Monday, January 27, 2014

Control (Control #1) by Lydia Kang

Synopsis:
When a crash kills their father and leaves them orphaned, Zel knows she needs to protect her sister, Dyl. But before Zel has a plan, Dyl is taken by strangers using bizarre sensory weapons, and Zel finds herself in a safe house for teens who aren’t like any she’s ever seen before—teens who shouldn't even exist. Using broken-down technology, her new friends’ peculiar gifts, and her own grit, Zel must find a way to get her sister back from the kidnappers who think a powerful secret is encoded in Dyl’s DNA.

A spiraling, intense, romantic story set in 2150—in a world of automatic cars, nightclubs with auditory ecstasy drugs, and guys with four arms—this is about the human genetic “mistakes” that society wants to forget, and the way that outcasts can turn out to be heroes.
My Rating
-3/5-
Right from the beginning you can tell that some thing is going to go wrong. As soon as Zel's dad dies things take a turn for the worst. 
Some of this book is really interesting while some of it isn't. What's interesting is the futuristic world, like how it's set up and everything, it sounds like a cool world. What isn't to interesting is how a lot of the twists and turns of this book were predictable, nothing to exciting that throws you way off. 
Most of the characters are really fascinating. All the side characters were really unique and well developed. There was a whole story to them each had a story and good depth, and the mutations only made them harder to forget. As for our main character Zelia she was rather boring. Not as well developed as the other characters I thought, and just so uninteresting. 
This book has a lot of good but also quite a bit of not so good. Though I found it a nice fast read that was fun, and at times exciting to read. 

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