But now she's had enough. She's kept the truth hidden since everyone tried to convince her she was crazy and sent her to Dr. Lowell, her psychiatrist. Now, with the help of her best friend, Tack, she's looking for answers starting in Lowell's office. It's there that she learns the words "Project Nemesis," and her investigation begins to heat up.
Noah spends most of his time alone in his father's big house on the mountain. Every two years on his birthday he dreams he is murdered by a man in a black suit. Then, he somehow sleepwalks and wakes up in a cave. The only person he trusts is his psychiatrist, Dr. Lowell.
Meanwhile, the rest of the world is waiting in an anxious fervor to find out if an asteroid is going to hit the earth and destroy all life.
Is Project Nemesis somehow connected to the asteroid? What about the secret military base on the outskirts of town? Most importantly, who are the other beta test subjects, and can Min trust them?
I think Brendan Reichs has created a world fans of Divergent and The Maze Runner will really enjoy. The stories are quite different but tonally similar. I definitely powered through to the end to find out what would happen next, but there were a couple of things that disappointed me. Min's mother points out that her IQ is off the charts, but it still took her sixteen years to really start questioning things. Also, if she' really so smart, she should have figured out the identity of one of the other betas almost immediately. There are still lots of unanswered questions that I hope Reichs will get to in the next installment. How do you kill and restore a regular human being within a few hours? What were the blue pills really?
That being said, Reichs does a great job with character development. None of the major character shifts seem out of the blue. He plants plenty of clues along the way.
Recommended for 8th grade and up for violence and profanity.
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