This second book of the Mindjack series was as good as the first. Occasionally it dragged a little bit, but that was just a minor problem. The end is heartbreaking and made me immediately go buy the third book since I must know how this all turns out. Discussion about hating those different due to fear and rumor was well done and not preachy. I highly recommend Closed Hearts
4 (out of 5) Stars
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Drugs in the water have caused people to evolve to be able to communicate telepathically. But not everyone can. Most people become Readers around puberty, but some never change and remain Zeros. Kira thinks she is a Zero, but it turns out she is actually a Jacker, and a strong one at that. Jackers hide in plain sight, some pretending to be Readers and others pretending to be Zeros. Jackers can not only read other people’s minds, they can control other people and even kill them. Not long after discovering her own abilities, Kira learns the Feds are experimenting on Jackers. She becomes determined to expose what is going on no matter the cost to herself.
Maeve inherits a food truck from her aunt and everything is going great until the man in the next food truck over gets murdered. This sends Maeve down a crazy path of trying to figure out how her aunt paid for the truck and why there were obstacles to getting the proper permits and even whether her cause of death was natural or not. Meanwhile, the body count is increasing. Maeve needs to figure out just what’s going on before she becomes a statistic herself.
It is 1910, and Katherine Davis has graduated from medical school and taken a one-year position as the doctor at Hull House in Chicago. She throws herself into the work she loves while at the same time being courted by Douglas Gallagher, a wealthy man who isn’t quite what he seems. The year goes by quickly and soon she is on her way back to Laramie Wyoming excited to see family and friends and hopeful that she will be able to set up her own practice.
All children are born with a special power. Some show quickly, some don’t. Some are useful, some aren’t. Some even kill the child. For 15 years, Mira’s parents have kept her hidden behind the mist her father can create with his power. They decide to let the mist go and send her to school for her last school year. There she discovers a world she never realized existed. Students are being taught to become soldiers in the neverending war. More important than learning facts and figures, the kids are taught to use their gifts to get through three trials to ultimately determine which will be the leader of the graduating class.
The Mysterious Benedict Society reunites for an exciting trip with Mr. Benedict. The only problem is, by the time the kids arrive, Mr. Benedict and Number Two have been kidnapped leaving clues behind for the kids to find them. The children, of course, set off on an exciting adventure across the ocean to rescue their friends.
With a cure invented and a vaccine being manufactured, the citizens of New Caelum are on the edge of being able to move out of the city and into the rest of the country if they want. But then Governor Jackson, dictator of six outlying settlements, threatens President Layne to get back something he says is his that she has. A new threat appears when they discover the Governor is training attack dogs and making them sick with a disease similar to Bad Sam, making living weapons of mass destruction. West and Cricket must work together if they want all the remaining citizens of the United States to go back to how it was before Bad Sam appeared, and especially if they want their own happily ever after.
Cricket is back in the Boone Blackston settlement knowing her immunity has waned and she has been once again exposed to Bad Sam. The people of New Caelum are getting more restless wanting to leave the city and the people of the outlying settlements are angry that New Caelum purposefully sent Bad Sam into their communities. The vice president has been removed and West has taken his place at his mother’s side, but things still are not quite right. Knowing Cricket has two options to treat her potential case of Bad Sam, one that could save her and one that could kill her, West must find her and bring her back to the city once again to save her life, all the while struggling to calm the people inside his city and out.
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