The Darkest Minds by Alexandra Bracken | Rating: ★★★★★“He’s so busy looking inside people to find the good that he misses the knife they’re holding in their hand.”
For me, between this and Splintered by A.G Howard, this novel is one of the best available in young adult literature these days. I’d heard a small buzz of hype about it on Tumblr last year and decided to purchase it on a whim to check it out. And honestly, I’m glad I did — not only is it entertaining, it’s definitely written a lot better than some current YA titles.
It took me such a small frame of time to read it because I didn’t want to put it down. There’s something about the novel that keeps you reading, keeps you glued to the story, because I honestly did not want to put it down until I reached the last page. I just had to know what happened.
The Darkest Minds was very suspenseful. There was a lot of action in it and it kept the novel all the more interesting when tied into the mysterious disease which has taken the lives of so many kids in this fictional world. With the controlling government and the surviving kids there were only two options: one being they were locked away at a, and I quote, rehabilitation camp (which was horrendous) and the second option meant living a life on the run and in constant fear.
It's nuts.
