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A review by howling_good_reads
The Vanishing Girl by Laura Thalassa
3.0
This definitely got better as I kept reading.
There were quite a few strange things happening at the start but it made sense later on.
Things pick up when Ember is confronted with the truth that her genes were modified at birth and that's the reason she's been able to teleport in her sleep. Her parents have been trying to hide her, but the American government has finally found her and have come to collect her so she can fulfil their purpose for her as a spy in their project missions.
She also meets her 'Pair', her genetically modified partner Caden. Caden has been in the project longer than most, being handed over at thirteen by his father.
This is the second book I've read by Laura Thalassa where there's been no description of what the main character looks like. Granted there's a picture of her on the front cover of this book but there's no physical description of Ember written anywhere. We get good descriptions of other characters just not her. (Unless I missed or forgot them in both this and Rhapsodic, The Bargener series.)
Maybe that's something the Author does on purpose, so I can imagine her as I like but my mental image keeps changing all the time.
The thing that annoyed me was the horrible way Ember was treated.
She's been generally modified from birth to serve the government in spy missions and she has no say in the matter, they own her.
So when she gets to her special spy training school to learn she's just expected to know everything already. Her instructors are all like why don't you know this, or I expected better?
She's treated like a robot that they've programmed through her genes.
Minor spoilers ahead...
The parts I enjoyed the most were the teleporting. I liked that the teleporters only had ten minutes to complete there missions, it wasn't dragged out and things always progressed quickly.
I also liked the meetings with Adrian. He's the son of one of a Scientists who helped change the genes in Ember and others like her and hope he plays a bigger role in the next book.
But it was the ending that really won me over and I'll definitely be reading the next book, there's no way I can't find out what happens next!!
There were quite a few strange things happening at the start but it made sense later on.
Things pick up when Ember is confronted with the truth that her genes were modified at birth and that's the reason she's been able to teleport in her sleep. Her parents have been trying to hide her, but the American government has finally found her and have come to collect her so she can fulfil their purpose for her as a spy in their project missions.
She also meets her 'Pair', her genetically modified partner Caden. Caden has been in the project longer than most, being handed over at thirteen by his father.
This is the second book I've read by Laura Thalassa where there's been no description of what the main character looks like. Granted there's a picture of her on the front cover of this book but there's no physical description of Ember written anywhere. We get good descriptions of other characters just not her. (Unless I missed or forgot them in both this and Rhapsodic, The Bargener series.)
Maybe that's something the Author does on purpose, so I can imagine her as I like but my mental image keeps changing all the time.
The thing that annoyed me was the horrible way Ember was treated.
She's been generally modified from birth to serve the government in spy missions and she has no say in the matter, they own her.
So when she gets to her special spy training school to learn she's just expected to know everything already. Her instructors are all like why don't you know this, or I expected better?
She's treated like a robot that they've programmed through her genes.
Minor spoilers ahead...
The parts I enjoyed the most were the teleporting. I liked that the teleporters only had ten minutes to complete there missions, it wasn't dragged out and things always progressed quickly.
I also liked the meetings with Adrian. He's the son of one of a Scientists who helped change the genes in Ember and others like her and hope he plays a bigger role in the next book.
But it was the ending that really won me over and I'll definitely be reading the next book, there's no way I can't find out what happens next!!