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In a world in which food is gone and corporate-controlled science has eliminated its necessity, ultra-privileged Thalia begins to feel hunger, sparking a journey that ends in revolution. Thalia's cluelessness and repeated endangerment of her friends are hard to swallow, weakening the story's romance, but the world she inhabits is fascinating and well developed, with a have-versus-have-not conflict that will engage readers.