Warning, this story contains g//e (o,r), d**t* (e,a,h,) a little bit of sw****g (e,a,r,i,n), and disturbing images, etc. Not recommended for people with these triggers. I will most likely not put trigger warnings, because it spoils the plot. You were warned.
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Projects. That was all they ever were to them, all they ever would be. Perhaps even numbers as well... that is what it felt like to Skye, or as they called her, X - 160. She had waken up there, with no memories, no explanation of her past. However, when she is left alone in her room, she soon discovers she has the choice to live a normal life if she kills everyone else, the other projects, or stay here for the rest of her life, for who knows how long... but is that really the best choice? Should she really do their bidding, be the good little experiment she was meant to be?
Sixteen-year-old Sage Greene was locked in a maximum-security asylum for the criminally insane after murdering nearly 200 civilians. It isn't her, though - it's the voices. There are two sides to Sage: the normal, self-conscious teenager, and the Voice lurking inside her head, the one that forced her to strike out and kill.
Now, both parts of Sage are being sent into space, destined for a new rehabilitation program upon Mars, with a group of the most dangerous teenagers in America. Before they can reach the red planet, however, they are abducted by a strange alien race and taken away from their spaceship and everything they have ever known to compete in a sadistic set of physical and mental tests nicknamed the Trials.
And so far, nobody has survived the Trials.
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{Highest ranking: #5 in science fiction as of 9/3/17}
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WARNING
This is a very dark book that only spirals further down. Murder is discussed and there are slightly graphic scenes.