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Hunting Lila by Sarah Anderson
Oct. 19th, 2011 11:26 pmThe Blurb On The Back:
17-year-old Lila has two secrets she’s prepared to take to the grave. The first is that she can move things just be looking at them. The second is that she’s been in love with her brother’s best friend, Alex, since forever. Or thereabouts. After a mugging exposes her unique ability, Lila decides to run to the only people she can trust – her brother and Alex. They live in Southern California where they work for a secret organisation called The Unit, and Lila discovers that the two of them are hunting down the men who murdered her mother five years before. And that they’ve found them. In a world where nothing and no one is quite as they seem, Lila quickly realises that she is not alone – there are others with special powers out there – and her mother’s killer is one of them …
( The Review (Cut For Spoilers): )
The Verdict:
This is a readable YA romantic thriller with supernatural powers, which blends each of the genres without ever muddling them and which has an interesting central character in Lila, who has a strong voice. However, I did find the romantic love interest, Alex, to be too perfect to be believable and I would have enjoyed it more had there been a strong antagonist for them to struggle against. That said, I will check out the sequel and look forward to seeing what Sarah Alderson writes next.
HUNTING LILA was released in the UK on 4th August. Thanks to SIMON & SCHUSTER for the ARC of this book.
17-year-old Lila has two secrets she’s prepared to take to the grave. The first is that she can move things just be looking at them. The second is that she’s been in love with her brother’s best friend, Alex, since forever. Or thereabouts. After a mugging exposes her unique ability, Lila decides to run to the only people she can trust – her brother and Alex. They live in Southern California where they work for a secret organisation called The Unit, and Lila discovers that the two of them are hunting down the men who murdered her mother five years before. And that they’ve found them. In a world where nothing and no one is quite as they seem, Lila quickly realises that she is not alone – there are others with special powers out there – and her mother’s killer is one of them …
( The Review (Cut For Spoilers): )The Verdict:
This is a readable YA romantic thriller with supernatural powers, which blends each of the genres without ever muddling them and which has an interesting central character in Lila, who has a strong voice. However, I did find the romantic love interest, Alex, to be too perfect to be believable and I would have enjoyed it more had there been a strong antagonist for them to struggle against. That said, I will check out the sequel and look forward to seeing what Sarah Alderson writes next.
HUNTING LILA was released in the UK on 4th August. Thanks to SIMON & SCHUSTER for the ARC of this book.
