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Mila 2.0

By Debra Driza, published by Harper Collins

MILA 2.0 (MILA 2.0, #1)

Mila has just moved to a new, quaint town after a house fire which killed her father. She’s lost her memory, and is still trying to recover it. However, upon falling out of a car and cutting herself, she discovers wires instead of veins in her arm… and finds out that she is not like any other people. In fact, she never had a father, or lived in a house before the one in the quiet town in Minnesota- those memories were programmed by her mother in order to keep Mila from learning the truth… that she was a part of a confidential military experiment, and that her mother saved her from further experiments and termination. Now Mila knows the truth about herself, no place is safe. The military want her back, and they will stop at nothing to retrieve her and drag her back to the laboratory she came from. Mila and her mother embark on a terrifying journey, and Mila loves, loses, and realises what it truly means to be human.

WOW. Just wow. I loved this so much! Debut novels really don’t get more exhilarating than this. From the front cover and the blurb, this looked truly amazing, and it lived up to my expectations. It was gritty, fast-paced, terrifying, and crammed with action. Mila was a brilliant main character- I really connected with her and her story was an epic one. I think Mila made a solid, great protagonist, and the story of her discovering who she really is, is a really interesting one to read. All of the characters, from the love interest to the evil military generals, were extremely brilliant! I loved every second of Mila 2.0, as it was a real thrill ride to compete with I am Number Four and similar to Unremembered. The plot was brilliant; with a brilliant, strong narration. Some parts were edge-of-your-seat action scenes, others were tear-jerkingly-sad. I couldn’t stop reading… this book is a must for any YA book lover, and now I’m (rather impatiently) waiting for the sequel!

Tempest

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By Julie Cross, published by Macmillan

“Time will tear them apart…”

It’s 2009, and Jackson has a secret- he can jump back in time and relive moments in his past, and only he and his geeky friend know. Jackson has a girlfriend, the beautiful, blonde hair and blue eyed Holly, and he would do anything for her. When two mysterious men burst in on Jackson and Holly and Holly is shot, Jackson immediately jumps back in time, determined to undo it all. But, when he’s catapulted back, he ends up in 2007. after many tries, Jackson realises that he is stuck, two years from Holly being shot, and can only jump further backwards. Can he work out how to save Holly, whilst he digs up a terrifying truth about his father?

This book was good, but not exactly brilliant. The plot was an original, clever idea, and I really enjoyed it- it was a bit like groundhog day and was fun to read. However, the beginning of the book was so confusing- one minute they were in one place, the next minute Jackson was years in the past- the time travel was pretty hard to grip at first, but I came to understand it after a while. Another thing I disliked was that towards the end, the whole story was taken over with the ‘Tempest’ Time Travel Agency, and I think the whole ‘save Holly’ thing was kind of dropped.

Bad stuff aside… The character of Jackson was a real adventurous one, and he had a well developed personality and background. I liked the character of Holly, too, but I wish it would have gone more in depth to her background because I didn’t really get to know anything about her except for the fact that she had an overprotective mother.

Overall, I quite enjoyed Tempest. It was thrilling, with some cool plot twists and I liked the romance side of things, too- how Jackson kept falling in love with a past versions of his girlfriend Holly – it was a real twist on a teenage love story. It’s great for sci-fi fans!

Unremembered

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By Jessica Brody, published by Macmillan

Unremembered (Unremembered, #1)

“The only thing worse than forgetting your past… is remembering it.”

Sixteen year old Sera is the sole survivor of a plane crash in the middle of the ocean. She wakes up, nicknamed Violet for her purple eyes. She can’t remember anything at all, and she has no family looking for her. Then a mysterious boy called Zen arrives in her hospital room, and tells her that she is called Sera, that she needs to remember that she is part of a secret scientific experiment, and that she is not to trust anyone.

She is adopted by two foster parents and their son, Cody, but upon incidents that make her seem ‘supernatural’ and ‘like a robot’ to the people around her, she decides that she must uncover her real identity and sets off on a dangerous journey with the help of thirteen year old Cody to try and remember her past life. On the way she meets Zen again, and another mysterious person. Who can she trust in this new dangerous world? What is Diotech and what did they do to her? And is she falling for Zen? Read this great book to find out!

I absolutely loved this. It’s everything I hoped for; a lot of gritty action, a brilliant main character, a sci-fi based storyline, and a little bit of romance, too. Unremembered is full of exciting, and unpredictable plot twists which kept me on the edge of my seat whilst reading; and the plot in general really was brilliant. I ended up reading this in about a day, but I wish it could have been a little longer (There will be a sequel though! Yay!) .

Sera made a great leading character, and so did Zen, the love interest. I liked the ‘undying love’ between them, how she had had her memory wiped of him so many times but he was still determined to make her remember him again and never stopped loving her. I also found Cody, the thirteen year old foster brother, one of my favourite characters-He’s just so cool, a nerdy boy with a serious crush on his ‘amnesiac supermodel’ step sister!

…And now we come to the ending. THE ENDING. Possibly one of the most frustrating, most effective cliff-hangers of all time. It absolutely terrified, upset, and excited me, and now I am eagerly awaiting the publication of the sequel!

*QUICK UNRELATED NOTE- Yep, this is my third post in the space of about half an hour. I’m off ill with a cough, and sorting through forgotten, unfinished reviews and posting them! woo!*