![]() ![]() ![]() The teenagers in the story are fairly fully realized, and it's particularly refreshing to see them, despite their giftedness (pre- and post-viral enhancement), behaving like teens and not like miniature adults. This device is a bit overused, particularly by thriller writers, but the rest of the book makes up for it. In medias res" with a prologue that ends in a cliffhanger showing the kids in peril, and then of course jumps back to the recent past to show how they got there. There are some minor problems in the narrative, and a few clichés here and there, but nothing too distracting. Reichs makes her protagonists engaging and smart, but not so Sherlock-Holmes-know-it-all as to be annoying. ![]() When animal-lover Tory and her "sci-phile" friends free a dog from a secret lab on another island, they don't realize that they've been infected with an engineered canine virus, which is slowly rewriting their own DNA.Īs they discover newfound abilities, they're also caught up in much more sinister goings-on: a decades-old murder that someone will do anything to cover up. She's going to a new school, and has made friends on the island with the other resident kids her own age, all boys and science geeks like herself. ![]()
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