Tabitha is hoping to find the perfect family. She has been raised in an elite foster centre. They help children become the best they can. Tabitha literally has a body to die for. She has great lung capacity and is in tip top shape. Everything but her heart is in perfect condition. The centre gives her pills to help that problem though. Everything is looking promising for her future, and it's her time to be called up.

A dream family may just be too good to be true. The medicals run some tests to check Tabitha is what the centre said she was, and this is where her rescue party turn up. Tabitha doesn't know how lucky she is until they explain the children are used as organ donors.

Her new family may not be the one she was expecting, but they are what she needed. They have discovered the horrible secret of the foster centre, and want to save the children.

This is a romance novel. Gavin the leader of the rescue party is a love interest of Tabitha's. Her best friend, Parker (from the centre) also wants a chance to be her guy, but who will she choose.

Body Parts is an interesting story which is mysterious, action pack and a little disturbing.

4 stars out of 5.

*ARC received in exchange for a fair review*

Tabitha had been orphaned at the age of six and was raised in a Centre that encourages to be in best physical condition to maximize Tabitha’s chances of being adopted No one knows if you turn eighteen what happens to you if you haven’t been adopted. The teen have very little contact with the outside world.They can only watch certain things on t v. . Then at sixteen they tell Tabitha she was finally being adopted but instead of finding a family she wakes up in a hospital. It then shows how Tabitha was actually raised for organ harvesting for the rich and wealthy who had ruined their own organs by overuse of drugs supplied by Pharm Perfect. But the rescue team was at the hospital and Gavin and his crew were breaking out. Tabitha joins Gavin’s group. Mary is eight years old but wasn’t rescued before her cornea had been taken and Sasha had been in isolation for three years until someone needed her uterus. Both girls are part of the team now. Now that Tabitha knows the truth about the centre she is concerned about her old friends, One was her best friend Page and there was eighteen year old Parker who completely loved Tabitha but she doesn’t love him. Gavin has devoted himself to saving kids from the Centre but has a perfectly normal background. Ry is always high and Tabitha makes the mistake of accepting drugs she thought were for her heart condition. Kevin is the one who lets Gavin know what is going on at the hospital.Tabitha doesn’t know who to trust. Tabitha knows Kenny is hiding something. Then Tabitha starts falling for Gavin who seems to like her back but Gavin hangs around with his childhood friend Cherry who is beautiful and Tabitha is jealous. Also what about Parker Tabitha agreed to start dating him if they ever got out of the Centre.Tabitha had agreed to start dating. The teens were also taught self defense incase they ever needed it as there were some weird people out there who would be jealous.
I absolutely loved reading this book. I didn’t like that humans that had been orphaned were grown to be harvested for their organs and lied to all their lives which I don’t think anyone would. This dragged at times and the book went on too much about Tabitha’s jealousy a bit much. I also thought it wasn’t the smartest thing to let Tabitha go on a mission when she had no training and was traumatized by what had already happened to her. There was a lot of action and I liked that. I liked the plot. This was a well written fun read for the most part. I didn’t really want to put this down. This also seemed realistic. I also loved the characters backgrounds that we were given. I loved the characters and the ins and outs and I recommend.

I have to admit, I almost DNF'd...I started to skim...because I thought "This is typical Teen/Ya triangle drama...same old, same old)....

But then....I got sucked in. The story was different. It was exciting, it was dramatic...I was on the edge of my seat by the end. So very glad I stuck with it!

There's a medication you can take to be stronger. Another one to make you smarter. Another to make you more beautiful. Another to make you faster. In fact, there's a medication for anything you want to change about yourself. You can take your pick and you have money to burn so you can take as many different types as you want. You continue taking them all because they work so well. Then you find out your liver is failing and you need a transplant or you'll die. Do you question where your new liver is coming from? Do you brush aside any ethical dilemmas you might stumble across in the process and decide to go ahead with the surgery anyway? After all, your life is on the line.

I'm not quite sure how she did it but Jessica Kapp reeled me in by the end of the first page and had me on her hook until the end of the book. Body Parts provides a very interesting (and quite scary) commentary on both the organ transplant and pharmaceutical industries.

In the beginning of this book we meet a group of children at the Centre who are being trained to be as healthy as possible in order to increase their chances of being placed with a foster family. Each child has lived in hope that their dream of belonging in a real family will come true. We follow Tabitha as she's given the news that a family wants to foster her and when she subsequently learns that nothing at the Centre is as it seems. Who can you trust when everything you've been taught growing up turns out to be lies?

I loved a lot of the characters, especially Mary, but felt like some of the peripheral characters blended into each other a bit. I enjoyed the uncertainty I felt along with Tabitha regarding who she could trust, and liked that some characters had motives that weren't always immediately apparent. Some minor irritations, such as the ending feeling rushed and finding the Insta-love annoying at times, didn't detract from my enjoyment of this book. I found myself wanting to rush through to find out if my suspicions about certain characters were valid and who would be saved from getting slaughtered for spare parts.

I kept thinking as I was reading that a scenario like that described in this book isn't so far fetched that it's not within the realms of possibility. Is it really that much of a leap, when there's already distrust surrounding big drug companies and so many stories about black market organ theft, to believe they could easily merge into one hugely profitable venture?

Partway through this book and with questions like this playing in my head, the X-Phile in me accidentally escaped and thought it would be fun to go all conspiracy theory on me. My favourite outlandish conspiracy theory? What if this book isn't fiction but is actually a memoir and one day far into the future, Jessica Kapp is going to come clean and reveal at long last that this is actually her story, that she is indeed Tabitha... Yeah, I know. I should be banned from watching The X-Files for life and perhaps conspiracy theory me should not be allowed out in polite company, but I love playing with what ifs. They make life much more entertaining. 😜

Yes, I'm still happy to be an organ donor, but not until I've finished using them. Young adults and adults alike will enjoy this book and I'll be looking out for future books by Jessica Kapp. I received an ARC of this book from NetGalley (thank you so much to NetGalley and Diversion Books for the opportunity) in exchange for honest feedback.

Body Parts

by Jessica Kapp

Diversion Books

Diversion Publishing
Mystery & Thrillers , Teens & YA

Pub Date 15 Aug 2017

I am reviewing a copy of Body Parts through Diversion Books and Netgalley:

Tabitha was raised in an elite foster home, off the California Coast, a place where she would be shaped into a world-class athlete. People would literally kill for her body. Tabitha is swimming laps, and shaving seconds off her mile time, in search of a foster family, the rest of the world seems to be taken pills that erase wrinkle, grow hair, and give you super human strength by Pharmeutical giant PharmPerfect.

Outside the training facility Tabitha's health has taken a backseat.

When Tabitha is finally paired, she wakes up immobile in a hospital bed. Moments before she She's cut opened, a group of renegade teenagers rescuer saving her.

I give Body Parts five out of five stars!

Happy Reading!

Rating: 5 Stars

This book was a dystopian lovers dream! It explored so many different aspects of what our future could possibly become.
Everyone in this day and age wants to be faster, stronger, smarter, more beautiful. No one is satisfied just being themselves.

Body Parts is a scary thrill ride that I couldn't decide if I wanted off of it or not.
It takes you down the path of what can happen if we let our vanity get to out of control. What happens when we no longer care about anything but ourselves? Are we willing to do anything to be better versions of ourselves, even if it has a great cost?
I don't think we are prepared to pay it.

I highly recommend this book and I look forward to other books by Kapp.

I really enjoy mysteries that are medicine related, especially ones that deal with possibilities that seem far-fetched but could really happen now or in the near future as medical technology advances. As a former pharmacist, I also hate Big Pharma and love books where they get what's coming to them. This is one of those books. It is not as medically technical as Robin Cook but it has enough technology to be believable. It is the story of Tabitha and her friends at the Center of Excellence on an island off the coast of California. They are all orphans who train endlessly in order to be in top physical condition to hopefully get the ultimate prize of a family. The Center and the island are owned and operated by PharmPerfect, the largest drug company in the world. They have the perfect pill for everything. What could possibly go wrong? Tabitha's day finally comes but instead of meeting her family she wakes up strapped to a table in a hospital. I am not going to ruin the story for the reader but it is full of action and a little romance with enough diabolical characters that you can't be sure who to trust. I would like to thank Netgalley, the author, and the publisher for allowing me to read this book in exchange for a review. I thoroughly enjoyed it and look forward to reading more from this author.

Who wouldn't want to have a family. In this novel Tabitha does everything she possibly can to ensure she's the best candidate for being picked for an adoption. She trains swimming, has regular check ups and never give up hope to find, what so many other kids did before her, a family. Little does she know that the place she lives is not for just for bringing together families, it's to provide potential buyers with new, healthy organs. I enjoyed this story and couldn't put the book down, 'cause I just had to know what would happen next. It's a fast paced story, with omg moments and sure, there is romance too. It was a refreshing story and I wholeheartedly recommend this book to be on your tbr-list. I chose to read this book and all opinions in this review are my own and completely unbiased. Thanks to NetGalley and Diversion Books!

Body Parts by Jessica kapp.
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?
An absolutely fantastic read with brilliant characters. Tab it has was my favourite character. I loved how she wouldn't give up on her friends. 5*. Netgalley and diversion books.

When Tabitha is finally selected by a family for adoption, she is shocked to be kidnapped by an odd assortment of characters. The group tells her that she was raised for her organs and that "adoption" meant she was condemned to die. Her thoughts immediately turn to the kids she left behind in the foster care center and a plan to rescue them quickly forms.

I think that young adults will enjoy this book. However, it felt like the premise was ripped off from The Island. There were so many contradictions and problems with the back story that the whole story came off as amateurish and poorly thought out. For example, if the kids were so worried that they had to hide in a bunker, why did they spend afternoons playing at a waterfall, visiting the town and eating ice-cream at the local store. This book was just a mess.

I was not a fan of this book! I just could not get into it

Body Parts tells the story of Tabitha, 16, who’s been raised in a center that help teens reach physical perfection for them to get fostered. Or so she thinks. The Center is actually a place where a pharmaceutical company raises orphans for their organs to use in transplants.
After Tabitha is saved by a “rebel” group, she wants to help save all the others in the center but she soon realizes she’s more important than she first thought.

The concept of this book was interesting and the characters weren’t too bad either but they all seemed a bit two-dimensional…
The intrigue didn’t captivate me as much as I thought it would, I didn’t find the romance all that interesting either and some tropes seemed a bit too easy….
But all in all, I still had an okay time reading this...

Life is filled with preparation and training for Tabitha and her friends in the elite foster care center where she was raised. In order for a chance at adoption each person is told that they must be in perfect condition. Dreams of the perfect family are traded and built using the clippings from the pictures found in magazines-- everything is imagined down to the color of their future room.

One by one Tabitha has spent her life watching as her friends were taken and tested to see if they were ready or even eligible for adoption until finally it is her turn. But amidst the anticipation for her new life to begin there is a cold drop of fear--and as she steps out of the world that she has known at the center that fear is solidified.

Beginning with her retrieval from the hospital by a secret group working to free those that are being raised and then harvested for their organs. Was she one of those? She had been warned while in the center about people stealing orphans to sell but what if the ones that she trusted for so long really were the ones she should have been leery of?

Life isn't exactly what she thought it would be like outside of the center, the world may not know it yet but the drugs that amplify every part of life are also destroying the bodies of those that consume them. Tabitha is trapped without the ability to prove of her existence to escape the reach of the center but even if she could leave she wouldn't want to without helping her friends back inside.

This was a great book--I want to read anything that might come next. Tabitha, Gavin, Mary... all of them, I want to know what happens next for them!

Interesting idea and had potential but lost me in some of the middle of the story. Too much bad and forth about who she believed was on her side. Also didn't buy the "love" between Tabitha and Gavin...thought it was funny that her and Parker couldn't be "in love" because it was just because they were together at the Center, but then she falls for the guy that rescues her...hmmmm
The whole premiss that no one off the island knows about what PharmPerfect is doing and that only this small group of teens has figured it out was also pretty unbelievable.

This one reminded of one of my favorite movies called The Island it stars Scarlet Johansen and o god I can't even think what his name is. But the movie is about the world where people are harvested for their organs etc. Basically, you can create a clone and use it when you need it. Of course, it goes into you finding out along the way that no one knows that their clones are awake.

Although in that movie there were no renegades I would say that this is The Island for teens. I really loved how the book played out and parts of it even reminded me of The Maze Runner series. I really loved all the characters and the book was well paced. The ending was a little meh but I would love a part two to this one. Come to think of it this one also reminded me of another book called The Body Institute by Carol Riggs. So if you want something about how kids are having their bodies taken and how they get out of that situation to save others then check this one out. It was well written and I couldn't put it down.

Blog review to follow.

This book is fast paced and full of action, suspense, and romance which is all right up my alley. It was truly an enjoyable read.

Thank you to NetGalley for my copy of this novel.

I love a good mystery! Twists and turns are important! I love getting to the end and being stunned!

The ending of this book shocked me. Not because of the actual ending (though that was great) but because it was over. I wanted to live in this world a little while longer...maybe a long while longer. I hope there's a follow up book to this.

The cover caught my eye and attention, then the blurb pulled me in even further and made it a "must read".
The cover shows a young girl with long red hair that is twisted up off of her neck to reveal what looks like a barcode! So that had my mind curious as to what it really was for etc. The background is also kind of like a barcode in shades of blue, or could the blue represent the curtains in either the centre Tabitha lives in or the hospital she visits. Either one really fits in with the book. The cover certainly did its job making me stop scrolling and read the blurb!

This book is set in a dystopian/futuristic era on an island mostly owned by a pharmaceutical company called PharmPerfect. In this world there there is a pill for almost everything. If you want to reduce your wrinkles, grow your hair, gain extra speed or strength, all you need to do is swallow the correct pill. Sounds perfect? Well not really, as like all medications you take in our present day, the drugs produced on the island have side effects that can put certain organs under stress, for example liver,kidneys, heart and lungs. So organ replacement is a booming business. Some people buy donor organs in advance and have them specially stored for them just in case they should need them. Those that can afford the pills, and have the funds readily available just purchase them never giving a thought to where they come from.

We meet the main character Tabitha during a training session at the Centre Of Excellence.
Tabitha is almost seventeen years old and all she can really remember are the two institutions she has been in. The Centre Of Excellence has teenagers continually training to be stronger and fitter in order to be chosen by a foster family. No one knows what happenes if you don't get fostered and reach the age of 18, it's just not talked about. In fact the teenagers have minimal contact with the outside world. They are only allowed to watch certain TV programmes deemed suitable by the Institute. Naturally the teens dream about the day they will be chosen by a family. In fact, they regularly talk about the type of family they'd like to have. Inside the institute the only family they have is each other. The Institute teaches the young adults to be disciplined and to have drive. The Institute motto that is written on the wall says "It's whats on the inside that counts".
The day we meet Tabitha she and her friend Paige are being monitored for how long they can hold their breath under water to test their lung capacity. Tabitha wins! The girls then sit at the side of the pool talking with Parker, and with Paige's twin Meghan. All the teens are instructed in ways to make sure they are both mentally and physically fit. The young adults are also taught self defense in case they should ever need it. As they have been taught that there are some weird people who would be jealous of their good health and kidnap them to sell on their organs on the black market!

That's when Ms Preen marches in with her red folder! The red folder means someone has been chosen! They all line up for Ms Preen as they are expected to, as she glances at the paperwork. Parker slips his arm around Tabitha, he really looks out for her and is one of her closest friends in the Institute. Then without even looking straight up Ms Preen mutters "Where is the red head?" Paige is immediately irked that Ms Preen does not ask for Tabitha using her name. So much so she actually spells out Tabitha's name.
Parker squeezes Tabitha then she steps forward. There are thoughts rapidly rushing through her head. Is it really her turn? What will her new parents be like? Then she looks at her friends....her family, she can see they are both excited and disappointed. Excited for her being chosen, but disappointed it isn't them too. Tabitha has to go through a final screening to make sure she passes all the tests at 100%. Then all too quickly for Tabitha, Parker, Paige and Meghan etc it's time for them to say goodbye. The teens left behind get Tabitha to promise to visit them, which like all the other before her she agrees to. Tabitha fully intends to be the one that keeps that promise to visit her friends.

When Tabitha is in the car, Ms Preen gives her a candy which is unusual as it's very rare for Ms Preen to even be civil to them let alone kind. Tabitha takes the candy anyway. . . she begins to feel drowsy. . then everything goes black. When she awakens, Tabitha finds herself tied to a hospital examination table. Naturally she can't remember exactly how she got here, she remembers passing the receptionist at the Centre Of Excellence as she left with Ms Preen. Then there was the car journey, Ms Preen being kind, then. . .nothing until now. As Tabitha looks around two young males enter the room in a rush. They move her from the room into a van, though she can see and hear all that is happening she still hasn't got her mobility back yet. All she can do is lie where she is put, feeling scared and wondering who these adolescent males are. . . . could they be the ones the trainer once told them about? Are these people kidnapping her right now for her organs, to sell them on the black market? Tabitha begins to plan, there's no way what so ever she is going down without a fight. When the van finally stops and the back doors are open she takes her chance and hits the male that approaches her fast and hard in the nose!

So there's lots happening in this book from the first page to the very last. I truly loved it. Among my favourite characters were Tabitha, Gavin, and Mary. I enjoyed reading the interactions between Mary and the other 'renegades'. The way they can be arguing with each other, or having the worst day ever and one hug from Mary just fixes those emotional feelings. I really liked Ry, even though he insists on popping the pills himself when he knows what can happen through first hand experience with his own mother. One character with a smaller part in the book was Craig, who had been a pill popper but had ended up needing a liver, which his family paid for. At the time Craig had been oblivious to the possibilities of where and how his liver had been obtained. I also liked the bristly hairstyled and initially bristly attitude of Sasha, she is kind of like the big sister of the group and the first one the gang has had saved. Although I loved a lot of the characters I also loved hating the 'bad' characters, such as the haughty Ms Preen who thinks so little of the teens at the Centre of Excellence she doesn't even say their names. I also enjoyed hating the CEO of PharmPerfect, you'll know who I mean, and understand why when you read the book.

The book is well written, and has a fairly fast pace. The only problem I had with the book was I honestly didn't want to put it down! This book made me think of another book I have read called The Body Institute by Carol Riggs, so if you like this book I think you'd like that one too. They both have a similar society, that just takes the quick fix, rather than looking at the lifestyle they are leading first. I admit I did guess what the medication was that Tabitha had been taking for her heart condition, but it didn't spoil my enjoyment of the book in any way. I want to talk about the book and its characters so much more but to do so would spoil things for you reading it, so I guess I've said all I can. The other thing I'll say about this book is that it is eerily realistic, in that it's not too much of a stretch of the imagination to think this could actually happen in our world. In fact who is to say some of it, ie selling organs doesn't already happen now?

My immediate thoughts upon finishing the book were; Loved it! Loved it!Loved it! I'd love for it to be the start of a series? Loved most of the characters and loved hating the others too! It does make you think where our present world is going as well as how drugs are tested. The subject is something you really don't need that much of an imagination to believe that it could happen in the present or near future even.
I definitely want to read more by this author! I've checked Goodreads but there is only this book listed, but I'm following the author so I'll know when she releases other books.