#Review of The Taking by @kimberlyderting

A flash of white light . . . and then . . . nothing. 

When sixteen-year-old Kyra Agnew wakes up behind a Dumpster at the Gas ’n’ Sip, she has no memory of how she got there. With a terrible headache and a major case of déjà vu, she heads home only to discover that five years have passed . . . yet she hasn’t aged a day. 

Everything else about Kyra’s old life is different. Her parents are divorced, her boyfriend, Austin, is in college and dating her best friend, and her dad has changed from an uptight neat-freak to a drunken conspiracy theorist who blames her five-year disappearance on little green men. 

Confused and lost, Kyra isn’t sure how to move forward unless she uncovers the truth. With Austin gone, she turns to Tyler, Austin’s annoying kid brother, who is now seventeen and who she has a sudden undeniable attraction to. As Tyler and Kyra retrace her steps from the fateful night of her disappearance, they discover strange phenomena that no one can explain, and they begin to wonder if Kyra’s father is not as crazy as he seems. There are others like her who have been taken . . . and returned. Kyra races to find an explanation and reclaim the life she once had, but what if the life she wants back is not her own?

Kimberly Derting

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Biography

Kimberly is the author of the BODY FINDER series, THE PLEDGE trilogy, and THE TAKING (coming April 29th, 2014 from HarperTeen). She lives in the Pacific Northwest, the ideal place to write anything dark or creepy...a gloomy day can set the perfect mood. She lives with her husband and their three beautiful (and often mouthy) children who provide an endless source of inspiration.

My Review 4 Firefly Stars

This one was great.  I did have a few issues with it.  The first being that after a child has been gone for 5 years wouldn't you think that they would take her clothes as evidence when she comes back?  I really think that would be one of the first things that would happen.  Other than that I really wished that the split for this one would have been in the middle vs. after 200 pages.  It seemed a little off. 

But even with all of this it was AWESOME!!  I can't tell you to much but man this was so much better than a certain wave book that I read (I think last year)  Its a great blend of supernatural and scifi and should not be missed!! Fans of the movie Dark Skies will love this new take on missing kids and well ya I can't tell you lol.  

Go Into This One Knowing

That the split where it goes from you don't know what is going on to OMG THATS WHAT HAPPENED!!!!!!!!! Is way into the book a little over 200 pages to be exact.  So its somewhat a little slow but so much worth it.  There is somewhat of a love triangle but not really.  And yes there is a cliffhanger that I told KD that I hated her and she replied that she so earned that hate lol. 

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