History Literature / Skinned

%%* AnythingThatMoves: Quinn.

* TheGloriousWarOfSisterlyRivalry: Taken UpToEleven 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.]]

* AdultFear:
** Lia's parents make the choice to recreate Lia's consciousness as artificial intelligence in a mech. They're not that comfortable with the decision, especially since it means she will be immortal, perfect, and ostracized. [[spoiler:The reason why Lia runs away at the end of the first book is that she hears her father debating with himself about if he made the right choice.]]
** Zoie in the meantime deals with her SurvivorsGuilt by stealing Lia's boyfriend and social status, while treating the mech replacement like a stranger. It was her fault that Lia was in the fatal car accident in the first place, but Zoie never acknowledges it in the first two books. [[spoiler:Then after Lia runs away, Zoie starts attending the Brotherhood meetings. The nicest thing she does is warn Lia that the Brotherhood is trying to figure out how to kill the mechs, since even she doesn't think they should go that far.]]

%%* YouGottaHaveBlueHair: Ani

** Lia's parents make the choice to recreate Lia's consciousness as an artificial intelligence in a mech. They're not that comfortable with the decision, especially since it means she will be immortal, perfect, and ostracized. [[spoiler:The reason why Lia runs away at the end of the first book is because she hears her father debating with himself about if he made the right choice.]]
** Zoie in the meantime deals with her SurvivorsGuilt by stealing Lia's boyfriend and social status, while treating the mech replacement . It was her fault that Lia was in the fatal car accident in the first place, but Zoie never acknowledges it in the first two books. [[spoiler:Then after Lia runs away, Zoie starts attending the Brotherhood meetings. The nicest thing she does is warn Lia that the Brotherhood is trying to figure out how to kill the mechs, since even she doesn't think they should go that far.]]

* 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 becane "toxic", religion fell out of fashion, mostly.

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* RaceLift: in-universe example: Many of the non-white mechs were placed in a white body because those were the only ones available.

* TheGloriousWarOfSisterRivalry: Taken UpToEleven 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.]]

** Zoie in the meantime deals with her SurvivalsGuilt by stealing Lia's boyfriend and social status, while treating the mech replacement . It was her fault that Lia was in the fatal car accident in the first place, but Zoie never acknowledges it in the first two books. [[spoiler:Then after Lia runs away, Zoie starts attending the Brotherhood meetings. The nicest thing she does is warn Lia that the Brotherhood is trying to figure out how to kill the mechs, since even she doesn't think they should go that far.]]

* WhyCouldntYouBeDifferent: What Lia's parents think of her post-accident.

* [[WhatMeasureIsANonSuper What Measure Is An Org?]]

* AnythingThatMoves: Quinn.
* AllOfTheOtherReindeer: The mechs.

* BigFancyHouse: The house Quinn inherited.

* BrainUploading: the mechs
* ChurchMilitant: Rai Savona and the Faithers

* CocaPepsiInc: Chindia

* {{Dystopia}}

* PluckyGirl: Lia

* RichBitch: Lia pre-accident.

* SinisterMinister: Rai Savona
* TwentyMinutesIntoTheFuture
* TheUnfavorite: Zoie.

* WretchedHive: Most cities.
* YouGottaHaveBlueHair: Ani
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A 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 reuploaded 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.

* UncannyValley: Mechs are shunned because they look too perfect.

* DrinkingOnDuty: The president is in rehab, because he's on drugs. The first mentioning of the president in the book was of him going AWOL from his rehab.

* 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 a number of act of nuclear terrorism. The nuclear devastation of the Middle East led to a decline of religion.

* CrisisOfFaith: After, among other things, the Middle East went to hell in a nuclear handbasket (Mecca and Jerusalem were specifically mentioned as destroyed), religion fell out of fashion, mostly.

* 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.
* 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 a number of act of nuclear terrorism. The nuclear devastation of the Middle East led to a decline of religion.
* AnythingThatMoves - Quinn.
* AllOfTheOtherReindeer- The mechs.
* 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.]]
* BeliefMakesYouStupid- Lia's opinion of the Faithers.
* BigFancyHouse - The house Quinn inherited.

* BrainUploading- the mechs
* ChurchMilitant- Rai Savona and the Faithers

* CocaPepsiInc- Chindia

* FaceHeelTurn- [[spoiler: In the second book, Auden and later Ani join the Brotherhood of Faithers.]]
* JustAMachine- what many people believe of the mechs.

* NeuralImplanting- In ''Crashed'', Jude uses a connection to Biotech (the company that made them) to make various modifications for the mechs.
* PluckyGirl- Lia
* RaceLift- in-universe example: Many of the non-white mechs were placed in a white body because those were the only ones available.
* RichBitch- Lia pre-accident.
* RuinsOfTheModernAge- What is in the WretchedHive.
* SinisterMinister- Rai Savona

* TheUnfavorite - Zoie.
* 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."
* UnusualUserInterface- The mechs can log on to their "zones" using their eyes.

* WhyCouldntYouBeDifferent- What Lia's parents think of her post-accident.
* WretchedHive- Most cities.
* YouGottaHaveBlueHair - Ani

* 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, they think of it as {{Blessed with Suck}}.

* 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 a number of act of nuclear terrorism. The devastation of the Middle East led to a decline of religion.

* CrisisOfFaith: After, among other things, the Middle East went to hell in a handbasket (Mecca and Jerusalem were specifically mentioned as destroyed), religion fell out of fashion, mostly.

* NeuralImplanting- In ''Crashed'', Jude uses a connection to Biotech(the company that made them) to make various modifications for the mechs.

* AfterTheEnd- Some sort of nuclear disaster wiped out most cities on the eastern seaboard of the United States.