Week 29 Reviews: Anomaly, Luminary

From Goodreads:
Thalli has fifteen minutes and twenty-three seconds left to live. The toxic gas that will complete her annihilation is invading her bloodstream. But she is not afraid.

Thalli is different than others in The State. She feels things. She asks questions. And in the State, this is not tolerated. The Ten scientists who survived the nuclear war that destroyed the world above believe that emotion was at the core of what went wrong—and they have genetically removed it from the citizens they have since created. Thalli has kept her malformation secret from those who have monitored her for most of her life, but when she receives an ancient piece of music to record as her community's assigned musician, she can no longer keep her emotions secreted away.

Seen as a threat to the harmony of her Pod, Thalli is taken to the Scientists for immediate annihilation. But before that can happen, Berk—her former Pod mate who is being groomed as a Scientist—steps in and persuades the Scientists to keep Thalli alive as a test subject.


The more time she spends in the Scientist's Pod, the clearer it becomes that things are not as simple as she was programmed to believe. She hears stories of a Designer—stories that fill her mind with more questions: Who can she trust? What is this emotion called love? And what if she isn't just an anomaly, but part of a greater design?

From Goodreads:
She was an anomaly with a death sentence. Now she's free.

Thalli was scheduled for annihilation. She was considered an anomaly--able to experience emotions that should have been eradicated by genetic modification. The Scientists running the State couldn't allow her to bring undue chaos to their peaceful, ordered world. But seconds before her death, she is rescued.

Now Thalli is above ground in a world she thought was destroyed. A world where not even the air is safe to breathe. She and her three friends must journey across this unknown land, their destination a hidden civilization. It's their only chance of survival.

Broken and exhausted after an arduous journey, they arrive in New Hope, a town that survived the nuclear holocaust. When Thalli meets the people there--people actually "born" to "families"--her small world is blown wide open.

Soon after their arrival to New Hope, the town comes under attack. She has escaped imminent death, but now Thalli is thrust into a new fight--a fight to save her new home. Does she know enough about this world of emotions, this world of chaos, to save not only herself, but the people she has come to love?

My Review:
Oh, I really enjoyed these books! From Thalli, who is an "anomaly" in her little community, to onwards, where she finds people more like her, and her journey to that, that was just incredible, and yeah, these were 2 really great books!

It took me a while to get to theses books, mostly because I was so freaking busy, but yeah, I did get to them, and boy am I glad that I did, because I really enjoyed them, they were just a great dystopian books, even if I hated the world that they were in.

Loved how this is a Christian novel, how God is the "Designer" and yeah, how that was woven into these books, introduced from the very beginning, that was a very strong element throughout the series, that was just really good, I really enjoyed it!

I really enjoyed these books, the triangle that came about in Luminary, what with Alex, and Berk, and how she did feel things for both guys, and yeah, that's a hard choice that's ahead for her, because these are really great guys!

I really enjoyed these, now to read the last book!

Author: Krista McGee
Series: Anomaly #1, 2
Read: July 13th, 13th, 2014
Source: NetGalley
Reason Why: Sounded good, and Luminary for a review tour, and they're broth 2014 Dystopia Books and Prequel & Sequel Challenge 2014 Books!
Publisher: Thomas Nelson Publishers
Published: July 9th 2013, January 7th 2014

Anomaly:

5/5 Hearts

5/5 Books

4.5/5 Stars

Luminary:

5/5 Hearts

5/5 Books

4.5/5 Stars