Didn't finish reading. While the description on the cover looked interesting, the book itself was not. The concept is good, but the exectution was horrible. The dialogue was completely unrealistic and the narration dry. Cliches were abused. And when the title says "Bar Code Tattoo," it means it--that's all the book was about. The characters were just two-dimensional faces only there so that the author could talk about the tattoos. The main character was nothing but a mouthpiece to keep talking about the tattoos, so much that she seemed to have a weird obsession for it that no rational person ever would--the only possible explaination for it was that the author needed someone to care about it. 
 Now, this review is likely very biased due to the fact that I only got to page fifty-two. Horrible, I know. I really should keep my mouth shut. Usually I carry on in books like this just so that I can affirm that the book is no good or, usually, to see if it at least gets better. This book, however . . . the author has never heard of figurative language or the phrase "show, don't tell." I can deal with bad dialogue, for the most part, or bad narration, but not combined. I don't like blowing off books, but I can't help it in this case. This just was not good.