They’re about as close to the horror genre as I get, and I love walking that line like it’s a tightrope.
Everything about it screamed “Psychological thriller! Read me!” I have a weakness for sometimes dark, often twisty, books. I knew that I was going to love The Unbecoming of Mara Dyer. She doesn’t believe that after everything she’s been through, she can fall in love. She believes there must be more to the accident she can’t remember that killed her friends and left her mysteriously unharmed. Mara Dyer doesn’t think life can get any stranger than waking up in a hospital with no memory of how she got there. Genre(s): Mystery, Paranormal, Romance, Thriller Agent: Robin Rue, Writers House.Publisher: Simon & Schuster Children’s Publishing The result is a science fiction adventure that’ll leave fans demanding the next installment. The gradual unveiling of answers, with Miki relentlessly pressing her teammates for information, occasionally gets frustrating and repetitive, but the payoff-as Silver reveals the true extent of the premise and its implications-is worth it. Silver expertly intertwines Miki’s real life and missions, providing an exciting contrast as things get increasingly complicated. She quickly develops a love-hate relationship with her taciturn team leader, Jackson Tate, and the more Miki learns about the “game” she’s caught up in, the higher the stakes become. It’s on-the-job training, laid out in the framework of a giant game, with points given for various objectives and deducted for certain infractions.
Junior Miki Jones is the latest recruit, plucked from her normal existence to fight aliens hiding among humanity and help prepare the world for a full-scale incursion. Adult author Silver (Body of Sin) makes her YA debut with a fast-paced story, first in The Game series, in which specially selected teens wage a secret war against invading aliens.
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