Review: 5 Fast Moving Stars
Rating: 5 out of 5
Date: 01 6, 2014
Let me first start off by saying that I am not a fan of dystopian AT ALL, but yet the way Lila writes a book, you can’t help but fall in love with  the genre she is writing for? She could probably make me fall in love with the way sewer smelled, with the way she writes. She puts so much detail into her stories, that you feel as if it is really happening around you. With that said….Petra & Lawson are part of a society that was once the United States, that is before the United Nations took over and had other plans for them. There are now two classes in this new society, First one being the people who the government performed Lobotomies on and they worked, turning them into mindless humans almost as if they are Zombies. Second being those who the procedures didn't work on and those who got away before being captured.Petra is one the Government had performed a Lobotomy on that did not quite work, but to survive and not be found out, she plays along with the crowd and doesn’t care what is happening around her or to her as long as she is never found out. Well that is until Lawson comes around and follows her home one night.Lawson is kind of like a Head Hunter of sorts. He goes around to the different cities trying to find those that the Government’s procedure failed on. He is on his way out of this last mindless city he is in, when he spots her…..He knows without a doubt that she is not like the others, so he spends extra time there following her and watching her. For some reason she isn't like anyone else he has ever come across before, she is special.~When I’d followed her the day after seeing her the first time, I waited on the roof of an abandoned building, needing to know if she was real or just a fluke. But I knew a failed experiment when I saw one. Waiting in line with the others to get rations, garbed in the status-quo white long sleeved shirt and white pants that resembled doctor scrubs, there was something not quite the same about her. Her hair was combed for one thing—it was long, brown—and so dark it was almost black. And when her eyes darted to the buildings above her and to the beings around her, I could see an almost obsolete tint of amber in her irises. ~LawsonI can not wait to see where this story goes next, because when it ended Lila left me with my mouth hanging open, really wondering who Petra really is, and what part is she going to play in helping to win back the United States, also what mysteries does Lawson have hiding behind that tough-guy exterior and why is he willing to let Petra in, but never anyone else?ARC provided by Author for honest Review