Author: Malinda Lo
Year of Publication: 2012
Summary: Across North America, flocks of birds hurl themselves into airplanes, causing at least a dozen to crash. Thousands of people die. Fearing terrorism, the United States government grounds all flights, and millions of travelers are stranded.
Reese and her debate team partner and longtime crush David are in Arizona when it happens. Everyone knows the world will never be the same. On their drive home to San Francisco, along a stretch of empty highway at night in the middle of Nevada, a bird flies into their headlights. The car flips over. When they wake up in a military hospital, the doctor won’t tell them what happened, where they are—or how they’ve been miraculously healed.
Things become even stranger when Reese returns home. San Francisco feels like a different place with police enforcing curfew, hazmat teams collecting dead birds, and a strange presence that seems to be following her. When Reese unexpectedly collides with the beautiful Amber Gray, her search for the truth is forced in an entirely new direction—and threatens to expose a vast global conspiracy that the government has worked for decades to keep secret.
Review: Overall, Adaption was a good read. The characters were good, the story was good... it just wasn't as great as I thought it would be. It was very loosely wound, and though I read it in basically no time at all it never kept me on the edge of my seat. For as many pages as there was, there really wasn't enough steam.
Reese and Amber's relationship kind of read a little like one out of a Julie Anne Peters book - I just wasn't entirely convinced. It all seemed a little contrived, as much as I wanted to be totally on board with it and shipping it like crazy. Her relationship with David felt a little more real, though I think I like them better as friends.
I kind of wished there was more about the aliens, maybe a little spookiness, and perhaps a little more description. I'm hoping Inheritance will be better, maybe more fast paced.
Recommended for: Fans of Julie Anne Peters, LGBTQ+ Teens
Rating: 3/5 stars
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