Anderson, R. J. Quicksilver, 314 p. Carolrhoda Lab (Lerner), 2013. $18. Mature Content: G. Violence: G. Language: G (3 swears).
Tori Beauregard and her parents are on the run from the police officers who want the truth about her disappearance and the doctors who want to run tests to figure out why she is so different from the average person. Now she is Niki and she hopes that not only can the humans not find her, but also Mathis, who just considers her a half blood experiment that only exists for him to study. But now Stephan Faraday has found her and has an idea how to shut down the relay for good – perhaps saving Tori from being whisked away to Mathias’s intergalactic lab and protecting Allison forever from her synesthesia that is only worsened by Tori’s alien presence.
Reader’s who enjoyed the alien twist in Ultraviolet, will enjoy learning more about Tori and reading about her efforts to thwart Mathias. If they want to learn more about Allison, however, they will have to wait until the very end of the book. I certainly became more sympathetic towards Tori, but I am not as enamored with this sequel. It’s a hard sell to change the genre so dramatically right at the end of the first book and then leave that character almost completely out of the next.
MS, HS – OPTIONAL. Cindy, Library Teacher
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