Adaptation by Malinda Lo | Rating: ★★★☆☆"People are always going to think something about you that isn’t real. It doesn’t matter what they think."
Adaptation gets to the bizarre twisty plot in the story quite fast: there are many plane crashes, believed to be caused by — wait for it — birds. It gives us barely a moment to feel into this plot, before the news feed breaks and our main character is left stranded at the airport with her teacher and another member of their debate team. It’s all very strange, but all very simple and it isn’t long before conspiracy theories start flying; each occurrence setting off a vast chain of tragic and frightening events throughout the country.
Although the novel can be slow and lacking of detail at times, one of the main issues being it moves too quickly and not always in the good sense, it does have some redeeming qualities. It is unique, in some ways but not wholly — I’ve not read something quite like it, yet. And my personal favorite? Although the novel starts with hints of a romance between the two students on the debate team, Reese and David, it progresses to a same sex relationship after we are introduced to the beautiful, fun and mysterious Amber.
How’s that for a new twist to the classic love triangle? Personally, this was the most important thing to our story, the fact that the love triangle represents a lesser touched sexuality. Bisexuality gets a bad wrap, but it does exist — so this was quite refreshing to see this common formula build up that way.
