Altered
Altered was a random audio pick from my library. I hadn't heard of the series but it sounded interesting. I actually was pleasantly surprised at how much I enjoyed this book. While there is a bit of teen infatuation, it isn't an insta-love situation and there is no love triangle. Yippee! The characters were well written and just mysterious enough that I wanted to know more about them. There were a couple of surprises in the book that made it that much better.Anna has become friends with four boys who live in an underground lab on her father's farm. She has fallen for Sam, the leader, pretty hard. When they plan an escape, her father pushes her to go with the boys. She has no understanding of why, only that she senses she would be in danger if she didn't. She embarks on a journey to help the boys find out who they are. It seems that Sam left himself clues should he ever want to find out about his past. I liked this aspect of the book. The clues were cleverly hidden and I had fun following them along with the characters. While the ending didn't really end on a cliffhanger, it did leave a lot of questions unanswered. I'm hoping they are addressed in the next book, Erased, which comes out sometime next year.
My only complaint about the book was the narrator of the audiobook. I didn't think she did a great job of narrating. She paused after every sentence and some of the character voices blended together so that conversations were hard to follow at times. If the next book is narrated by the same reader, I will probably read the print book as opposed to listening to the audio.
