When everyone reads minds, a secret is a dangerous thing to
keep.
Sixteen-year-old Kira Moore is a zero, someone who can’t
read thoughts or be read by others. Zeros are outcasts who can’t be trusted,
leaving her no chance with Raf, a regular mindreader and the best friend she
secretly loves. When she accidentally controls Raf’s mind and nearly kills him,
Kira tries to hide her frightening new ability from her family and an
increasingly suspicious Raf. But lies tangle around her, and she’s dragged deep
into a hidden underworld of mindjackers, where having to mind control everyone
she loves is just the beginning of the deadly choices before her.
Okay, I really liked this book, and I thought it was going
to be average and kinda mediocre. I’ve read books with mind-reading before, but
this was so interesting and different that I was left turning page after page,
hungry for information and getting more and more twisted up in the story. Kira
is a fun character because for the last few years she has become a varitable
pariah because she can’t read minds and no one can read hers. I mean, if you
can’t read their mind, they can’t be trustworthy right? At least that’s what
society at large believes about “zeros” like Kira. What Kira finds out in a
desperate moment is that she isn’t without power. It’s just not the power she
wanted. She’s a mindjacker. She can control people and make them do anything
she wants, even believe that she is just like them. A whole world opens up to Kira at the
prospect of being ‘normal’ or letting everyone believe that she is normal. But
the one thing that she has to do to get her normal life is the one thing she
can’t stomach….lying. To everyone. Forever. This book is amazing in the way it
projects how people would live with the ability to read minds, and the
frightening things that mindjackers are capable of and how bias and fear will
always be alive so long as there is someone different.
I give it a 4 out of 5- it was close to a 3.5 but it was
just so well done. Bravo.
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