#Review - A Girl From Forever by Yolanda McCarthy #YA #SyFy

Series: The Forever Institute # 1
Format: Kindle, 231 pages
Release Date: August 27, 2021
Publisher: Independently Published
Source: Kindle Unlimited
Genre: Young Adult / Science Fiction

Would you choose loyalty or love? What if you were wrong?

The secretive Forever Institute towers over London. Some say it's a cult, others call it mafia. To seventeen-year-old Fern, Forever is simply home, run by the scientists who created her. A home she’s never been allowed to leave.

Forever gave Fern everything. A body that will never age. Psychic abilities, if she can work out how to access them. A purpose: Fern will be part of a new dawn for humanity, although she’s never been told exactly how. Then Fern is contacted by a cryptic telepath from outside the Institute, and learns some dark truths. Children are being murdered, and Fern is in danger.

But Fern's new friend has secrets of his own…

A Girl From Forever is the first installment in author Yolanda McCarthy's The Forever Institute series. The Forever Institute is the only home Fern has ever known for all of her Seventeen years. Most of Fern's friends have Psychic abilities but not Fern or at least if she does they have not manifested yet. If they don't manifest, she could be considered to be expendable. Fern has never stepped foot outside of Forever as the scientist will not allow it. The only people or friends that Fern have, live at the institute just like her. Until one day she hears the voice of this guy in her head.

Rehan is a Psychic who has the ability to communicate with her telepathically. He works for a group who wants to destroy the Forever Institute and he tells Fern that Forever is murdering children. Once outside, Fern begins to question everything Forever told her, as well as whether or not she can fully trust Rehan and his people. Is he who he claims to be? When some dark secrets start to reveal themselves Fern begins to question everything she knows. She no longer knows who she can trust and who she can’t. Who is telling her the truth? The telepathic guy or Forever?

The more Fern starts to understand, the author tosses in a curve ball by introducing Fern to her biological mother which brings about an entire different sent of questions that needs to be answered. The scenes between Fern and Anna were perhaps the most emotional due to the fact that Anna was told a basket of lies about her daughter which makes having Agoraphobia even worse for her. Fern is an unlikely heroine who dislikes fighting and has no superpower. But she has initiative and intelligence. She could also be considered to be an innocent since Forever told her and her friends only what they wanted to know, and not what they need to know in order to survive life outside of the Institute. 

The author has written a novella called Forever a Villain which I may read eventually. Maybe right before the end of the year when I need a short read to complete my reading challenge for the year.  

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