Thank you for the opportunities to read this book. I have attempted it on a number of occasions but unfortunately I haven’t been able to get into it.

Let me preface my review by saying that I'm not normally into sci-fi/fantasy. However this one boasted a normal teen finding out she has supernatural powers all of a sudden and there was also a love triangle. I like YA, but the speech in this one was almost so juvenile at times that I wasn't sure I could continue. I also had to keep reminding myself to read this, which is never a good sign. It took nearly half the book for me to get into it but once I did I couldn't stop turning the pages. I couldn't figure Maddox out- was he a good guy or a bad guy? Where did he come from? How did he always show up where Drea was, and why did he never answer her questions? Who's voice is it that's familiar and always entering her dreams? And who is this Green-Eyed Man?! I have to say, after a very rocky start, I'm looking forward to the sequel.

This book in a nutshell:

► Love triangle galore
► Teenage angst
► Precious friendship
► Betrayals, betrayals, betrayals
► Intriguing premise
► Bad-ass fighting scenes
► Overly naive heroine
► Unpredictable plot developments
► TSTL moments
► Made me tear up one or two times
► Connection at first touch
► Cruel cliffy!

All in all, while this wasn't half bad and a definite page turner, I feel like this book is more suited for an audience about 15 years my junior.
Seems like I'm starting to finally outgrow the YA genre.

I really enjoyed this book about Alexandrea, Drea for short, and her interesting path towards discovering who she really is. Really hoping for a sequel! Very cool concepts that aren't overdone themes like other YA books you might read. Also some interesting plot twists that will leave you breathless! Great book.

I was instantly intrigued by Road to Eugenica.

Our MC is Drea Smith who has always been clumsy and an average student but after a car accident that kills her father she finds that things have changed and she has new abilities which has left her more than a little confused.

Drea’s best friend and secret crush is Dylan who is always on hand to lend support and a helping hand but so too is the new boy, Maddox who has quite a few secrets and often runs hot and cold.

When Drea suddenly learns to speak Spanish, surfs, has encyclopaedic knowledge and has strange visions she has mixed emotions; I found throughout the book that there was a lot happening and I ended up with more questions than answers. I am curious to learn more about the dimension of Eugenica.

It is difficult to review this book without spoilers and despite having a few issues, I did enjoy it and I’m curious to see where the author takes things in the next installment.

This book has an interesting premise, great characters and a number of plot twists and turns that kept things entertaining. It was slow to start but was written well and once the pace picked up things became quite exciting.

I am keen to read more books by this author.

Thank you to Entangled Publishing via Netgalley for the opportunity to read and review Road to Eugenica.

GIven the title, I was expecting a plot more in the field of genetic engineering, maybe even virtual reality. Parallel dimensions were surprising. I might have managed it better if there weren't so many non-sensical details. Like the statues at the restaurant.

The Road to Eugenica is the debut novel by A.M. Rose, and what a first book it is! I had a hard time putting it down. It grabbed me from the beginning and kept going, with all sorts of twists and turns. Drea was very easy to relate to. I feel like her a lot(especially when I was her age), well minus the super powers. The story brought out some feels too. There's a bit of a love triangle. She's a bit gullible at times, but who can she trust? Dylan? Maddux? Her Mom? No one? I won't tell! I will say that I can't wait for the next book, and Yes folks! There will be another book!

drea smith has always been a bit of a klutz and an average student. but after a car accident that kills her father she finds that things are different. she picks up surfing in an afternoon. she can suddenly speak spanish fluently. and she keeps having these dreams or visions of this other place.


with her best friend, dylan, who she's always been in love with. and new friend maddox, who seems to have a thing for her. drea is trying to make sense of all these crazy things. but the truth is something she could have never imagined. and the connections that maddox and dylan have to what is happening to drea makes everything complicated. maddox in particular blows hot and cold. you know he's more involved than he's saying, but then how his part in the story is resolved is so sudden, you feel like there were missed opportunities there.

at the end, not everything is fully revealed. and drea's journey is only just beginning by the end of road to eugenica. i'm honestly not entirely sure i understood the parallel realities and the politics of what happened and everything involving drea's parents.

mainly i'm confused about drea's dad. she has a biological father who appears only in letters or flashbacks maybe? and the man she grew up knowing as her dad, who was killed in the car accident. it seems like future installments are setting up to clarify things, but it doesn't really help me now.

**road to eugenica published on february 6, 2018. i received an advance reader copy courtesy of netgalley/entangled publishing (entangled teen) in exchange for my honest review.

I don’t think I’ve enjoyed a read this much in a long time. The author hooks you right away and sucks you into the story. Could not stop reading this once I started. This is a young adult romance with relatable characters. Our heroine, Alexandrea (“Drea”) goes from being an average, clumsy kid to a girl able to absorb knowledge by skim reading and have insta-understanding of languages almost overnight. This is only the start of the weirdness for her, though. Her love interest is torn between two boys. We have her longtime best friend, Dylan and the new boy in school, Maddox, for whom there’s a hot chemistry. There are quite a few plot twists and romance before we hit the end. What a ride!
Totally recommend this one if you’re in need of a great read.

I love a great Sci-Fi so when I read the summary of Road to Eugenica I was immediately intrigued.  I found myself unable to put this book down and when I was done, I wished I had the next book in my hand.  And I have to say, this isn’t listed as a series on Goodreads but there better be a second book…

Drea has always been accident prone and thankfully she has had her best friend, Dylan, to help her.  When suddenly Drea can speak multiple languages and is now super coordinated and able to fight, she starts to wonder what the heck is going on.  As her best friend, Dylan is always there to support her but when a new boy, Maddox, comes to school, she starts to connect with him and questions whether she wants something more with Dylan or with Maddox.

When something happens early on in the book that completely changes Drea’s world, things change drastically for her.  Not only is she dealing with these weird things, but she finds out her everyday life isn’t really what she thought it was and she needs to figure out what she is going to do and who she can trust.

I thought Rose did a fantastic job of creating this unknown world for Drea and seeing her navigate her way through and then ultimately realize what was going on and what she needed to do to survive.  Drea showed some growth from start to finish in this book and although she was faced with a decision around the Dylan/Maddox thing, that wasn’t the main focus of the book.

There really isn’t much more I can say as I don’t want to give anything away but consider putting this one on your to be read list.  It has plenty of action, a lot of twists and one heck of a cliffhanger that has me needing a follow up book in my hands right now.  If you are looking for a story that will have you wondering what will happen next and keep you turning the pages to find out, definitely consider checking this one out.  I will be watching for more from A.M. Rose and will waiting impatiently for the next book.

When I first heard of Road to Eugenica, read the synopsis, and checked out the cover, I never expected to love it as much as I did. I mean, don’t get me wrong, the book has a pretty cover and an intriguing synopsis, but neither of those do this justice – this book is freaking amazing and I loved it from the very first chapter, where I instantly decided that this could easily become a favorite series (yes, first chapter, no kidding). From the first page, even, I was hooked on the author’s writing and didn’t just want to keep reading, I felt like I needed to keep reading.

“I also know a warm is imminent. A war that’ll forever change the fate of Stuitus, the dimension I’ve called home.”

Alexandrea is a normal teenage girl – she goes to school, spends time with her parents (mostly her dad, with whom she has a close relationship), hands out with her best friend (who also happens to be her crush), Dylan, and can’t think of anything that makes her unique or strange. Except the fact that in her dreams, and all the places she goes, she can see a strange, green-eyed man who seems to haunt her, scaring her, and making her unsure of her own sanity.

“Other kids dream of monsters who want to kill them or giant snakes that want to ear them alive. Hell, I’ve had those dreams. But they don’t scare me like the Green-eyed man. I fight the images away and pray we won’t be seeing each other on the other side of sleep.”

Even though she has told Dylan about the green-eyed man and how he scares her, he doesn’t take her seriously. After Drea gets sick one day and spends a few days in bed, being taken care of by her parents, she has some even more bizarre dreams, and can’t wait to get out once she recovers. When she begs her dad to take her out for breakfast together one morning, a terrible accident changes everything for Drea and sets into motion a whole new chain of things that she can’t even explain.

Drea starts to get new abilities – for example, she once struggled in Spanish class, but now can easily carry on a conversation in the language as though it were her native tongue. She can also surf with no problems, and then there’s the new kid, Maddox, and the strange feelings that she has for him, despite the fact that Dylan keeps warning her to stay away from him.

When things start to escalate, and Drea finds herself on the run from the green-eyed man, she starts to learn some shocking truths about herself that she isn’t sure she is ready to deal with.

“This is too much. All these things running through my head don’t make any sense. I don’t even like Maddox, like that. I’m starting to feel like an imposter. Like I’m living someone else’s life. I’ve always been less than the understudy, more like the assistant’s assistant. I’m not the girl who jumps in the middle of a fight. Or the girl boys say things to like ‘let me make it up to you.'”

Drea’s character was so well written and I found myself loving her adventure from the first page. I don’t know what it is about her that I was so drawn to – whether it be the fact that she was independent, or the relationship she had with her dad, or the way she just describes things in general, but I felt so connected to her. I also liked Dylan’s character, and I thought he was a good friend to her, despite the fact that that seemed to be all he wanted to be, while Drea clearly wanted much more than that. Maddox was interesting as well, although a bit hard to figure out for the first half of the book. The second half of the book had me really interested in him, as well. It’s really rare that I find a book in which I love all the main characters, but Road to Eugenica really did.

The pacing in the first half of the book was a bit slower than I thought it would be, but it sets everything up for the second half, and the next book in the series. We really get an in-depth look at the characters, the settings, and the situation so we can fully appreciate it later, and it builds up as we go along.

While I’m not going to lie and say that all of it was full of twists that I couldn’t figure out (one big one was kind of easy for me to piece together, but I can’t say that it took away from the novel or anything, so there’s that), there were a few that I honestly didn’t see coming, including the very end of the book. Wow, I honestly never thought that would happen, and it did. It was kind of an explosive ending.

The cliffhanger the book left off at made me want more…I can’t wait until the next book in this amazing series comes out. I can’t remember the last time I enjoyed a book as much as I enjoyed Road to Eugenica, and if you’re a science fiction fan, I cannot recommend it enough.

"I am getting a lot of deja vu moments with this book. I feel like I have read a lot of the scenes from this book, in other books that I have recently read.
I might end up DNFing it, but I will give it another chance to hook me up in March.

I really wanna read, but I stopped, because there a lot roll up about why Drea see that green eye man, what Maddox are doing in her dreams and follow her like a stalker, why she has all this “know thing” after her dad’s death. I think if it was describe at least at the chapter 10, the story would be more interesting for me. The story has a good storyline, but some things should be clarified until the half of the book. I’m at chapter twenty and I can’t read more about “uhu Drea know things and have nightmares”. So, what? When I will know why it happens? At the end?

This is definitely an interesting and different type of book. The blurb sounded so fantastic. For the most part the book was absolutely awesome. The world building and storyline was unique and attention grabbing. The characters, mostly, were interesting. The first part of the story dragged by, for me. The second half kept my full attention. There was romance, suspense, mystery and so many twists and turns. Road To Eugenica turned out to be a really great story. I wish the beginning wasn't so slow (though I understand why it was) and I'm just really not into the whole love triangle thing (again I understand why it was there). All in all its a really fantastic debut! I'm excited for the second book! 
**received an advanced copy from netgalley**

An intriguing YA/Sci-fi tale from a debut author.

A quick read and very interesting.

Road to Eugenica by A. M. Rose is a young adult romance- science fiction book and part of the Entangled Teen series. I love this book, and I sure hope there are more books coming in this series This book has non stop action, twists and turns that kept me hooked until the end. Drea is trying to figure out why she has suddenly changed physically and mentally, and she will stop at nothing until she figures it out. Her best friend Dylan is there to help her every step of the way along with Maddox, a new friend who knows more that he is telling. I love this books unique story line, and strongly recommend it.

I received this book in exchange for a fair and honest review.

Such a good, different book. I really enjoyed it. It was fast paced, intriguing, and wonderful. This stiry was original and well written. The author really keeps you engaged. told in Drea's pov.

Drea, an ordinary girl, wakes up with the knowledge of en encyclopedia. This is the beginning of a story full of twist and turns and, of course, romance. I really liked reading this debut novel and think the author did a great job writing this book. Recommended. I chose to read this book and all opinions in this review are my own and completely unbiased. Thanks to NetGalley and Entangled Publishing!

4.5 stars!

This book took me on a trip with my emotions. I was feeling all sorts of things left and right. Anger, sadness, frustration,happiness. Can I have the next book yet???? I know it doesn't say that there is but the book just can't end like that!

Anyway. I'll stop fangirling and get into the actually review. In this book, we follow Drea, who after an accident, finds out she is super incredibly gifted. She, along with her lifetime BFF Dylan and newcomer, Maddox, goes on a journey to find out what exactly she is and if she can truly trust those around her.

Drea was a girl after my own heart. She was into photography (which I am too!), was unsure of herself (I found a report card from preschool that said I lacked self confidence....), and often followed her best friend, Dylan, around. I was unsure about her friendship with Dylan. He seemed kind of shady but after a while, I really did grow to love them together.

I also really adored the relationship she had with her dad. Too often, YA doesn't show enough healthy dad/daughter relationships. I have such fond memories with my dad (still making memories all the time!), such as driving around with him while he did errands, listening to NWA and old school Eminem and playing Mario Party on the N64 together. There seriously needs to be more healthy dad/daughter relationships in YA books.

This book portrays grief very well. I won't spoil anything but Drea loses someone and throughout the entire course of the book, the loss will hit Drea at different moments. I thought this was incredibly releatic. The loss of a loved one never truly leaves you. A. M Rose did an excellent job of portraying something so tough.

As for the world building, it was good. We only learned about the world from what Drea learned since it was in first person POV. The book was more focused on Drea and her journey of finding out who she was. I hope we get more of the world of Eugenica since we only got brief views of it. It sounds super cool and just my type of world. That is my one teeny tiny criticism, if you can even call it that.

Overall, this book was awesome! That last 20% and the epilogue had me at the edge of my seat. I had to set my Kindle down a few times and just stare into the nothing, because my brain couldn't even process what was going. It was that good! I can't wait for the next book, if there is one. (I seriously hope so!)

3.5 Stars

An entertaining first book into an I entice science fiction YA series that lacked capturing my attention in the beginning. Road to Eugenica massively improved as the story progressed, and I’m looking forward to what’s next. For those of you who are struggling to push through the first 20 percent, do it. You won’t be disappointed once the pace picks up.