Thursday, September 7, 2017

Blog Tour + Review + #Giveaway: Body Parts by Jessica Kapp @JessKapp @chapterxchapter


Body Parts by Jessica Kapp
Publication Date: August 15, 2017
Publisher: Diversion Publishing


People would kill for her body.

Raised in an elite foster center off the California coast, sixteen-year-old Tabitha’s been sculpted into a world-class athlete. Her trainers have told her she’ll need to be in top physical condition to be matched with a loving family, even though personal health has taken a backseat outside the training facility. While Tabitha swims laps and shaves seconds off her mile time, hoping to find a permanent home, the rest of the community takes pills produced by pharmaceutical giant PharmPerfect to erase their wrinkles, grow hair, and develop superhuman strength.

When Tabitha’s finally paired, instead of being taken to meet her new parents, she wakes up immobile on a hospital bed. Moments before she’s sliced open, a group of renegade teenagers rescues her, and she learns the real reason for her perfect health: PharmPerfect is using her foster program as a replacement factory for their pill-addicted clients’ failing organs. And her friends from the center, the only family she’s ever known, are next in line to be harvested.

Determined to save them, Tabitha joins forces with her rescuers, led by moody and mysterious Gavin Stiles. As they race to infiltrate the hospital and uncover the rest of PharmPerfect’s secrets, though, Tabitha finds herself with more questions than answers. Will trusting the enigmatic group of rebels lead her back to the slaughterhouse?



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Excerpt:

The exit door buzzes. My breath catches when I notice it’s not a trainer—it’s Ms. Preen. And, she’s holding a red file, which can only mean one thing.
One of us is getting out.
Her heels make quick, light clicks as she crosses the floor past the weight equipment and yoga mats. She crinkles her nose as she moves through the thick cloud of sweat. By the time she reaches us, Meghan’s out of the pool. We stand, two-dozen bodies huddled together, anxious to hear the news. I scan my friends’ faces, wondering whose turn it is to go. Parker wraps his free arm around me. I imagine this is how a gymnast feels after a routine, waiting for her scores. Did I perform well enough? Could I have done more?
Will I win the ultimate prize: a family?
Ms. Preen presses through to the pool area, but stands far from our group, as if she thinks we’ll throw her in.
It’s crossed our minds before.
The light shines off her blonde bob, and her face is flawless. Freeze-dried, we like to say.
“Where is she?” Ms. Preen looks at our group as if she can’t tell us apart, which is probably true. Even though she pops in at least once a month to check on our vitals, she isn’t interested in getting to know us. She’s the one in charge of pairing us with families, but all she knows is what we’re good at. Meghan is the fast one; Paige climbs like she’s part monkey; Parker’s built like a brick house; and me, I have the lungs.
“The redhead, where is she?”
All eyes turn to me.
“We have names, you know,” Paige says, her voice curt. “Hers is Tabitha. T-A-B…”
Ms. Preen pulls a piece of paper out of the file, holding it up toward the row of skylights to read it. “Yes. She’s the one.”
Parker tightens his hold on me and I clasp my hands together to stop them from shaking. Ms. Preen doesn’t need to know I’m nervous. I’m supposed to be elated, ready to go. Maybe I’ve been fooling myself.
I wiggle out of Parker’s grip to step forward. “That’s me.”
Ms. Preen shoves the paper back into the file. “Get dressed. I’m taking you for your final screening. If you pass, you’ll be out tomorrow.” Her voice is hard and she turns to walk away.
I glance back at the group, at the faces I’ve known since childhood. They’re excited for me, but I can see the disappointment in their eyes. I know the look, because up until today I’ve watched friends leave, waiting for my turn.
Now that it is, I can’t move.






My Review:

A giant pharmaceutical company PharmPerfect has a pill for everything. For instance “Are you fatigued?” Take a pill. “Do you have wrinkles?” Take a pill. “Do you want to be stronger and faster than all your friends?” Take a pill. Well I guess you get want I mean, right?

PharmPerfect likes getting people hooked on drugs. When everyone is hooked on drugs they make more money right? There is this one problem though drugs destroy organs. But that is not a problem for PharmPerfect. Oh no. Why? Well because they have this other little program where they sell organs to people. Selling drugs and selling organs is just a continuous money making circle for PharmPerfect.

The question is “How do they manage to get their hands on a continuous supply of organs?” Well there are numerous ways but one of the ways is have an institution for kids that is like an orphanage where you raise them to be healthy by eating the right foods and teaching them how to fight and keep them on a rigorously training program that will keep them in great physical shape.

But what do you tell the kids that live at the institution? Well you tell them that they are being trained so they can be matched to family that will hopefully want to adopt them one day.

When it is sixteen year old Tabitha’s turn to be adopted she is overwhelmed with joy. But later after waking up in a hospital and not being able to move she wonders what is going on and where is her new family. When she is rescued by a group of teenagers she soon learns that she was never going to be adopted. Her new friends explain to her that she was only being raised for her organs.

Tabitha is so very thankful that they have saved her but she is worried about all of her other friends at the institute and wants to rescue them too. She will let nothing or no one stand her way of saving her friends and stop PharmPerfect from harming anyone else if it takes the rest of her life or it means her life.

When I read the summary for Body Parts I knew I had to read it. I knew that it would be something that I would enjoy tremendously and I did. I loved the whole concept of the story itself which is not so farfetched from the world we live in today with the pharmaceutical companies are making money off of selling drugs or medicine just so they can get rich off of people. Who to say that there is not someone out there today in our world that is harvesting organs. There are a lot of children and adults that go missing every day. People are murdered every day and the bodies are never found.

Body Parts is a great amazing phenomenal book one I know will stay with me for a long time if not forever. I hope anyone who reads it that it will open there eyes up to what may be going on in our world today or if not that it could actually happen.

I loved all the characters or most of them anyways like Tabitha, Gavin, Ry, Mary and Parker. The world building for Body Parts was fantastic. I would recommend Body Parts to anyone who loves a good story.



AUTHOR INFO:


Jessica Kapp enjoys writing Young Adult Contemporary and Speculative Fiction. Story ideas often strike at inopportune times, and she’s been known to text herself reminders from under the covers.

She lives on a small farm in Washington with far too many goats and an occasional cow.




Giveaway:

·         $10 Amazon Gift Card and an autographed bookmark (INT)



 

1 comments:

Terri. said...

This sounds like an amazing read!