Author: Sophie Littlefield
Pages: 293
Publication: October 12, 2010
Publisher: Delacorte Books for Young Readers
Summary taken from goodreads:
There isn’t much worth living for in Gypsum, Missouri—or Trashtown, as the rich kids call the run-down neighborhood where sixteen-year-old Hailey Tarbell lives. Hailey figures she’ll never belong—not with the popular kids at school, not with the rejects, not even with her cruel, sickly grandmother, who deals drugs out of their basement. Hailey never knew her dead mother, and she has no idea who her father was, but at least she has her four-year-old foster brother, Chub. Once she turns eighteen, Hailey plans to take Chub far from Gypsum and start a new life where no one can find them.
But when a classmate is injured in gym class, Hailey discovers a gift for healing that she never knew she possessed—and that she cannot ignore. Not only can she heal, she can bring the dying back to life. Confused by her powers, Hailey searches for answers but finds only more questions, until a mysterious visitor shows up at Gram’s house, claiming to be Hailey’s aunt Prairie.
There are people who will stop at nothing to keep Hailey in Trashtown, living out a legacy of despair and suffering. But when Prairie saves both Hailey and Chub from armed attackers who invade Gram’s house in the middle of the night, Hailey must decide where to place her trust. Will Prairie’s past, and the long-buried secret that caused her to leave Gypsum years earlier, ruin them all? Because as Hailey will soon find out, their power to heal is just the beginning.
This gripping novel from thriller writer Sophie Littlefield blazes a trail from small-town Missouri to the big city as Hailey battles an evil greater than she ever imagined, while discovering strengths she never knew she had.
2 STARS - IT WAS OKAY
MY REVIEW:
I couldn't finish this book. I think it's mainly because I'm tired of reading books where the main character finds out that she has special powers and spends the majority of the book figuring out how to use them and why no one told them they had powers in the first place.
However, it's not only because of the overused plot; the book was just plain in general. There was hardly anything original about the book. At least as far as I got in it.
The writing's not bad, and the hero...moreI couldn't finish this book. I think it's mainly because I'm tired of reading books where the main character finds out that she has special powers and spends the majority of the book figuring out how to use them and why no one told them they had powers in the first place.
However, it's not only because of the overused plot; the book was just plain in general. There was hardly anything original about the book. At least as far as I got in it.
The writing's not bad, and the heroine isn't useless, but the plot was just wasn't engaging enough to keep my attention. I might pick the book back up again later whenever I get out of my overused plot funk.
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