Waiting on Wednesday: Bumped by @MeganMcCafferty

Waiting on Wednesdays is hosted by Jill at Breaking the Spine. In Waiting on Wednesdays, you are supposed to list and discuss a book you are waiting on that hasn’t been published yet (or maybe a book you are waiting for in the mail).

Title: Bumped Author: Megan McCafferty (@MeganMcCafferty) Pages: 336 ISBN: 9780061962745

Synopsis:

When a virus makes everyone over the age of eighteen infertile, would-be parents pay teen girls to conceive and give birth to their children, making teens the most prized members of society. Girls sport fake baby bumps and the school cafeteria stocks folic-acid-infused food.

Sixteen-year-old identical twins Melody and Harmony were separated at birth and have never met until the day Harmony shows up on Melody’s doorstep. Up to now, the twins have followed completely opposite paths. Melody has scored an enviable conception contract with a couple called the Jaydens. While they are searching for the perfect partner for Melody to bump with, she is fighting her attraction to her best friend, Zen, who is way too short for the job.

Harmony has spent her whole life in Goodside, a religious community, preparing to be a wife and mother. She believes her calling is to convince Melody that pregging for profit is a sin. But Harmony has secrets of her own that she is running from.

When Melody is finally matched with the world-famous, genetically flawless Jondoe, both girls’ lives are changed forever. A case of mistaken identity takes them on a journey neither could have ever imagined, one that makes Melody and Harmony realize they have so much more than just DNA in common.

From New York Times bestselling author Megan McCafferty comes a strikingly original look at friendship, love, and sisterhood—in a future that is eerily believable.

Release Date: April 26, 2011

Discussion:

I tried scoring an ARC on GoodReads to no avail. Doesn’t GoodReads understand my devout dedication to Dystopian literature?! This novel sounds pretty awesome; a land riddled by infertility after a certain age and teenagers profiting off giving birth. Can you imagine if humanity was dependent on adolescents to be the only ones to have babies?

On top of that, I am interested to see just how fundamentalist Harmony is and how it will affect her relationship with the twin sister she has never known. I can’t wait until I can read this book!