Skinned

Its place in Cold Awakening

Skinned is book 1 in the Cold Awakening series. It is followed by Crashed. See the full Cold Awakening reading order.

Lia Kahn was a popular, thoughtless teenager until a car accident should have killed her -- except her wealthy parents had her mind uploaded into a mechanical body before she died, making her one of the first "skinners," humans reborn as immortal androids. Robin Wasserman's trilogy follows Lia as she's shunned by her old friends, rejected by her own family, and forced to find a new community among other skinners who are, depending who you ask, either humanity's next evolutionary step or something that should…