Altered (Altered #1)
by Jennifer Rush
Hardcover, 336 pages
Published January 1st 2013
by Little, Brown Books for Young Readers
Thoughts:
Altered is fueled with action from the get go as we get a pretty quick introduction on Anna and the boys and their individual quirks and traits before they decided to make a hasty exit when the secret organization which held them hostage wanted to use them.
As the boys race along to find the missing pieces to their past, Anna discovered more starling revelations about her own. The story tend to jump from one scene to the next but the attraction between Sam the leader of the group and Anna is electrifying. The likeness to the Bourne movies is unmistakable and I'm thinking that this book might be a good book for guys.
There's twists and turns galore at every corner and just as the boys are about to find the truth about their existence, one of them turns out to be a mole in their midst. It turns out that Anna and Sam's past are very much related to each other. Although I was excited to find out more about the guys, I just can't help but think that the whole 'mysterious operation producing super humans' plotline is kind of cliche and stereotypical.
In my Debut Author, Fantasy & Books in a Series Reading Challenge
Verdict: 3 stars.
Available on: Amazon
Summary from Goodreads:
When you can’t trust yourself, who can you believe?
Everything about Anna’s life is a secret. Her father works for the Branch at the helm of its latest project: monitoring and administering treatments to the four genetically altered boys in the lab below their farmhouse. There’s Nick, Cas, Trev . . . and Sam, who’s stolen Anna’s heart. When the Branch decides it’s time to take the boys, Sam stages an escape, killing the agents sent to retrieve them.
Anna is torn between following Sam or staying behind in the safety of her everyday life. But her father pushes her to flee, making Sam promise to keep her away from the Branch, at all costs. There’s just one problem. Sam and the boys don’t remember anything before living in the lab—not even their true identities.
Now on the run, Anna soon discovers that she and Sam are connected in more ways than either of them expected. And if they’re both going to survive, they must piece together the clues of their past before the Branch catches up to them and steals it all away.
Thoughts:
Altered is fueled with action from the get go as we get a pretty quick introduction on Anna and the boys and their individual quirks and traits before they decided to make a hasty exit when the secret organization which held them hostage wanted to use them.
As the boys race along to find the missing pieces to their past, Anna discovered more starling revelations about her own. The story tend to jump from one scene to the next but the attraction between Sam the leader of the group and Anna is electrifying. The likeness to the Bourne movies is unmistakable and I'm thinking that this book might be a good book for guys.
There's twists and turns galore at every corner and just as the boys are about to find the truth about their existence, one of them turns out to be a mole in their midst. It turns out that Anna and Sam's past are very much related to each other. Although I was excited to find out more about the guys, I just can't help but think that the whole 'mysterious operation producing super humans' plotline is kind of cliche and stereotypical.
In my Debut Author, Fantasy & Books in a Series Reading Challenge
Verdict: 3 stars.
Available on: Amazon
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