read on my iPhone
2012
354 pgs.
YA Dystopia
Finished 5/21/818
Goodreads rating: 4.1 - 8485 reatings
My rating: 3.5
First line/s: "Everything changed on my fifth birthday while my parents were in the backyard hanging the "Happy Birthday Joclyn" banner that was surrounded by yellow and blue streamers."
My comments: I purposely didn't closely read the description of the book so that I would have no clue to what was going to happen. What a perfect decision, the entire story kept me on the edge of my seat and I couldn't wait to get back to it, finishing it in a single day. It was a pretty decent story, withholding any fantasy or magic until the second half of the book and then the shit really hits the fan! Interesting world building, but there are six more books in the series - that's too many for me, I think. It did get a little sluggish in places in the second half, but I'd still consider it a pretty decent read.
Goodreads synopsis: Joclyn Despain has been marred by a brand on her skin. She doesn't know why the mark appeared on her neck, but she doesn't want anyone to see it, including her best friend Ryland, who knows everything else about her. The scar is the reason she hides herself behind baggy clothes, and won't let the idea of kissing Ryland enter her mind, no matter how much she wants to.
The scar is the reason she is being hunted.
If only she knew that she was.
If only she had known that the cursed stone her estranged father sent for her 16th birthday would trigger a change in her. Now, she is being stalked by a tall blonde man, and is miraculously throwing her high school bully ten feet in the air.
Joclyn attempts to find some answers and the courage to follow her heart. When Ryland finds her scar; only he knows what it means, and who will kill her because of it.
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