Jordana's 2nd review of the " The Bar Code Tatto"

The plot thickens

In the book "The Bar code Tattoo" the mystery of the tattoo grows and grows. When we last left Kayla her father had committed suicide because of the tattoo on his arm, for reasons unknown to her. Her mother had fallen into a state of depression which concluded in her loosing her job.

We learn more about the bar code tattoo from Kayla's next-door neighbor, an ex-tattoo artist who got out of trouble with the government by taking up the job of applying the barcode tattoos. Kayla learns from him that idea of identifying people with tattoos on their arms started up in Europe, then moved to Asia, and soon after took root in America. He can't explain it to Kayla but he tells her that getting a barcode tattoo will ruin your life, and that he'd seen it happen before.

After this Kayla meets a group of kids who are against the barcode tattoos as well. One of the boys in the group, Ezekiel came to America because the barcode tattoo ruined his parents lives. As soon as his mother and father had gotten the tattoos his father who was never high-ranking in his work suddenly kept getting promoted and promoted. While his mother was fired and couldn't get a job since, this made them fight and finally break up.

Kayla's friend Amber is going to do similar things with her family. One day Amber's father's tattoo wouldn't work. He couldn't access his accounts, was fired from his job, and was left helpless. Soon after her mother's had to went dead as well, and no one could help them. It go so bad that they had to move, leaving Kayla alone with her drunk mother.

The story is really getting kind of creepy when the tattoos on the characters arms failed them. I love stories with conspiracies and anything anti- ''the man''. The author writes in such a way that you really do want more, and the mystery of the tattoo is really quite intriguing. The character of Kayla though is a tad unrealistic, she's so strong in the face of everything depressing and sad in her life. This makes her a little unlikable that she can so easily shake off her father's death and her mother's ineptitude. All in all though, I'm enjoying this book so far, my mother says it has an awful ending but we'll see.