Review: Well written
Rating: 5 out of 5
Date: 02 11, 2013
"Gifted" by Jenny Phillips is a well written young adult story about a girl with supernatural talents who after the loss of her parents starts life at Manchester Academy Boarding School. She soon finds her bearings at school but struggles with nightmares, her unexplainable gift to change her hair and some odd seizure she cannot put into context. Just as she starts dating one boy another appears who seems to know about her abilities.This book is teenage literature at a very skilled level. It reads easily and introduces the characters and their thoughts in a well paced and empathetic way. The confusion that our heroine feels about everything that she learns is very convincing and so is her emotional turmoil about which boy to trust and chose. There are a few scary moments in this book - her nightmares mainly but the way in which the supernatural powers are introduced seem perfectly appropriate for younger readers. I cared a lot for the characters and wanted the story to continue.