Review: Good book
Rating: 4 out of 5
Date: 07 29, 2013
This is my first book by author Stacey Wallace Benefiel and this book is set I am guessing in the same type of world that her Zellie trilogy was in since it's a companion series to that trilogy.  I have not read the Zellie books, but I really didn't find myself that lost. I just realized that the adults in the book were the main characters in that series and now this one is about some older teenagers, one of them is related to Zellie and the others.Penny Black hasn't had an easy life, she has been shuffled around foster homes since she was little. She has been living on her own mostly since she started running away at age ten.  The only thing she has this mysterious power and it throws her into some weird situations and she seems to do this in her sleep and wake up in strange places. Penny has a power to rewind time, but she knows nothing about how she got this power. She sees visions of someone in trouble and she can rewind events so that nothing bad happens to  the victims.Her last rewind lands her on the side of the road and in trouble, but she gets some help from her new relative. Christopher pretends to be her uncle and takes her to the New Society school, it's designed for people just like her. She is really skittish of everyone at  first but she finally realizes that this is a place where she can be herself.Wyatt Adams is normal in a group of unusual people. He is related to all the adults by some weird relationships. (His half brother and half sister are married...don't ask..lol) It was all sort of confusing for me but I just went with the flow. He get's to be Penny's Lookout and it's a job he takes very seriously. He wants to prove to his family that he belongs here even though he has no special powers.Wyatt and Penny have a growing attraction to each other, but it sort of gets put on the back burner when Penny has a vision and they try to act on it and get in a whole lot of trouble from the adults.Okay, like I said earlier this is a spin off of another series but I didn't really feel that lost as you can sort of piece things together as the story progresses. I really enjoyed this story it was fast paced and short and could easily be read in an hour or two. I really loved all the characters and I do think it would be fun to go back and read the other series to get to know more about the adults. I am guessing that it might be from a time in the future as they use things called rectech which is sort like a fancy phone and internet system in one. (or that was how I took it)It's the first New Adult book that I have read and I know that New Adult hasn't really found its footing as a genre yet since it's really new. It seems like most of the NA books that I have seen are really just erotica for older teens and twenty-somethings or an excuse to be able to put sex in a YA novel. Found wasn't really anything like that and I was very excited! It was just a Sci-Fi/Fantasy novel with a little romance and sex towards the end but nothing really hot and heavy.The ending to this book took me totally by surprise and I am not really sure if I like it but it does make me curious enough to read the next book. It just blind sided me and I was like WHAT!! Some of the language is sort of strange in the book as I don't know why they use the word bueno all the time (I know it means good, so why don't they just say it.) So that was sort of awkward for me and there was another weird word thrown in there, but over all I really liked this book.I would recommend it for anyone who is into YA/NA books and likes sci-fi/fantasy books. (Oh and I am guessing it's listed as sci-fi because of all the cool gadgets of the future because it didn't seem that much like a sci-fi book because if it did I probably wouldn't have liked it as much since that is not my type of genre. :) )