Review: Different but good!
Rating: 5 out of 5
Date: 01 12, 2013
When I first read the synopsis for The Athena Effect I was very intrigued and thought it sounded like an interesting YA novel. I was right and this is an easy book to get lost in.The plot is different from what I have read lately and I really liked it! We start with a prologue about a young couple who are running away together. From the little bit you read about them they are scared and the girl is pregnant.When the story starts we meet Cali who is a bit of a wild child. She is homeschooled and is kept away from the world. Her parents have taught her survival skills, how to hunt and to take care of herself. They live totally off the grid. Which is a good thing since Cali is special, she can see and taste the emotions of animals and people around her and she can control them...Then Cali's parents are killed in an accident and she has to go live with an aunt she never met and her creepy boyfriend. While Cali doesn't fit in with the people at school she does eventually make friends with a neighbor boy named Cal. He looks her parents up on the internet which sends an alarm to someone who has been looking for her parents for quite a while...I enjoyed The Athena Effect so much I finished it in one day! Needless to say I am looking forward to the next installment to this series!