Sixteen-year-old Maya is just an ordinary teen in an ordinary town. Sure, she doesn't know much about her background - the only thing she really has to cling to is an odd paw-print birthmark on her hip - but she never really put much thought into who her parents were or how she ended up with her adopted parents in this tiny medical-research community on Vancouver Island.
Until now.
Strange things have been happening in this claustrophobic town - from the mountain lions that have been approaching Maya to her best friend's hidden talent for "feeling" out people and situations, to the sexy new bad boy who makes Maya feel . . . . different. Combine that with a few unexplained deaths and a mystery involving Maya's biological parents and it's easy to suspect that this town might have more than its share of skeletons in its closet.
Until now.
Strange things have been happening in this claustrophobic town - from the mountain lions that have been approaching Maya to her best friend's hidden talent for "feeling" out people and situations, to the sexy new bad boy who makes Maya feel . . . . different. Combine that with a few unexplained deaths and a mystery involving Maya's biological parents and it's easy to suspect that this town might have more than its share of skeletons in its closet.
So this one has been sitting on my shelf for quite some time. I read the original trilogy three years ago and while I can’t remember all the little details I remember how much I really liked it. The characters were great, the story was unique, and it was one of those story worlds that almost wish were real.
This book, the first in the spin-off/continuation trilogy, was no different. Dare I say, it was better? Maybe not in every single sense, I felt like it was flimsier and less to chow down on while I read, but it was such a nice reprieve from the heavy things that have been circulating about my shelves.
The characters were not as in-depth as they could have been, even Maya, Daniel and Rafe, the main characters, felt like they were missing something. I’m willing to bet that’s important for the series, though. I liked all the characters, but another problem I had was that I just wasn’t connecting with any of them. Normally it doesn’t take much for me to feel like they could be my new best friend, and while I admired each of them, none of them shone out. The love triangle- can I call it that?- was fun and not as serious as some people write it, which was nice because it makes it breathable. I didn’t feel like I had to choose a side, Daniel or Rafe, and then stick with it. Personally, I think she’s going to end up with Rafe (because they never end up with the best-friend character) and I have no problem with that.
The story was very classic-YA as I call it. By that I mean that school and normal life are very important to the characters before their whole world is shifted and they are still forced to deal with normality even after the shift (i.e. Evermore by Alyson Noel; Hush, hush by Becca Fitzpatrick) and this style has pretty much gone out of YA. I like having the change in my reading diet and while I don’t think I’ll be overdosing on books like this I can look forward to the next one in complete excitement.
Over all I’m giving the book four of five stars because it just didn’t wow me. It was predictable and mundane when so much more could have happened. I plan on getting to the next one eventually, but I’m not planning on buying it anytime soon.
This book, the first in the spin-off/continuation trilogy, was no different. Dare I say, it was better? Maybe not in every single sense, I felt like it was flimsier and less to chow down on while I read, but it was such a nice reprieve from the heavy things that have been circulating about my shelves.
The characters were not as in-depth as they could have been, even Maya, Daniel and Rafe, the main characters, felt like they were missing something. I’m willing to bet that’s important for the series, though. I liked all the characters, but another problem I had was that I just wasn’t connecting with any of them. Normally it doesn’t take much for me to feel like they could be my new best friend, and while I admired each of them, none of them shone out. The love triangle- can I call it that?- was fun and not as serious as some people write it, which was nice because it makes it breathable. I didn’t feel like I had to choose a side, Daniel or Rafe, and then stick with it. Personally, I think she’s going to end up with Rafe (because they never end up with the best-friend character) and I have no problem with that.
The story was very classic-YA as I call it. By that I mean that school and normal life are very important to the characters before their whole world is shifted and they are still forced to deal with normality even after the shift (i.e. Evermore by Alyson Noel; Hush, hush by Becca Fitzpatrick) and this style has pretty much gone out of YA. I like having the change in my reading diet and while I don’t think I’ll be overdosing on books like this I can look forward to the next one in complete excitement.
Over all I’m giving the book four of five stars because it just didn’t wow me. It was predictable and mundane when so much more could have happened. I plan on getting to the next one eventually, but I’m not planning on buying it anytime soon.
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