Review: Disjointed %spoilers%
Rating: 2 out of 5
Date: 09 22, 2013
Rather than a Y.A. story, I think this was meant for a very young audience, perhaps 10-13 y.o.  Kira's protective love for her family in poor circumstances drew me into the story. She works hard to keep her homeless mom and siblings together and healthy. Disaster strikes. An organization called SCI comes to the family's rescue, but quickly separates all the family members.The weirdness at the SCI becomes immediately apparent to the reader and should be apparent to someone in her mid/late teens, (think Scientology meets Star Trek, definitely not good) and it's become a clichéd bore. All the hints of a sinister and secret agenda are ignored for too long. Crushes and teen angst follow. Aliens. The end. This reads like a too wordy prologue more than a book. The 10-13 year olds might get a kick out of it though.