Birthmarked

2010 O’Brien, Caragh M. Birthmarked. New York: Roaring Brook Press. MnU, PSt

A young adult dystopia depicting a world inside and outside a walled Enclave that demands children from those outside. In the middle volume, Prized: The Second Book in the Birthmarked Trilogy. New York: Roaring Brook Press, 2011, the heroine escapes from the Enclave only to be captured by a dystopian society called Sylum that is dominated by women and that has outlawed love. In the final volume, Promised: The Third Book in the Birthmarked Trilogy. New York: Roaring Brook Press, 2012, the heroine, having helped free the people of the Sylum, returns with them to the Enclave and brings about its reform.  A story set between the first two volumes is “Tortured.” http://www.tor.com/2011/12/08/tortured/. Rpt. in Fierce Reads Presents Kisses and Curses. Ed. Lauren Burniac (New York: Square Fish, 2012), 251-73. Female author.