Author: Malinda Lo
Series: Adaptation
#1
Published: April 3 2014 by Hodder
Length: 432 pages
Source: publisher
Other info: Malinda
Lo has also written Huntress, Ash (review here), and
Inheritance.
Summary: Flocks
of birds are hurling themselves at aeroplanes across America. Thousands of
people die. Millions are stranded. Everyone knows the world will never be the
same.
On Reese's long drive home, along a stretch of empty highway at night, a bird flies into their headlights. The car flips over. When they wake up in a military hospital, the doctor won't tell them what happened.
For Reese, though, this is just the start. She can't remember anything from the time between her accident and the day she woke up almost a month later. She only knows one thing: she's different now. Torn between longtime crush David and new girl Amber, the real question is: who can she trust?
On Reese's long drive home, along a stretch of empty highway at night, a bird flies into their headlights. The car flips over. When they wake up in a military hospital, the doctor won't tell them what happened.
For Reese, though, this is just the start. She can't remember anything from the time between her accident and the day she woke up almost a month later. She only knows one thing: she's different now. Torn between longtime crush David and new girl Amber, the real question is: who can she trust?
Review: It all
starts when Reese Holloway is waiting
for a plane back from debating and birds
fall out of the sky. Stranded, she and the debate team decide to head home in a
rented car, and things change even more. With no idea of the events after a
crash, nor the later happenings or procedures, Reese finds some anwers that
will change her life, and humanity, forever.
Huntress, I didn't enjoy especially, but Ash was one of my
favourite books due to the writing style and the new take on an old story.
Adaptation leaves the fantasy route and goes down the scifi men-in-black route,
and it does this really well.
I love the characters. Amber's probably my favourite,
because she's adorable and funny and I fell in love with her. I also liked that
you had to constantly question her and her loyalties. David- CHINESE MC HECK
YEAH (I get excited by chinese main characters) was also really adorable and
smart. Reese isn't one of my favourite characters, she seemed a bit ordinary
compared to a cast full of scientists and government agents and conspiracy
theory website runners and things which I want to say but that's kind of
spoilery, but I did like the fact that she constantly questioned things. Oh,
and love to Reese's mum. See the lawyering badass love for her daughter and
reaction to her coming out as bisexual.
Nowhere in this book is a good place to stop reading-most certainly not the end.. Every point in Adaptation was either too intriguing or too
exciting or too adorable to let you even think about putting it down, and I've
had the must-never-stop-reading-this-feeling for very few books before.
Overall: Strength 5 tea to a book I recommend to
everyone, especially mystery, scifi, thriller, romance fans.
