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6A young adult sci-fi trilogy by Robin Wasserman. Lia Kahn was perfect: rich, beautiful, popular. Until the accident that nearly killed her. Now she has been downloaded into a new body that only looks human. Lia will never feel pain again, she will never age, and she can't ever truly die. Her brain will simply be re-uploaded into another body. Her friends and family desert her and she gets stares wherever she goes. Some strict Christians even believe she does not deserve to exist.
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8In ''Crashed'', Lia no longer lives in before. Six months after the crash that killed her, six months after being reborn, Lia has finally accepted her new reality. She is a machine, a "mech", and she belongs with her own kind. It's a wild, carefree life, without rules and without fear, because there's nothing to fear when you can't die. The strict "Faithers", and their ex-leader, Rai Savona, are pushing for laws to declare mechs as property. Meanwhile, her friend Jude wants to kill the "orgs", or people. Lia gets caught up in the cause, but as plans become more and more dangerous she begins to have second thoughts. How far can she follow Jude? Is she willing to allow him to go as far as he wants to go? Is she willing to end lives whether they be Mech or Org, to protect her own life? What will she do for the ones she loves? In the end, Lia must choose where her loyalties lie.
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10!!These books provide examples of:
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12* AndIMustScream: At one point in the first book, Lia suffers from a "temporary disconnect between [her] body and neural network." This means that her body is completely immobilized while she's fully conscious. She then watches helplessly while several of her classmates poke at her, a couple guys look down her shirt, and one boy draws on her face. Fortunately, Auden carts her off to the school nurse's office so she can get help.
13* AfterTheEnd: Some sort of nuclear disaster wiped out most cities on the eastern seaboard of the United States. The Middle East took heavy damage as well, Mecca and Jerusalem are specifically mentioned as destroyed. It's implied, that the series of events that led to a WorldWarThree, where nuclear and biological WMD's were used, began with several acts of nuclear terrorism. The nuclear devastation of the Middle East led to a decline of religion.
14** Italy was rendered "toxic" by unspecified events, presumably by religiously motivated terrorist acts.
15%%* AllOfTheOtherReindeer: The mechs.
16* AscendToAHigherPlaneOfExistence: The series ends with [[spoiler: Lia merging her mind with the network. Given that the internet plays a role in almost every single aspect of human existence in her world, becoming one with the network renders her omnipresent and essentially omnipotent. First order of business? Reshaping the world as she sees fit.]]
17* BeliefMakesYouStupid: Lia's opinion of the Faithers.
18%%* BigFancyHouse: The house Quinn inherited.
19* BodyBackupDrive: Every night, the mechs have to manually upload the events of that day to a backup hard drive held by the organization that built the mechs, which is then uploaded to a new body should something happen. Note that this is only for mechs who live a conventional life; those off the grid have no means of saving a backup.
20%%* BrainUploading: the mechs
21%%* ChurchMilitant: Rai Savona and the Faithers
22* CrisisOfFaith: After, among other things, the Middle East went to hell in a nuclear handbasket (Mecca and Jerusalem were specifically mentioned as destroyed) and Italy became "toxic", religion fell out of fashion, mostly.
23%%* CocaPepsiInc: Chindia
24* DrinkingOnDuty: The president is in rehab, because she's on drugs. The first mentioning of the president in the book was of her going AWOL from rehab.
25%%* {{Dystopia}}
26* EveryoneHasStandards: Zoie after her {{Jerkass}} behavior [[spoiler:warns Lia in ''Crashed'' that the Brotherhood is trying to kill the mechs they've taken hostage. She also sets aside her resentment towards the mech on seeing that Lia's parents are broken up on their oldest daughter having left.]]
27* FaceHeelTurn: [[spoiler: In the second book, Auden and later Ani join the Brotherhood of Faithers.]]
28* TheGloriousWarOfSisterlyRivalry: Exaggerated with how Zoie after Lia's accident usurps her sister's social position. She steals Lia's boyfriend for one, and becomes popular with her. She also doesn't think that the mech is really her sister. [[spoiler:They manage to form a truce by the end of the second book, due to Lia's dad bargaining for his daughter to return home.]]
29* JustAMachine: what many people believe of the mechs.
30* TheNeedless: The mechs are unable to eat, sleep, or breathe, have bodies that are self-healing and cleaning, and are unable to die. Of course, many of them think of it as {{Blessed with Suck}}.
31* NeuralImplanting: In ''Crashed'', Jude uses a connection to Biotech (the company that made them) to make various modifications for the mechs.
32* NeverMyFault: Zoie was indirectly responsible for her sister getting killed, and her parents overruled any wishes that Zoe or Lia may have had by recreating Lia as a mech. She proceeds to have stolen Lia's social life, boyfriend and popoularity status, all the while treating the mech like an unwanted guest. Lia calls her out for this, saying that if Lia hadn't been nice to her the day of the car crash, Zoie would have been the one killed.
33* NoGoodDeedGoesUnpunished: The accident happens the one day that Lia is covering for her sister's volunteering hours. She and Zoie are very aware of this.
34%%* PluckyGirl: Lia
35* RaceLift: in-universe example: Most of the main mech characters, including Jude, Riley and Ani, were placed in a white body because those (designed for rich white clientele) were the only ones available.
36%%* RichBitch: Lia pre-accident.
37* RuinsOfTheModernAge: What is in the WretchedHive.
38%%* SinisterMinister: Rai Savona
39%%* TwentyMinutesIntoTheFuture
40* UncannyValley: Mechs are shunned because they look too perfect.
41%%* TheUnfavorite: Zoie.
42* UnnamedParent: Lia's Father's given name is never revealed in the series. He's only ever referred to by Lia (and Zoie) as "my father" or "Dad," and by other characters as "M[r]. Kahn." Lia's mother's first name is only mentioned once early on in the first book; otherwise she's "my mother," "Mom," or "M[rs]. Kahn."
43* UnusualUserInterface: The mechs can log on to their "zones" using their eyes.
44%%* WhatMeasureIsANonSuper
45* WhyCouldntYouBeDifferent: What Lia's parents think of her post-accident. It's even worse since Lia didn't want to be recreated via mech, meaning her parents took the choice out of her hands.
46%%* WretchedHive: Most cities.
47* YouShouldHaveDiedInstead: Near the end of the first book Lia shouts at Zoie that Zoie was supposed to be the one in the car crash. Lia knows this isn't fair, but she hits her RageBreakingPoint at how she didn't want to be brought back as a "mech", all because she was covering for her sister.

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