jbronderbookreviews

I am still alive, contrary to the lack of posts. I have been super busy and hardly had time to read. I do have some older reviews that I’m going to post, so there will be a couple in a row. I still have a huge TBR pile and I’m so sorry to everyone that I have told I will review their books but have taken so long to get to them. My New Years Resolution is to get my butt in gear and make this up to everyone.

Having said that, here is the first of several late reviews.

Solid by Shelley Workinger

5 stars

(Excerpt from Goodreads) Teens who discover they were secretly genetically altered before birth are brought together at a classified site where they forge new friendships, find love, develop “super-abilities,” and even unearth a conspiracy.

The army has released information of one of their doctors experimenting on unborn children. He had given about 100 mothers tainted vitamins to alter their children with secret abilities. Now the army is trying to figure out what all the children can do and how to help them live with their new abilities.

Clio is one of the teenagers. When she gets to the camp for the teenagers, she finds that the army has spared no expense for them. They packed up the teen’s rooms at home and set up the rooms exactly as they were to make them feel more comfortable. Clio quickly meets four other kids and makes fast friends. She learns that there are three main groups; the athletes, the heavies or the goth kids, and the rest. The Jack, the guy that Clio has an instant crush on, is a floater. No one really knows what his abilities are so he floats between the groups to see where he belongs.

One day while Clio is resting, she over hears a conversation that gets her to think that something far different is going on. When she brings her suspicions up to her new friends, they go on a fact-finding mission.

I really liked this book. I got sucked in with the prolog and couldn’t wait to learn what abilities they kid’s would have. The interactions between characters was really good, especially the heavies and their moodiness. I liked how the book ended with the opening for more books to come. I cannot wait to get Settling. If you like young adult stories you will love this book.

I received this book for free from a giveaway and promised the author an honest review.