Shangmin Wu Wu itibaren La Corchuela, Badajoz, Spain itibaren La Corchuela, Badajoz, Spain

Spoiler Alert!!! No doubt about it, the plot for this book was really interesting from start to finish--I was speed reading to make it to the end of the 500 some pages and did it in two days! The reason it is a three star for me (though I might end up changing it to a 4) is that there were other things that didn't quite sit right with me. Issues: Too long! This book, in my opinionm would have been improved by being a good 100-200 pages shorter. I thought Caine got a little ridiculous toward the end (and that whole, 'we're brothers!' is a bit cheesy). I get that he has mommy issues but that doesn't really explain to me why he acts the way he does in the final "battle". Orc shows some remorse, Drake is a total sociopath, Diana admits she's a "bad girl" but still tries to get Caine to call the cyotes off the kids. But it's kind of like Caine is there simply to be Sam's nemesis. The final battle also ends up being a little bit of a letdown, though that may be just me being picky or having different expectations. A lot of these YA books where the authors start out knowing that they will be making them into a series are a little anticlimatic or frustrating for me because there is no real sense of conclusion--only more questions that need answering and bad guys that are never truly beaten. And then I have to wait for the sequel! Arg :P Loves: the whole idea of the autistic kid being the most powerful one. The cyotes. The razor sharp teeth waiting on the other end of the blink. Sam's struggle with being a leader. Albert running the MacDonald's. Lana's storyline. I think it's a three overall because it was definitely good (I'll definitely be reading the sequel!) but when I look back I didn't completely 100% love it.

I cry every time I read it.

I read this a while ago for my English class, and while I did enjoy it, I found it a little bit boring, and I did not really understand it at first. I couldn't really understand what it was about until the very end. However, I believe this book is an extremely high quality one, with an interesting spin on the time of apartheid in South Africa.