I was pleasantly surprised by this book. I wasn't sure what to expect going in. I will say I don't like love interests and I really dislike love triangles. I was disappointed that is included in this story. I also caught on to some things right away that the characters didn't and I'm unsure if it was intentional. Overall, I thought the characters could use a little more development but I really liked how they interacted with each other.

I loved this book so much! I loved the characters and the world! I would and have recommended this book to all my friends.

very easy to read with nice characters but sadly an utterly predictable and too well known plot that i wish the author would have made just a little different but overall not a bad book and a very fast read.

This book was honestly much better than I expected. It’s a group of kids who find out they have super abilities and try to avoid being hunted down. I would very likely read the second book, hoping that it would be technically better.

It felt very Sky High meets The Midnighters (trilogy by Scott Westerfeld).

Rating: 3.5/5

Faye’s stepmother drops her off at her grandmother’s after her dad dies. But Faye is not-your-normal-girl™️ because she has visions of people’s deaths. Sometimes theses deaths haven’t happened yet and sometimes they happened years before, but Faye has never been able to stop them from happening. Her first day at the new school, she has another vision, stronger and clearer than any she’s had before. Things get stranger when the girl in her vision, Rachel, introduces herself at school and they become friends. Faye has to figure out how she’ll prevent Rachel’s murder while fitting in at the new school.



Diversity: +4
Race/Ethnicity: +1 (Rachel=quarter-Japanese?), +1 (Jacob=half-black?)
Gender: +1 (Author), +2 (Faye, Rachel, Hannah, Lucy)
Neurodiversity: -1 (Lucy’s mother)


What I liked:
-I tend to enjoy stories about teenagers coming into powers they don’t know how to control. I loved how different all of the powers were and how they develop and really want to know more about everyone.
-Beautiful female relationships! They were friends, built each other up, and supported each other. We also had examples of girls fighting with each other (over a boy :/ sigh), but that was very clearly not acceptable and turned out to be more complicated than that anyway. While the boys sometimes fell flat and one-dimensional, all of the girls were well-developed and had personalities.
-The twist at the very end. It was one of the things that actually did a good job tying things together and made me want to figure out what happens next.
-Morally gray characters. Good and evil are always difficult to define and I liked how it was tackled. I would definitely have liked to learn more about the ancestors (The Families) and the Seekers of Evil (although that is such a meh name).


What I didn’t like:
-Crazy as an adjective. It’s used off-handedly to describe Faye when people didn’t believe her visions and to describe Lucy’s mom:
Her mom was nuts by the end. Sometimes she used to say things like, ‘they’re coming to get me.’ Sometimes she’d scream at Lucy to stay away from her for no reason.

If Faye didn’t like being called crazy for being different, I would have hoped that she would have pushed more against labeling Lucy’s mom as crazy. Given what we know by the end of the book, Lucy’s mom was probably not mentally ill; she was most likely stressed and people were probably out to get her. So many times people get written off as “crazy” and no one challenges why and it turns out they were right in the end. We need to address this trope! I wish someone had vindicated her memory in the end.
-Not-your-normal-girl™️ Faye. She doesn’t know how pretty or brave she is. She has a different name and comes to a new school where everyone is into her. She’s a size four with a blue streak in her blond hair (which apparently makes her super BA). She fits the chosen one trope, but honestly feels plain and is less interesting than literally any other girl in the story.
-The romance just felt like too much was going on. At one point it was like a love-quadrangle.
-The world-building and continuity didn’t make sense all of the time. It felt very deus ex machina where everything just happened to work out no matter what. I would have liked to learn more about their powers and how they work, but I’m assuming it will be better addressed in the next novel. There were also several spelling and grammar mistakes throughout.

A clean read that reminds me of X-Men. Faye has para-normal abilities that ostracize her from her classmates. She is given a new chance when she moves to her Grandmother's house in Astoria, Oregon. Unfortunately, she has a premonition of someone's death. Even more unfortunately, that person is the first person she meets at her new school.

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2.5 stars.

Faye has an ability where she can see someone at the moment of their death, and when she sees the murder of someone she knows, she has to decide whether to tell her or not, and try to stop her murder from happening.

I'm a little disappointed, this story started out so intriguing, and had so much potential, but there were a few things that didn't work well.

Firstly I noticed several continuity errors, which is jarring and ruins the flow of the story.

Also Faye and her friends seem to make huge leaps in knowledge from one or two flimsy clues. For example (view spoiler) You can see the author is trying to keep the story moving, but it really could be handled more smoothly.

I was unsure if I wanted to give this 2 or 3 stars, but I figured since I skimmed through the later 2/3rds of it, 2 stars is probably more accurate. I wasn't necessarily a poorly written book [although the author doesn't know the difference between cue and queue, which I found very annoying in a nit-picky kind of way], but the pacing was very off and I feel like this is one of those YA books that doesn't translate well to an adult readership. The book and characters seemed very juvenile to me and I swear I started having Twilight flashbacks when the plot began revolving around dress shopping, school dances, and love triangles. The dialogue also felt rather forced [no one is trying to be that witty literally all the time, seriously no one talks like that] and I thought they figured things out about their magic and the murder plot way too easily, connecting things I don't think anyone would think were related in real life. All in all it was a decent effort for a first book, but I did not enjoy reading it. I would possibly recommend it to teen readers though.

I loved the concept. Kids having abilities, passed down through generations, its right up my alley. There were way to many similarities to Twilight for me to really enjoy this book as much as I would have wanted too. I also didn't get the sense of Astoria that I would have hoped, since I'm from that area and know the lay of the land. I also felt that there was this big build up to the Seeker's of Evil, but they were kind of brushed to the side to make room for a different ending. I hope they come back with a larger roll in the sequel. With that being said, I gave this book four stars for originality and content. It held me captive through the whole story and gave me goosebumps at the end.