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Altered (Altered, #1)

Jennifer Rush

Start date: March 3, 2014

Finish date: March 31, 2014

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Sep 07, 2013 Harmony rated it really liked it

Shelves: ass-kickin-books, strong-female-heroines, page-turners, 4-stars, young-adult, science-fiction, underrated-books

As I started reading Altered, I knew this was going to be an easy book to get into; I was right. Altered was like candy to me, fun and addicting. The story picked up right away and I couldn't devour the book fast enough. It was filled with action, mystery, and suspense, it also had light humor' which made it a quick read. Even though, I had a great time reading it, it had it's faults. For instance, I thought the romance wasn't neccessary, I could live without it; and, as far as character develop ...more

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Dec 09, 2013 Tamara rated it liked it

Shelves: young-adult, dystopia, sci-fiction, paranormal, it-could-have-been-so-much-better, 2013-reads

3.5 stars I was gonna give this one 4 stars but I changed my mind while reading the rescue/escape plot at the end. It was so lame, I thought all characters were stupid. And I dont understand why this is labeled as dystopia book when it definitely isnt.Sci-fiction; maybe I would have bought but this one I dont

I didnt have high expections about this book so I decided to check out the prequal first to see whether I'd like characters or not but OMG worst idea ever!!!It basically gave away too many t 3.5 stars I was gonna give this one 4 stars but I changed my mind while reading the rescue/escape plot at the end. It was so lame, I thought all characters were stupid. And I dont understand why this is labeled as dystopia book when it definitely isnt.Sci-fiction; maybe I would have bought but this one I dont

I didnt have high expections about this book so I decided to check out the prequal first to see whether I'd like characters or not but OMG worst idea ever!!!It basically gave away too many things about this book! Where was my mind?!

I loved the plot, I adored the characters but I've had problems with a lots of stuff.Its not a bad reading but some stuff was really predictable and I didnt like how they were handled.For example, I really really rolled my eyes and wanted to stop reading this book when they decided 'randomly going to Branch's headquarters and threating to leak information about what the company was doing' would save their asses.I mean seriously, what did you expect, of course thats not a good plan!!!

Also another problem I had was; while I liked Sam I didnt see any spark between him and Anna. There are a few interesting moments and there is a potential there but I didnt think 'OMG, they belong together' for even a second.But I liked how romance was handled.

And Anna is an interesting character to read.She spends 4 years looking after boys/helping her father and then when its too much she helps them escape.She is a great character because she basically gave up everything for a boy, Sam, but she knows this and she owns it. She questions herself, she questions whats happening, she questions Sam but its ok because all of it is done wonderfully.Most of the YA main cahracters would have came as annoying but she doesnt.She doesnt whine.She is capable of looking after herself.She is a kick-ass.A little too innocent for my taste (at the beginning) but its understandle because she was being manipulated too

Of course all of these doesnt mean there werent any shocking moments.There were a few of them and I'm not gonna spoil them for anyone but the 'undercover' plot was awesome, I so didnt expect that :) ...more

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Dec 08, 2012 Wren rated it it was amazing

Shelves: emotional, unique-books, exciting, young-adult-general, amazing-storyline, amazing-writing, kobo, favorites, bought-on-kobo

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Anna lives with her father and four boys. The four boys, Cas, Trev, Sam, and Nick, all reside in their own individual cells in the basement of Anna's house, as a part of The Branch.

Anna knows there's something different about them, but she doesn't know the details. They're potentially dangerous; after all, she isn't even allowed in their cells unless they have been exposed to a sleeping gas. Sometimes at night, she sneaks ...more

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Feb 08, 2013 Madelene G rated it liked it

The book was good and entertaining enough to make me want to finish it. But it lacked something, I did not care for either of the boys really.. Which is one of the reason why I bought the book, because I thought it might be fun with a book with many boys and one girl. But no.. they seemed flat to me somehow, even if at times I liked them. That was what the whole book was really, it had glimpses of exciting and really good parts, and then it just turned to okay again. It reminded me of Prison bre ...more

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