Adaptation by Malinda Lo
386 pgs.Target audience: Young Adult
Rating: Dragon
The sky is falling! – well not
really, but flocks of birds are falling to earth after causing planes all over
the world to crash and burn. The airports are locked down, curfew is imposed
and Reese and David on their way back to San Francisco after a debate
tournament are trapped in the Phoenix airport. Their debate coach secures a
rental car, but the exit routes are clogged with other travelers desperate to
reach home. They finally end up making it as far as rural Nevada where their
coach is killed in a carjacking at a gas station. Terrified, Reese and David
flee north, but a bird flies into the windshield sending the car tumbling into
a ditch. Reese and David wake up in a strange military hospital right in the
middle of Area 51. They’ve both been operated on and appear completely healed.
They sign non-disclosure statements and are escorted back home. Things get even
weirder when Reese notices that her scars aren’t just healed, they’ve
disappeared as if the accident never even happened. Her memories are sketchy
except for a bizarre reoccurring dream. David is experiencing similar
anomalies. Reese meets and falls for the beautiful and alluring Amber Gray, while
harboring feelings for David. This brief
romantic interlude seems random, but Amber is later revealed to be at the
center of the government’s web of secrecy. Disaster, government conspiracies, miraculous
medical procedures, create a heart pounding science fiction thriller.
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