Altered
Author: Jennifer Rush
Publication Date: January 1st 2013
Publisher: Little, Brown Books for Young Readers
When you can’t trust yourself, who can you believe?
Everything about Anna’s life is a secret. Her father works for the Branch at the helm of its latest project: monitoring and administering treatments to the four genetically altered boys in the lab below their farmhouse. There’s Nick, Cas, Trev . . . and Sam, who’s stolen Anna’s heart. When the Branch decides it’s time to take the boys, Sam stages an escape, killing the agents sent to retrieve them.
Anna is torn between following Sam or staying behind in the safety of her everyday life. But her father pushes her to flee, making Sam promise to keep her away from the Branch, at all costs. There’s just one problem. Sam and the boys don’t remember anything before living in the lab—not even their true identities.
Now on the run, Anna soon discovers that she and Sam are connected in more ways than either of them expected. And if they’re both going to survive, they must piece together the clues of their past before the Branch catches up to them and steals it all away.
Altered, you were perfect in every way, my friend. Let's
check the criteria, shall we?
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4 hot guys in your basement? Check.
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Well rounded characters that suck you in but
hold their mysteriousness? Check.
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Mystery? Check.
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Badass fight scenes? Check.
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Secrets? Check.
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Betrayal? Check.
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On the run? Check.
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Danger?
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Romance? Check.
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Insta-Romance? Negative. (Though, you could
argue that it is, but, there's 1)
it's set after years of her finding the boys in the basement, so the romance
with Sam, is not insta- and then there's
that other reason.
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Love triangle? Halle-freaking-ujah. Negative.
