She couldn't see beyond her perfect bubble of a life until she was uninvited. Ordinary young adults.ĭavy was everything any girl would of wanted. What didn't break them? Their needs for one another, the attraction, the opposite of what labeled them. What brought them even closer was the hated society, the Cage, the camp. What made them even more similar was their tattoo which labeled them as killers. Both so different so opposite but what brought them together was their DNA, the kill gene. Ages 13 up.ĭavy had everything going for her. Are those diagnosed with the HTS gene really destined to kill, or is their behavior the outcome of being treated like criminals? The first half is slow, as Davy feels the impact that the HTS label has on her privileged life, but the action becomes more immediate when Davy, Sean, and Gil are recruited for an elite government school designed to exploit their violent instincts. Jordan skillfully hints at a rapidly disintegrating, near-future America, using chilling chapter interstitials texts, fragments of interviews, lists that illustrate a society prepared to sacrifice civil rights for an illusion of safety. Among them are the sweet, smart Gil, and Sean, a lifetime 'carrier' who's more protective than violent. She is 'uninvited' from her private high school, assigned an unsympathetic caseworker, and forced to attend school in a 'Cage' with other HTS kids.

Merging a contemporary setting with a believable speculative premise, Jordan (the Firelight series) introduces Davy Hamilton, who appears to have it all a gorgeous boyfriend, a future at Julliard until she is diagnosed with 'Homicidal Tendency Syndrome,' a genetic predisposition toward violence.

Uninvited by sophie jordan