{"id":44,"date":"2013-01-14T16:00:00","date_gmt":"2013-01-14T16:00:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/booksyalove.com\/?p=44"},"modified":"2013-01-14T16:00:00","modified_gmt":"2013-01-14T16:00:00","slug":"adaptation-by-malinda-lo-fiction-bird-disasters-brain-waves-conspiracy-love-and-mystery","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/booksyalove.com\/?p=44","title":{"rendered":"Adaptation, by Malinda Lo (fiction) – bird disasters, brain waves, conspiracy, love and mystery"},"content":{"rendered":"
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All flights grounded due to bird accidents.
Panic, chaos, cellphone systems overloaded<\/a>.
Desert car crash, coma, 27 days lost…<\/p>\n

Lucky their flight was delayed, but their headlong car trip from Phoenix to San Francisco lands Reese and David in a super-secret hospital near Area 51<\/a>– and it gets weirder.<\/p>\n

Extraterrestrials, conspiracy<\/a>, visions that Reese can’t explain and can’t erase, comfort in Amber’s arms, what is going on??<\/p>\n

As authors often do, Lo wrote Adaptation<\/i>\u00a0 while listening to playlists of songs that evoked different characters and scenes; listen to her 12 favorites here<\/a> and read her reasons for selecting each one.<\/p>\n

So, aliens among us or not??
**kmm <\/p>\n

Book info<\/b>: Adaptation \/ Malinda Lo. Little Brown, 2012. [author’s website<\/a>] [publisher site<\/a>] [book trailer<\/a>] <\/p>\n

My Recommendation<\/b>: A<\/span><\/span>ll flights cancelled due to multiple plane crashes with birds? After her dismal performance at the national tournament, now her debate partner David will be stuck with Reese even longer, as they drive from Phoenix to San Francisco \u2013 and it all goes crazy. <\/p>\n

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Speeding across the Nevada desert near Area 51, their rental car flips when a bird flies into it, and the teens wake up 27 days later in a secret military hospital. Confidentiality statements signed, they\u2019re taken home to their very anxious parents, and Reese\u2019s dreams (or nightmares) begin.<\/div>\n
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She sees doctors from the secret hospital in town \u2013 or does she? David doesn\u2019t call her anymore \u2013 did he ever realize that Reese had a crush on him? These dreams of dripping yellow, of a red here, a red there \u2013 after-effects of the concussion?<\/div>\n
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Meeting Amber was a welcome change, with her punky pink hair and her see-it-all attitude for the city she\u2019s visiting while she apartment-sits for her uncle. Reese is a bit mystified that Amber is attracted to such an average person as herself, but relishes the attention and affection.<\/div>\n
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Her best friend Julian helps Reese paint her bedroom to match the glossy reds and yellows of her dream-nightmare-dream, asks her more about Amber than she really knows, and answers the call for help when David finally contacts her to discuss his dreams, the same dreams, the same doctors seen where they shouldn\u2019t be.<\/div>\n
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How could her scars heal so quickly?<\/div>\n
Is Amber more than she seems? Has their relationship gone too far, too fast?<\/div>\n
Why are those doctors following Reese and David?<\/div>\n
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The city is different without bird song, without any birds anywhere\u2026\u00a0 \u00a0<\/span><\/span><\/span><\/span>\n<\/div>\n
(One of 6,000 books recommended on www.abookandahug.com<\/a>) Review copy and cover image courtesy of the publisher.<\/span><\/span><\/span><\/span><\/div>\n

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