Lia Kahn är huvudpersonen i Skinned av Robin Wasserman.
The Download was supposed to change the world. It was supposed to mean the end of aging, the end of death, the birth of a new humanity. But it wasn't supposed to happen to someone like Lia Kahn.
And it wasn't supposed to ruin her life.
Lia knows she should be grateful she didn't die in the accident. The Download saved her--but it also changed her, forever. She can deal with being a freak. She can deal with the fear in her parents' eyes and the way her boyfriend flinches at her touch. But she can't deal with what she knows, deep down, every time she forces herself to look in the mirror: She's not the same person she used to be.
Maybe she's not even a person at all.
Hennes nerdiga vän som hoppar från en stor höjd men som inte kan få operationen heter Auden enligt beskrivningen på Wikipedia:
Auden - A social outcast, Auden is not a "designer baby" like the rest of his peers, because his mother didn't believe in "playing God." Due to a family history of mental illness, he is not eligible for download after jumping off a waterfall in an attempt to 'save' Lia (he forgot that she is nearly indestructible) leaves him gravely injured.
Banden ledaren är förmodligen Jude.
Jude - A "mech" painted silver, with clear skin showing circuitry on his arm, Jude thinks Lia needs to let go of her "org" (organic) life and fully embrace the mechanical lifestyle. He was one of the first mech experiments, and is the ringleader of the group that lives at Quinn's.
Sökningen som tog mig dit (om än inte den första uppsättningen termer jag hade anslutit) var bokflicka har sin hjärna lagt i en robot .