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?
When I read this, I was excited. It sounds like the perfect blend of a number of elements that I usually find appealing. Unfortunately, it didn’t quite come off as successfully as I’d hoped.
There was nothing particularly bad about this, but it didn’t live up to my expectations. It really does have the potential to be a great book; at the moment, it’s far from perfect.
I wanted to know more about Julia’s family and the past of the group. I wanted some different perspectives to offer some variety. I would have been happy to have at least some of my questions about the skills Julia has and John’s role in the group answered…
Thank you to NetGalley for allowing me to read this prior to publication. Due for release in October 2017 I can’t help but hope that there’ll be some changes made before it’s released.