Select - Marit Weisenberg
- Amber Ray
- May 7, 2017
- 2 min read
Blurb
Coming from a race of highly-evolved humans, Julia Jaynes has the perfect life. The perfect family. The perfect destiny. But there’s something rotten beneath the surface—dangerous secrets her father is keeping; abilities she was never meant to have; and an elite society of people determined to keep their talents hidden and who care nothing for the rest of humanity. So when Julia accidentally disrupts the Jaynes’ delicate anonymity, she’s banished to the one place meant to make her feel inferior: public high school. Julia’s goal is to lay low and blend in. Then she meets him—John Ford, tennis prodigy, all-around good guy. When Julia discovers a knack for reading his mind, and also manipulating his life, school suddenly becomes a temporary escape from the cold grip of her manipulative father. But as Julia’s powers over John grow, so do her feelings. For the first time in her life, Julia begins to develop a sense of self, to question her restrictive upbringing and her family prejudices. She must decide: can a perfect love be worth more than a perfect life?
Review
I wished for this on a whim after reading the blurb on NetGalley. To my surprise I was granted it. Before I started reading this I looked at a few reviews. It was dumb, I know. I did it nonetheless. The reviews I saw didn't reflect the book I read. Hell, I don't think we were actually reading the same book. This is a debut novel from Marit Weisenberg and in my opinion its a great start. I absolutely loved this book! It was such a unique story and the author really kept the momentum the entire time. There honestly never really was a dull moment. I had no moments where I wanted to skip ahead to see if any outcomes were going to change or if something was going to happen. (I have no patience) I don't think I've read anything like this before. I saw that there were people that DNF or lost interest at 30%, I honestly don't understand how that happened.
I feel it really kept true to the blurb released with the book. There honestly is nothing misleading about the blurb to what you'll read. I have read books where it is completely not what you read from the blurb. It's written with a fast pace, its really an easy read in my opinion. It's one that you can put down and easily pick back up and get into the rhythm of it.
It's not like the YA's of late with female leads. There really is no woe is me or too ugly for this. No one will like me for that. What's not to like about any of this? It is not like the other millions of YA novels out right now that all have the same story just different filler.