Summary... As always, this book summary will contain some spoilers! Colours photo credit: "Pinterest". In “The Darkest Minds”, for unknown reasons, all of the children in the U. S. are either dead or have powers (they are classified based on the type of powers they have e.g. red for fire, orange for mind control, yellow for electricity, blue for moving objects with mind, and green for geniuses). Most of the kids in the U. S. are in camps…parents are told that the camps are supposed to rehabilitate their children but it doesn’t seem like anyone is really trying to figure out what happened and how to fix it. The kids who aren’t in camps are in hiding or on the run from skip tracers (adults who capture and turn children in to the camps for reward money). The main character is Ruby. She is taken to a camp called Thurmond after she accidentally erases her parent’s memories of herself (she is an orange). When Ruby arrives at the camp, she tells the officers that she is green since it appears that the officers are scared of oranges. Eventually all of the yellows, oranges, and reds are taken from the camp. After a bad reaction to “white noise” (a horrible sound that the officers use to control the kids), a Doctor named Cate (who is actually an undercover member of the Children’s League) tells Ruby that she is in danger since the officers will be doing more testing and will figure out that she is an orange. With the help of Cate, Ruby (along with a fellow orange named Martin) escapes from Thurmond. But, when Ruby finds out that the Children’s League doesn't actually help kids (like Cate said it did), Ruby runs away. Ruby finds 3 other kids (Chubs and Liam who are blue and Zu who is yellow) who have escaped from a different camp who are traveling in a car named “Black Betty” looking for a supposed safe haven for kids called East River (run by an orange called the “Slip Kid”). After a run in with a skip tracer in which Ruby has to use her powers, Liam, Chubs, and Zu discover that Ruby is an orange (and not green). After lots of close calls with skip tracers and the Children’s League, the 4 friends finally find the East River which is run by the President’s son Clancy a. k. a. the Slip Kid. Ruby starts to learn how to control her powers (which she previously tried to suppress) with the help of Clancy and Liam and Ruby start to fall in love. Eventually, Zu leaves the East River with her cousin (who also escaped from camp and found her way to the Slip Kid) to go and find their family. Unfortunately, Liam, Chubs, and Ruby discover that Clancy is not as nice as he initially seemed to be…he controls people with his powers. Shortly after, the East River is destroyed by the Government and Clancy escapes. Before they leave, Chubs uses Clancy’s computer to contact his parents as well as find the address of their friend’s Dad (he died during the escape from camp but gave Liam and Chubs a letter to deliver to his family). While Chubs is delivering the letter (which ends up being an awful letter), he is shot by the Father. In the end, Ruby ends up pushing a help device from the Children’s League (that she held onto just in case) in order to save Chub’s life. Since Ruby and Liam had to go to the League in order to save Chubs, Ruby does something drastic in order to help Liam. Review... This book is awesome…except for the end! I was so heartbroken at the end of the book that I am finding it hard to get motivated to read the rest of the series. I still have hope that things will get better for Ruby and Liam though :) I would definitely recommend this book to others; especially if you tend to enjoy dystopic fiction such as “The Hunger Games” and fantasy novels such as “Harry Potter”. This book is best suited for a male or female teen to adult audience who likes action/ adventure/ fantasy/ dystopic novels…with a little bit of romance! I can’t wait to find out what happens in the rest of the series (including the additional "Darkest Minds" novellas) and to see the movie (I finished reading the book after the movie left theaters and it is not out on DVD yet). Have you seen the movie? Let me know how it was in the comments down below! Photo credit: "IMDb". I gave this book a 4/ 5 butterflies rating because it was super engaging and exciting to read (even though it was a relatively long book, I read it really fast because I just had to know what happened to the characters)! Happy reading :) Book Rating: 4/ 5
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