Title: The
Darkest Minds
Author: Alexandra
Bracken
Publisher:
Hyperion
Length: 488
Rating: 4.5/5
Sixteen year old Ruby breaks out of a government-run rehab
camp for kids who developed dangerous powers after a virus took out most
children in the United States and threw the country into a panic. Ruby joins up
with another group of escaped kids as they search for a legendary safe haven,
called East River, for kids like them. But everyone, from the people searching
for Ruby, to the teens at East River, has their own agenda, and Ruby is hiding
her own dangerous secrets.
Want to know how great this book is? Story time! I was home
for Memorial Day weekend, and requested this book from the library, in the
off-chance that I would have time to read it. I started it, and didn’t want to
put it down (but come on, it’s Memorial Day weekend and there’s no time for
reading). Then it was time to leave, and so I took it with me, on the plane to
New York, so that I didn’t actually have to put it down. I went to the
bookstore in NYC the next day and bought a copy. (And then, yes, I had to ship
the library book back to Kansas!)
Why couldn’t I put this book down, you ask? You can’t help
but root for the characters, who have known nothing but brutality in the camps since
they were children, but who still have some sort of belief that the world isn’t
one giant terrible place. Ruby joins up with Liam, Chubs, and Suzume, and
together, they become a family that believes in each other, and encourages each
other to use their “dangerous powers” for good (and to escape the bad guys,
because they’re constantly in danger).
The powers themselves were really interesting (who didn’t
want to have a super power growing up?). These kids have real power in their
hands—controlling minds, fire, electricity, and more—and some use it for good,
and some for evil. This book was great at pointing out the grey areas of good
and evil, and how hard it is to navigate that.
With awesome world building, characters, and twisting story
full of impossible choices, this is one book you shouldn’t miss.
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