KATHERINE APPLEGATE is the author of many books for children and young adults, include the award-winning "Home of the Brave." Her husband, MICHAEL GRANT, is the author of the "BZRK "series and the bestselling "Gone "series. Together they wrote the popular Animorphs series. They live in Northern California with their two children and numerous unmanageable pets.
Holter Graham, winner of "AudioFile"'s 2008 Best Voice in Science Fiction & Fantasy for Sherrilyn Kenyon's "Acheron," is a stage, television, and screen actor. He has recorded numerous audiobooks, including much of Sherrilyn Kenyon's bestselling "Dark-Hunter "series. The winner of multiple "AudioFile" Earphones Awards, he has also read works by Scott Turow, Dean Koontz, C. J. Box, and Stephen Frey.
Jenna Lamia is the acclaimed narrator of Mary E. Pearson's "The Adoration of Jenna Fox," which won a YALSA Amazing Audiobooks for Young Adults award, and Carol Lynch Williams's "The Chosen One," for which Jenna received the 2010 solo narration (female) Audie Award.
"The husband-wife team behind the Animorphs series returns with the first installment of an entertaining saga that pits smart teens against high-tech evildoers and bionic skullduggery."--Kirkus
Eleventh-grader Evening Spiker (E.V. or Eve for short) has grown up with the wealth and privilege that go with being the only child of Terra Spiker, the stereotypically icy and no-nonsense CEO of Spiker Biopharmaceuticals. When Eve's leg is severed in an accident, the company clinic comes in handy, and when recovery gets to be a bore, there's the human simulation program to play with-Eve's mother asks her to "design the perfect boy" with it. A young orderly, Solo, is easy on the eyes, but he also prods Eve to acknowledge truths she'd rather ignore, like how fast her reattached leg is healing. Solo knows a lot about Spiker, more than a guy who pushes the coffee cart ought to. Why? The husband-and-wife team of Grant and Applegate (the Ani-morphs series) knows how to keep the questions and the action coming as they alternate (mostly) between Eve and Solo's perspectives. Observant, smart, and unencumbered by emotion, this is a tasty read that readers will devour in a flash. Lucky for them, there's a sequel planned. Ages 13-up. (Oct.) (c) Copyright PWxyz, LLC. All rights reserved.
Gr 7 Up-The accident was horrific. Seventeen-year-old Evening Spiker should have lost her leg, if not her life. But mere hours after being rushed to the hospital, her mother, the uber-powerful owner of Spiker Biopharmaceuticals, arranges for her to be transported to the SB Campus. Evening meets a mysterious boy named Solo, who fights his fascination with her even as he plots to destroy her mother, and she is given a fun assignment to do while she heals (at an unbelievably accelerated speed). It is to create the perfect guy-literally. Evening and Solo take turns narrating the story, along with Adam, her science project, and their voices ring absolutely true. Everything about this book is pitch-perfect: plot, characters, pace, everything. It is funny, thought-provoking, emotionally wrenching, romantic, and, above all, entertaining. It includes some violence, references to alcohol, drugs, and sex, but nothing overt. Ethical and moral questions abound and will spark spirited debate. It'll make 'em laugh. It'll make 'em think. You may want to buy multiples.-Mara Alpert, Los Angeles Public Library (c) Copyright 2012. Library Journals LLC, a wholly owned subsidiary of Media Source, Inc. No redistribution permitted.
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