Review: Enjoyable Paranormal YA book
Rating: 4 out of 5
Date: 05 17, 2014
The book is about Amanda, who isn't quite normal… she can shoot snow from her hands.  All she wants is a normal life, but having sinister ‘Coats’ the scientists that killed her parents 4 years ago and who are also determined to catch her its not really possible.Amanda is 17 is living with her brother, Scott in a small town in Arizona.  They have been able to stay long enough for her to make friends she even has a best friend called Georgia,  She's still constantly on the look out for the Coats, and has to keep control of her powers so not to give herself away.This book has the familiar theme of the heroine who longs for a 'normal' life - but realizes that in reality she will never get that option, and will have to fight to keep her freedom and her family and friends safe.The story line although of a similar vein of other YA Paranormal books, was refreshing enough for me to read on and keep guessing, I liked the powers Amanda had, it made for interesting scenarios, there are enough plot twists to keep you guessing. If like "I Am Number Four" by P. Lore, then you are going to love this series.I was able to imagine all the characters quite well, and the relationships were also well written, it was nice to see Amanda not falling for Zach straight away, I liked how she questioned his motives.Her Best friend Georgia is the best friend you always wanted, and Amanda loves her like a sister. Scott was a great Big Brother, not too controlling, treated 17 yr old Amanda as an adult really, but I think I would have liked a bit more background information on how and why the 'coats' were after them.  (maybe we find out more in book 2)I also was a bit skeptical about how Scott managed to keep them on the move but still had the money to open and run a Smoothie shop - But all in all the book kept me glued to it for 2 days. And I think the research done on How the powers were given to Amanda's mum should have been more thorough, the science didn't make sense and since her father was an employee of the company, surely he should have researched the test study more before letting his wife participate?I was lucky enough to be gifted this book for a Blog Tour being run for the Release of Book 2 but I would have bought it anyway if it had come up on my radar.  I have read the Author's other series penned under the name Reese Munroe - the Bound By Hades series.The book is well worth the price and I would recommend it to anyone who loves the YA Paranormal genre  but even if you are not normally into this Genre why not give it a go, or any others written by Lynn Rush...as books sold under this pen name, a portion of the proceeds is donated to the American Cancer Society, which I think is a great reason for me to go look for other books I may enjoy.Well done Lynn, and I LOVE the BOOK COVERS, its nice to see a cover that really shows what the books about (I would love cool hair like that too!)