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Title: Gypsy
Author: Trisha Leigh
Genre: YA Sci-Fi
Reviewer: Aly
Book Blurb:
Inconsequential: not important or significant.
Synonyms: insignificant, unimportant, nonessential, irrelevant
In the world of genetic mutation, Gypsy’s talent of knowing a person’s age of death is considered a failure. Her peers, the other Cavies, have powers that range from curdling a blood still in the vein to being able to overhear a conversation taking place three miles away, but when they’re taken from the sanctuary where they grew up and forced into the real world, Gypsy, with her all-but-invisible gift, is the one with the advantage.
The only one who’s safe, if the world finds out what they can do.
When the Cavies are attacked and inoculated with an unidentified virus, that illusion is shattered. Whatever was attached to the virus causes their abilities to change. Grow. In some cases, to escape their control.
Gypsy dreamed of normal high school, normal friends, a normal life, for years. Instead, the Cavies are sucked under a sea of government intrigue, weaponized genetic mutation, and crushing secrets that will reframe everything they’ve ever been told about how their “talents” came to be in the first place.
When they find out one of their own has been appropriated by the government, mistreated and forced to run dangerous missions, their desire for information becomes a pressing need. With only a series of guesses about their origins, the path to the truth becomes quickly littered with friends, enemies, and in the end, the Cavies ability to trust anyone at all.
Review:
At first I didn’t see the differences that the synopsis of the book made me expect. And this was good. It gave you a few pages to get used to viewing them as humans before seeing them as different. Otherwise I have a strong feeling that we might have looked at them at freaks much as society would view them if their powers ever came out. It was great to get a small break to get to know them before knowing for sure that they were different and in what ways they were different. Admittedly some of their powers did scare me because who really wants to know when they die? And that’s just one of the powers that’s a little less scary than others.
Until we were given a description of Gypsy’s power, and how exactly she sees the age that the person will die, I imagined it as something like the clocks above people’s head in Nickelback’s Savin’ Me video. But then were given a more concrete description of her gift and I could imagine it as the author probably sees it.
There were several facts that I didn’t clue into until it was brought up in discussions or by characters. For instance, I didn’t realize that none of them have mothers still alive until it was brought up by Gypsy. It made it a lot harder to guess what’s significant and what’s not. Which added to the fun of trying to figure things out.
Gypsy also brought up the difficult question of who the good guys and bad guys were. Most times in real life it can be hard to determine who has good intentions and who has bad, and Gypsy reflects this. It was one thing I loved and disliked about the book. It made things more realistic but it also made things difficult at the same time. It made things more challenging.
And then there was the ending. Major cliffhanger. I have to say that I was not happy to have that sort of ending. But only because I wanted to know what happened.
Gypsy was a realistic, if different read.
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About the Author
Trisha Leigh is a product of the Midwest, which means it’s pop, not soda, garage sales, not tag sales, and you guys as opposed to y’all. Most of the time. She’s been writing seriously for five years now, and has published 4 young adult novels and 4 new adult novels (under her pen name Lyla Payne). Her favorite things, in no particular order, include: reading, Game of Thrones, Hershey’s kisses, reading, her dogs (Yoda and Jilly), summer, movies, reading, Jude Law, coffee, and rewatching WB series from the 90’s-00’s.
Her family is made up of farmers and/or almost rock stars from Iowa, people who numerous, loud, full of love, and the kind of people that make the world better. Trisha tries her best to honor them, and the lessons they’ve taught, through characters and stories—made up, of course, but true enough in their way.
Trisha is the author of The Last Year series and the Whitman University books. She’s represented by Kathleen Rushall at Marsal Lyon Literary Agency.
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