Summer Reading Project, BookLikes Satellite

The original "girl with all the gifts" was Pandora, who opened a box that released evil, plague, sorrow, and all the other bad things into the world. In M.R. Carey's The Girl with All the Gifts, the eponymous girl is Melanie. Ten year old Melanie has a genius level intelligence. She's conscientious, modeling her behavior on the heroes of the Greek myths her teachers read to her. One might think it's very strange that she's locked in a cell most of the time and that it takes at least two soldiers to secure her to a wheelchair before she goes to her lessons. Everyone who comes in contact with her douses themselves in a chemical deodorant. Even stranger, she only eats once a week...

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