Review: Great book, totally unexpected. Recommend highly!
Rating: 5 out of 5
Date: 05 27, 2014
I really enjoyed reading this novel and the first two before it. When I read the synopsis for all three stories I thought maybe the story line would be a little too aimed towards the "teen" crowd and I wasn't sure if I would enjoy it. But I became so involved with the characters in the stories that I read all three books in as many days and am looking forward to the next books in the series.The story line was very different from anything I have read before. I've watched movies with "mutants" and although I liked them it was nothing compared to the way this author made all of it seem a lot more realistic and plausible. I got pretty involved with the main character, everything about her is so real. Besides the normal teenage angst, this girl survived unspeakable abuse from her own mother. BEING locked in a house, alone and afraid that her mother might not return this time is just the tip of the iceberg for this poor young girl.Not only was she abandoned and has no idea why, she starts developing abilities that she didn't know she had, abilities she is pretty sure other normal girl don't . What hurts her the most is finding out that her mother had been lying to her all her life, had kept huge secrets from her about what she is and all this has left her questioning if anything in her life was real and doubting whether or not her mother ever actually loved her. She has grown into a young woman with no experience of any kind of the world just outside her front door. She knows that there's something very different about herself and that she has come to a crossroad in her life where she needs to choose which way to go, what will she be and what will she believe. It doesn't take long for her to see has her future thrust upon her and has no choice in which direction her life is to go.The story line is fascinating, Heart breaking, imaginative, futuristic, fast paced, thought-provoking  and will keep your interest peaked wanting to know what happens next. THEN will start it all over again.. S. has a biting, sarcastic sense of humor and brings you into her world where you find yourself fighting with her to just figure out how not just survive the next moment...But to live it.I believe this book would be great for almost any one over the age of 12/13 yrs. it does have quite a bit of violence in it and a little sexual content so I guess you just need to know your own child's level of maturity in handling the content in this series of books.For me I would recommend this book for anyone who wants to try something a little out of their comfort zone and everyone who loves this genre. I was incredibly surprised to find myself enjoying every minute of the story and unable to put down the books till I had finished all three of them. NOW I need to get the next three books in the series...because I am hooked!.Thanks Robert Crane for introducing me to a genre I never thought I would enjoy reading. I'm pretty sure it's not just the content that convinced me to reject my g that all mutants, vampyres, and other weird or dead characters are too impossibly unrealistic for me to enjoy reading about. He has a way of drawing you into the story, bringing the characters to life, dragging you deeply into the characters emotional highs and lows until you have unknowingly developed a vested interest in the characters you have become intimately familiar with and their stories.