Review: Natural Selection
Rating: 4 out of 5
Date: 07 5, 2014
** I was given a copy of this book in exchange for an honest review **The young protagonist, Amelia or Lia as she prefers, is a 15 year old girl stuck in a 10 year old body, and not too happy about it either, and who can blame her. Being a teenager is hard enough without looking like a child, and wondering if, and when, you’ll finally bloom.What Lia doesn’t know is that she is not like her friends, and her family is also very different, and not what you would call a typical family. Her parents, and older siblings, have been keeping secrets, and when those secrets finally come out it will blow Lia’s mind. She will discover her true heritage, face foes she never dreamed existed outside of books, lose loved ones, and fall in love.There were times in roughly the first third of the novel that I wanted to yell at her mother to come clean, and stop telling Lia snippets of the truth inevitably keeping her in the dark about what she was, and what would happen when her ‘change’ occurred, which could only lead to trouble. However, once Lia found out the truth, and had gone through the ‘change’ the story really took off.It was an enjoyable read, and even though I found a few minor errors, and the word drug was used instead of drag, I didn’t come across anything that was distracting enough to throw me out of the story.The first 4 chapters of book 2, Second Nature, are included at the end, and after reading them I’m looking forward to continuing Lia’s story.I think YA readers in the 13 – 15 age bracket will really enjoy this book.