Some books are destined to be difficult to review. The Girl with All the Gifts is one such. 
 It's such a wonderful, at times scary, and thought provoking story about what makes us human and what it takes for it to be ok to cross certain lines, for the greater good. 
 Melanie, the girl with all these wonderful gifts; she's clever, sweet and caring - and curious - doesn't know much about the world. She knows facts about it, like the date of the Vernal Equinox and what that means, but she's never seen the seasons change, or even day turn to night. 
 She knows it's night because that's when she's supposed to sleep. And she knows about the Vernal Equinox because one of her teachers, her favorite, miss Justineau, told them - her and the other children - in class one day. 
 That's the only time she sees the other children, during class, and when they eat, on sundays. 
 The rest of the time she spends in her cell, waiting. Waiting for them, the men in uniforms, to come to take her to class. 
 She wants them to like her, too, like miss Justineau. She tells them good morning and one time she even tried to joke with the two men who, when they'd strapped her arms and legs to the wheelchair, were going to put the muzzle on, too. "I won't bite", she said, and smiled. But the men didn't smile back. They didn't even look at her. They looked almost... scared.