Review: needs work
Rating: 2 out of 5
Date: 02 16, 2014
When I first stated reading this book, I thought I was going to like it.  Sadly, that proved to be not the case.There are too many huge plot holes.  The characters are mostly dumb as bricks.  Two characters, Amanda and Scott, are on the run from a mysterious, apparently non-governmental, research company that is trying to capture Amanda and that killed her parents, and yet they still trust anyone who shows up in their lives unexpectedly and says "trust me, I am your friend."  The bad guys repeatedly find out things that the main characters only just discovered for themselves, and no one thinks "gee, how are they learning these secrets?"There is a lot of description that does not appear to serve any purpose (we are repeatedly told throughout the book that Amanda's boyfriend has a spicy scent and minty breath, which makes me think he is some type of mutant himself) while needed description is not provided.  And the proofreading needs to be redone (for instance, colored hair is dyed, not died).In addition, our author throws around technical terms like "nanotechnology" and "nanobytes" apparently without having a clue what they mean.  Just to clarify folks, nanotechnology is *not" taking organisms and DNA and shrinking them down to nanobytes; nanobytes are *not* tiny particles - a "byte" is  unit of digital information in computing, not a measurement of dimensions. When an author uses technical terms, she needs to take a few minutes to find out what they mean and then use them correctly or risk confusing or annoying the audience.And the basic premise - Amanda's mother was told underwent allergy testing as part of a clean energy project - REALLY???  But was in fact injected with nanobytes instead?  Boggles the mind that what was supposed to be an intelligent woman would agree to any such scheme.  Since it makes zero sense.