no shortage of action in this book, and
action done very well, it has room for more depth plot wise.
It feels like a lot of action is happening without enough
detail about how it is changing the plot, effecting the
characters, etc. I love the idea behind the plot. The
dystopian world THE BAR CODE PROPHECY is set in is actually
deep and vastly interesting, but I feel the plot sort of
just skimmed over it when it could have explored a lot more.
If you have read the other Bar Code Tattoo works and liked
them, then I would say to give this a try. However, in the
end, I was sadly not excited about it. If some of its good
points had been expanded, I think this would have been a
much more enjoyable read.
Grace lives a normal life. She goes to school during the day
and works part-time at the multinational corporation
Global-1. She has a crush on a boy named Eric and wonders if
he feels the same way. And when she turns seventeen, she's
going to get a bar code tattoo.
Her world seems very peaceful and predictable.
But then it explodes.
As soon as Grace gets the bar code tattoo, she comes home to
find her family gone and Global-1 police swarming all over
the place. In a split second, her life changes. Now she's on
the run, part of a dark conspiracy and an extraordinary
prophecy that will change the world forever.
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