Sinless

With shades of Scott Westerfelds Uglies and Ally Condies Matched, this cinematic dystopian novelthe first in the thrilling Eye of the Beholder seriesis set in a near future society in which "e;right"e; and "e;wrong"e; are manifested by beauty and ugliness.In Grace Luthers world, morality is physically enforced. Those who are "e;good"e; are blessed with beauty, while those who are not suffer horrifying consequencesdisfigurement or even death. The daughter of a cleric, Grace has always had faith in the higher power that governs her world. But when she stumbles onto information that leaves her questioning whether there are more complicatedand dangerousforces manipulating the people around her, she finds herself at the center of an epic battle, where good and evil are not easily distinguished. Despite all her efforts to live a normal teenage life, Grace is faced with a series of decisions that will risk the lives of everyone she lovesand, ultimately, her own. With each page in this electrifying debut novel, Sarah Tarkoff masterfully plunges us into a nightmarish vision of the future. Full of high drama and pulsating tension, Sinless explores the essential questions teenagers wrestle with every dayWhat is beauty? What is faith? Do we take our surroundings at face value and accept all that we have been taught, or do we question the mores of the society into which we are born?and places them in the context of a dark, dystopian world where appearances are most definitely deceiving.