Format: Ebook, 300 pages
Release Date: June 1st 2020
Publisher: Entangled: Teen
Source: Publisher
Genre: Young Adult / SyFy
They survived a plane crash.
They survived life on a deserted island.
They survived being hunted.
Now they must survive the truth—they are not who they think they are.
One minute they’re in Poland, subjected to gruesome tests they keep failing. No friends to support them. No family to claim them. No hope of ever living a normal life again.
Then suddenly, they’re trapped on an abandoned freighter in the middle of the ocean and forced to fight for survival. No food. No drinkable water. No way to get home. And strange memories of another life they don’t understand.
But how can they be living two separate lives, trapped in two separate places, at the same time? They’ll have to find the connection and uncover secrets that someone went to great lengths to keep hidden...if they’re going to survive long enough to find out who is behind it all.
Fractures is the second installment in author Alice
Reeds Echoes Duology. The story takes place where Echoes left off. As the story
opens, Fiona Wolf and Miles Echo think they are going back to the US where they
will live in California with different names while under the protection of an
FBI agent named McCarley. Their joy derails when they end up in Poland and back
into the hands of Briola Biotech. They are, after all, property. The chapters alternate
between the Briola villa in Poland and a stranded freighter in the middle of an
ocean.
Fiona is the current Florida State lightweight
kickboxing champion who was apparently not impressed with rich boy Miles who
has labeled himself as the useless heir. But, after surviving Florida, Berlin,
and an Island, the rest should be a walk in the park. Except that now they find
themselves lab rats by those in charge of Briola. They are also expected to go
by new names as the old Miles and Fiona have been officially labeled as legally
dead of a plane crash. If you've read Echoes, you know the book was told in the
first-person narrative by Fiona.
This time around, it is Miles who is the narrator
while Fiona is along for the ride. One of the challenges of not having read
Echoes is trying to figure out why I should care about either of these
characters. Fiona is head strong; Miles is fluent in 6 languages. Fiona's
stepmother and Miles' father sold them to be part of an experiment lab. Both
characters have been told that their mothers are dead. You also must realize
that memory is a key ingredient in both of these books. I have to say for the
record, that I did not read Echoes and therefore I had to educate myself as to
what happened via other people's reviews.
Thankfully, there are lots of people who have read
the first book so thank you to all of you. This entire series is a part of a
larger puzzle that Miles and Fiona along with a few friends must figure out
before something bad happens to them. I think it's fair to say that both Miles
and Fiona have issues with trusting authority figures especially after they
were treated like crap and sold. They also have some minor issues to deal with
thanks to Miles inability to trust anyone, including Fiona who would like to
take the entire organization down piece by piece.
The most interesting aspect of this story happens
later in the story as Miles and Fiona learns of the greater overall picture as
they try to figure out a way to escape. Miles brother Leon plays a minor role
in this book as well as Ivy Carver whose father saved Fiona on the Island. Miles
and Leon don't have the greatest connection thanks to Leon's actions. But, dig
deeper folks. Stay the course until the final page is turned to learn what's
really happening and why. The ending does wrap up things quite nicely and
leaves a warm feeling with the relationship between Fiona and Miles.
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