Author: Melissa West
Rating: ★★★
Seventeen-year-old Ari Alexander is the daughter of Americas second in command, the Commander.
She
is in line to take the Commander's posistion one day, and that means
the responsibility of protecting her loved ones, and the country, from
the Ancients.
What are Ancients you ask?
Let me tell you...
Decades before, Ancients,
an extraterrestrial species, came to our world via the trees, (yep, you
heard me. Trees-- but it's a lot cooler than it sounds) because the
natural resources on their planet were depleting.
The Ancients struck
a deal with the leaders of our world--- they would come and go
peacefully, and in exchange, every night every American citizen, ten
years or older, must participate in the Taking.
During the Taking, humans wear a sort of high tech eye mask that basically paralyzises and blinds them while the Ancients take a little of the humans nutrients and natural anti-bodies necessary to survive in our atmosphere.
Everything
is going peachy until one night Ari can't find her eye mask, and peeks
during the taking. What--or who-- she sees shocks her.
Jackson Locke, her incredibly handsome, yet pretty jerk-y classmate, whom she had up until then presumed to be HUMAN.
After
her discovery, she interacts with Jackson, which is a HUGE no-no, and
he tries to enlist her in helping him divert an epic war brewing between
the Ancients and the citizens of Earth.
Torn between duty, family, and love, Ari must decide whose side she's on and what the repercussions of her actions will be.
I
actually liked this book a lot. It did have some plot holes here and
there, and didn't really explain certain things, but it still kept me
reading.
(The sequel, Hover, is already out.)
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