Words I Write Crazy: Gypsy: Review

Thursday, July 10, 2014

Gypsy: Review

From Goodreads:
Inconsequential: not important or significant.
Synonyms: insignificant, unimportant, nonessential, irrelevant

In the world of genetic mutation, Gypsy’s talent of knowing a person’s age of death is considered a failure. Her peers, the other Cavies, have powers that range from curdling a blood still in the vein to being able to overhear a conversation taking place three miles away, but when they’re taken from the sanctuary where they grew up and forced into the real world, Gypsy, with her all-but-invisible gift, is the one with the advantage.

The only one who’s safe, if the world finds out what they can do.

When the Cavies are attacked and inoculated with an unidentified virus, that illusion is shattered. Whatever was attached to the virus causes their abilities to change. Grow. In some cases, to escape their control.

Gypsy dreamed of normal high school, normal friends, a normal life, for years. Instead, the Cavies are sucked under a sea of government intrigue, weaponized genetic mutation, and crushing secrets that will reframe everything they’ve ever been told about how their "talents" came to be in the first place.

When they find out one of their own has been appropriated by the government, mistreated and forced to run dangerous missions, their desire for information becomes a pressing need. With only a series of guesses about their origins, the path to the truth becomes quickly littered with friends, enemies, and in the end, the Cavies ability to trust anyone at all.

My Review:
Oh, I really enjoyed this book! It was different, and interesting, and fun, and yet dealt with some hard topics, and on top of that, it also had teenage girl problems! Kind of like a spider web, with all these branches, some thinning out, but starting at a common place in the centre!

I have read one of Trisha Leigh's books, Whispers in Autumn, and I really enjoyed it, and since it's been a while since I did read it, this book has inspired me to read the whole series, because I really enjoyed the writing, and I want to enjoy more of it!

I really enjoyed Gypsy as a character, because she has this power for knowing how old someone is when they die, which is something of a morbid gift, especially for the people that she's closest to, if they want to know, if she want's to know, and all the little things that go into a pretty close knit group like the Cavies.

Oh, the cliffhanger! Absolutely something that is driving me nuts, I would really love to have that second book right about now, because it just can't end there, and I want to know what's going to happen next! Because yeah, how can someone be in 2 places at one, and if they aren't, which one is "their" person?

Yeah, what a great book, and I can't wait for more books!!

Author: Trisha Leigh
Series: The Cavy Files #1
Read: July 9th, 2014
Source: YA Bound Book Tours Review Copy
Reason Why: Sounded good, and it's a Prequel & Sequel Challenge 2014 Book!
Publisher: Createspace
Published: May 13th 2014

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Bio:
Trisha Leigh is a product of the Midwest, which means it’s pop, not soda, garage sales, not tag sales, and you guys as opposed to y’all. Most of the time. She’s been writing seriously for five years now, and has published 4 young adult novels and 4 new adult novels (under her pen name Lyla Payne). Her favorite things, in no particular order, include: reading, Game of Thrones, Hershey’s kisses, reading, her dogs (Yoda and Jilly), summer, movies, reading, Jude Law, coffee, and rewatching WB series from the 90’s-00’s.

Her family is made up of farmers and/or almost rock stars from Iowa, people who numerous, loud, full of love, and the kind of people that make the world better. Trisha tries her best to honor them, and the lessons they’ve taught, through characters and stories—made up, of course, but true enough in their way.

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