Adaptation

Malinda Lo

2012 • 432 pages

Ratings14

Average rating3.2

Reese can’t remember anything from the time between the accident and the day she woke up almost a month later. She only knows one thing: She’s different now.

Across North America, flocks of birds hurl themselves into airplanes, causing at least a dozen to crash. Thousands of people die. Fearing terrorism, the United States government grounds all flights, and millions of travelers are stranded.

Reese and her debate team partner and longtime crush David are in Arizona when it happens. Everyone knows the world will never be the same. On their drive home to San Francisco, along a stretch of empty highway at night in the middle of Nevada, a bird flies into their headlights. The car flips over. When they wake up in a military hospital, the doctor won’t tell them what happened, where they are—or how they’ve been miraculously healed.

Things become even stranger when Reese returns home. San Francisco feels like a different place with police enforcing curfew, hazmat teams collecting dead birds, and a strange presence that seems to be following her. When Reese unexpectedly collides with the beautiful Amber Gray, her search for the truth is forced in an entirely new direction—and threatens to expose a vast global conspiracy that the government has worked for decades to keep secret.

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Adaptation

Adaptation is a 3-book series with 2 primary works first released in 2012 with contributions by Malinda Lo.

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Renata Sancken

I feel about this like how I felt about [b:Ash 6472451 Ash Malinda Lo https://d.gr-assets.com/books/1286563960s/6472451.jpg 6550542], which is like... I wanted to like it more than I actually liked it. I'm stoked that there's a bi love triangle and diverse characters in a sci-fi conspiracy thriller! But also... eh? I'll definitely rec this to teens–perhaps those who aren't so jaded will find this less predictable/annoying. And of course lots of teens will be happy to see characters like themselves reflected in the pages.

May 1, 2015

Mandi

This book opened up with birds going crazy and plunging into the ground (to their deaths) or flying en masse into airplanes causing crashes all over the world.

My first thought was what is happening here?

As I continued reading, I grew more and more fascinated - and more and more confused.

Mysteries, secrets, and conspiracies oh my!

This is one book where I couldn't possibly have predicted what was really going on.

That makes me adore Malinda Lo.

Reese is my favorite kind of main character. As her life is imploding and the world around her seems to be going crazy, she doesn't keep everything to herself (even though the government required her to sign an NDA after her accident). She finds ways to talk to her mom (yes - her mother). She decides - with David - that it's okay to bring her best friend Julian into the loop. She doesn't just suffer in silence and try to fix the world herself. I get so angry with characters who do that!

Her mom is actually involved in her life. That never happens in YA! A large chunk of the book is dedicated to Reese discovering that she likes girls (too). Her mom catches her kissing a girl, and there's no drama whatsoever surrounding the scene. LOVE.

I do think the ending was wrapped up a little too neatly (in what world would the government release Reese and David simply because of media pressure?) but I'm excited to see what happens next. This story is far from over.