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Davina leads a charmed life until she tests positive for the Homicidal Tendency Gene. In her new cage-like classroom, Davy meets fellow carrier and bad boy Sean. Both tapped to attend the government-managed school, the seeming opposites must figure out how to survive abuse and discrimination--among potential killers. Predictable tropes partly dilute this fluid read with a gripping dystopian premise.