Review: Draws you in and doesn't release you
Rating: 5 out of 5
Date: 01 28, 2013
This book is awesome!  I could not put it down until I finished, and now I can't wait until the 2nd book is published so I can read it too.  I liked it so much that I read a portion of it to my class (I am a high school teacher).  After that, they took over and started taking turns reading it to each other, sitting in small groups and reading together - high schoolers - reading - not for a requirement or a grade!!!!!  Ten of my students obtained a copy of the book so that they wouldn't have to wait and borrow my book, and they are carrying these books with them everywhere around the school, and now I have heard other students also talking about this book, so I know they have been telling all their friends about it.  Rice-Mills is a wonderful YA author, but adults will enjoy her writing too.  She writes in a very unassuming way that draws you in and doesn't release you.  Her descriptions of a small Texas town are vivid and straightforward.  Her characters are just like you and me when we were teens, and their problems are much like everyone else's problems at that age, BUT  Maya Price is a senior, on her way to college on a track scholarship, and she suddenly discovers she is not who she thought she was, and her problems are so much bigger than she ever could have imagined...  Once you pick this book up, you will not be able to put it down.  Five stars, easily.  This is the best book I have read in a long time, of any genre.