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The Darkest Minds (The Darkest Minds, #1)

Alexandra Bracken

Start date: February 1, 2018

Finish date: February 25, 2018

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Mar 24, 2016 Elena Salvatore rated it it was amazing

Shelves: girl-protagonist, special, emotional-rollercoaster, didn-t-end-with-ship, 1st-person-pov, re-read, couldn-t-stop-reading, one-sitting-read, on-my-tbr-4ever, ended-abruptly

This review has been hidden because it contains spoilers. To view it, click here. Finally an author who's writing is just so damn satisfyng reading. It just seems right!

Ok I loved this book so much that I never wanted it to end.
The charachters were all so lovable and I want them all just to make it out ok and be happy!

There is something going around the states where children just drop dead from one day to another.
The other kids are afraid and the grown ups treat the whole thing like it's just another common virus spreading around but they also seem to be all afraid. Of what t Finally an author who's writing is just so damn satisfyng reading. It just seems right!

Ok I loved this book so much that I never wanted it to end.
The charachters were all so lovable and I want them all just to make it out ok and be happy!

There is something going around the states where children just drop dead from one day to another.
The other kids are afraid and the grown ups treat the whole thing like it's just another common virus spreading around but they also seem to be all afraid. Of what tho? Their own children?
Well thats absurd... right?

Things getting even worst for Ruby when she wakes up one day and her parents don't remember her and then call someone to pick her up. Unfortunatelly the people that are comming for her aren't there to help her but to protect others from her. That means chaining her up, stuffing her in a bus full with other restrained kids and taking her away to a hellhole.

She finds out that she and all the other children have something in common. A supernatural ability to twist someones mind, start fires, mess with electricity, be super smart or have telekinisis.
So they sort them all into groups depending on their powers. (Orange, Red, Yellow, Green or Blue)
She also learns that the more dangerous are the Orange ones which she seems to be a part of, but from sheer piece of luck no one seems to know so she manipulets someone to pass of as a green where she tries to make herself not stand out.

That all till one day after 6 years, when an alarm goes off and she is exposed as what she truly is.
Thankfully she get's to escape before they can kill her like all the other Orange's over the years.
But the people that save her are as suspicious as the one that kept her locked away all that time, so she runs for it at the first try she get and she stumbles upon a group of kids who will help her escape everyone who wants to harm her.

Even tho I would have loved to see more of the powers that the kids possess. I mean if I had supernatural powers, afraid or not, I would use them every chance I got. But these children are basically ignoring them.

I really loved all the characters but more of all of them Liam!
Oh Liam... you precious Cinnamon Roll.... ...more

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Apr 03, 2018 Kaya Lynch rated it really liked it

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4.5

Oh my crabby patty potato sauce! That's literally all I can say to describe what a ride that was.
The Darkest Minds just about killed me inside not once, not twice, but three times. What an amazing dystopian, I hope the movie does it justice!

Characters
The characters were absolutely fantastic in this one. Ruby is strong, but has her own issues to work through. Yet, she never gives up on hope and love despite what she suffers and I love that. Chubs was great too, don't get me wrong, anyone who d ...more

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