Review: a dumb smart girl or was it a lot of confusion
Rating: 4 out of 5
Date: 04 25, 2013
Amoreena's mom is dying of cervical cancer, so of course, her mom let her medical coverage lapse.  Seemingly, her mom did this because she had $4000 in the bank, which she wanted to give to Amoreena for her education.  Ok, I am going to snark away on this for a moment.  Will $4000 even last 3 months?  Even with that partial scholarship, this is a drop in the educational bucket (hear the hollow ting?).  Surely, her mom has some concept that this was meaningless as opposed to her daughter's obvious devotion to her.  Look, I gave up any chance to live, so you could have my $4000.  It would be a smack in the face.So Amoreena becomes a surrogate to help pay her mom's medical bills.  She is immediately confronted with evidence that something is wrong, twice prior to insemination.  She gets a strange letter in Spanish, can we say online translation.  She runs into a lucid, smart guy with a drug problem that tells her that something is wrong with the babies, and they murdered his girlfriend.  She sees evidence from the strange tests.  She receives sonograms from a doctor at the clinic and a verbal warning from him.  Yet, she has not ran to the police.  She has not ran to the nearest abortion clinic.  She was pretty much stupid and lethargic through the whole thing.  She confronted when time was of the essence.  She was annoying.And I was baffled to learn they did not use her genetic material.  Why not use someone who had no knowledge or was homeless instead of her?So why did I give it a 4?  I actually waffled between a 3 and a 4, but the writing was good.  The story was interesting.  And BIG kudos to the writer for giving us a complete story.  This was a trilogy, but for once, a writer got it correct and gave us a full story with an actual ending.Despite my dislike of the main character, I still recommend this story.