PERSEFoNE (6 books in series)
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review 1: Michelle Gagnon's Don't Turn Around had me hooked from page one. The novel is fast-paced and suspenseful, with interesting characters. Set in future Boston, the world is dealing with a deadly disease that strikes teenagers, PEMA. Noa, the main character, is a throw-away kid wh...
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review 1: If books where the characters have to use their wits & computer knowledge to escape bad guys are what you like then this is the book for you. Now wakes up on an operating table with no idea of how she got tHere. Peter's door is kicked in by men in black & all they take is his com...
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review 1: Didn't realize there was a first book, but I wish I would have read it. However, even without reading the first book I could catch on to what was going on pretty quickly. A group of so called terrorists were capturing kids and operating on them in secret labs. They were workin...
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review 1: I don't always expect a lot from the second book in a trilogy because it seems like they're often nothing more than a bridge to the next one, and don't stand really well on their own. This book, however, did a pretty good job of that. The characters remained consistent and intere...
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review 1: I find this book to be good, but not really all that great. Noa and Peter are pretty well made characters, but I do have some slight problems with them. Some parts of the plot seem to happen just for the sake of happening, and I didn't feel all that sad whenever a character was g...
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review 1: In regards to my 3 stars (2.5-3), I'm obviously in the minority here. I was riveted by the first book in the series, but I was completely disappointed by book two. I desperately wanted to find a new series for my students to cling to--one that I could really "talk up" come first ...