Review: Great addition to The Darkest Minds series!
Rating: 4 out of 5
Date: 07 24, 2013
In Time was a nice addition to The Darkest Minds universe, which was a treat in the YA Fantasy world. The Darkest Minds  was exciting and interesting, with incredible characters and an ugly plot. The characters are ones that will stay with you after the book is closed, and a few reenter our lives briefly during In Time.This novella is not happy times. We get a glimpse of life outside the concentration camps from the perspective of a young adult. Gabe is an average young man who is struggling to survive the post-Idiopathic Adolescent Acute Neurodegeneration U.S. and the resulting "abnormal" children it produced. Gabe leaves home, which is not saying much, in search of a good future for himself. He decides to become a skip tracer, a group of adults who seek out children that have escaped the concentration camps. They bring them back to the government for $10K a pop, and that's a nice living in this new nation. Unfortunately, Gabe must bag and tag a child first before he is given access to all the nifty skip tracer gadgets and intel.Gabe gets lucky, in more ways than I can describe, when he comes across a group of kids who are fleeing some skip tracers. After some risky maneuvering and near-death moments, Gabe flees the scene with a small girl who doesn't speak. From this point on, Gabe's world is changed, in a big way. I loved Gabe's development throughout the story. His realization about who he really is was a beautiful thing, and I enjoyed watching his transformation.This is definitely a separate story from The Darkest Minds,  but there are still connections to the characters we love. One connection, in particular, had me gasp. I remember holding my hand to my chest and screaming OMG! It was so satisfying to feel that character, even though they were not a part of this story.