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The Body Institute, by Carol Riggs is a compelling read with an intriguing premise. It grapples with body image and scientific technology gone awry. What if you could swap bodies? What if you could pay someone to enter your body and lose weight for you? Would you do it? Do our bodies affect who we are inside? Does our consciousness change with changes in our physical appearance?

Carol Riggs explores all of this with her engaging characters and fast paced plot. The book shines a light on fat shaming in a way that seems eerily close to the truth in our world today.

Morgan is a teen girl who needs money to keep her family out of the slums.Although she is brilliant, her application for a school grant is suspiciously denied. She discovers she will get the grant if she becomes a REDUCER and allows her brain to be uploaded into the body of a girl who is 100 pounds overweight. Morgan must lose the weight before she can be returned to her own body, but she imagines the job will be fairly easy and without lasting consequences. But when her thoughts are invaded by those of the girl she’s inhabiting, will her views change. She begins to consider: "Are we our minds...or our bodies?"

This book is well worth the read for anyone who enjoys sci-fi or simply enjoys a good read!


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The Body Institute edition by Carol Riggs Children eBooks Reviews

What would it be like to wake up in some one else's body? The author asks us to imagine the possibilities while also raising our awareness of the growing obesity epidemic. Is the epidemic a public or a private issue? Oh, the moral dilemma! Well written and thought provoking.
I liked it. Because the story was believable, the characters were relatable, and that's why I felt totally immersed in this incredible world and found myself experiencing a wide range of emotions. There were unexpected twists and it wasn't predictable. The book has a good flow to it as it well written.
I like that it wasn't depressing like other dystopian books, even with all the main character goes through. She is strong and inspiring.
The Body Institute is a fun YA Sci-Fi read that I devoured in a couple of days. The book asks some freaky and thoughtful questions what if the government controlled people's weight? Are we defined by our looks? Are we our bodies or or minds? This is NOT a fat shaming book - in fact it is just the opposite.

The story itself was a bit slow to start, with the real action picking up towards the middle of the book This is understandable in a way, because we are introduced to Morgan's life, The Body Institute and the struggles / mystery surrounding it. I loved Carol Riggs' writing style - a great mix of concrete details with just enough poetic description. While I really enjoyed this book I wish there was a lot more world building. I found myself confused as to how things were in this future and simply longed for more insight. For example, what are these colored zones people live in? I would have liked to known more details. I was excited to read this book because I love psychology / neuroscience stuff. I was definitely surprised by the turn of events and felt really bad for the MC.

I highly recommend this book if you enjoy shows like The Dollhouse and Inception.
I LOVED this book. It had a really interesting premise that was told well with lots of twists and turns.

I liked the writing style and the characters and the constant twists and turns. I also liked that nothing in the book felt unnecessary, and it wrapped up nicely in the end. I also really liked the futuristic world. I could really picture it, which is sometimes tough for me with sci-fi novels.
A really entertaining read. Well paced, kept me interested the whole way through. Just the right amount of angst, baddies, goodies, over controlling government, and intrigue. A very interesting concept - that of putting someones 'brain waves' into someone else's body so that they are living for that person for a period of time. And the way it is explained it almost seems feasible, like it could actually be done. Which make the whole book even more entertaining. I read this one fast and I wish it was part of a series. Who knows maybe the author plans for it to be. I will be going to find her other books as I really enjoyed this one a lot.
Riggs proposes that minds cannot be copied (as many other authors do willy-nilly). She also proposes a mind-body link that the scientists don't really know about. Normally it is such that nothing important is lost since the Reducers always return to their own bodies. But when things start to go wrong, the problems become apparent, at least to our heroine.

What I didn't like, and withheld a star for, is that the novel becomes more and more dystopian and despite her best efforts and some successes, the heroine's life goes down into chaos. It's just a tad too depressing for me.
Morgan Dey is a fascinating character. Her concern for her family’s welfare and need for money drives her to participate in the reducing program at The Body Institute and also gives us a glimpse of her true nature. It would have been easy to lose herself in the body her mind inhabits, but she remains Morgan and works hard to find out what is really happening with the Institute.

Filled with suspense, I wondered how the author would ever bring the various pieces of this mystery puzzle together, but she managed to give us a strong and satisfying ending.
The Body Institute, by Carol Riggs is a compelling read with an intriguing premise. It grapples with body image and scientific technology gone awry. What if you could swap bodies? What if you could pay someone to enter your body and lose weight for you? Would you do it? Do our bodies affect who we are inside? Does our consciousness change with changes in our physical appearance?

Carol Riggs explores all of this with her engaging characters and fast paced plot. The book shines a light on fat shaming in a way that seems eerily close to the truth in our world today.

Morgan is a teen girl who needs money to keep her family out of the slums.Although she is brilliant, her application for a school grant is suspiciously denied. She discovers she will get the grant if she becomes a REDUCER and allows her brain to be uploaded into the body of a girl who is 100 pounds overweight. Morgan must lose the weight before she can be returned to her own body, but she imagines the job will be fairly easy and without lasting consequences. But when her thoughts are invaded by those of the girl she’s inhabiting, will her views change. She begins to consider "Are we our minds...or our bodies?"

This book is well worth the read for anyone who enjoys sci-fi or simply enjoys a good read!