Variant Lost by Kaydence SnowMy rating: 4 of 5 stars
I’d probably give the story 4.5 stars if I could, and the performance 3.5 stars.
I really enjoyed this book. The story was engaging, intriguing and the characters were interesting and well rounded. The plot was clever and drew me in. I felt the narration let the audio version of this book down as I felt Janine Granda was quite stilted in her performance in places. In other places her delivery felt subdued and restrained.
Evelyn has been on the run her entire life. She and her mother have moved consistently on a frequent basis, changing identities and locations in order to hide. Evelyn was never told what she was hiding from and the last time she had to move her mother blamed her for getting too close to people. Running for what felt like the thousandth time, they caught a plane to the US from Australia and the plane crashed. Evelyn and one other person survived.
Alone in the world and now living under her latest fake name in the US, in foster care, she is contacted by a prestigious university when she turns 18. It’s a university that deals primarily with Variants. Variants are humans with extra abilities. Evelyn, now called Eve, is pretty sure she’s straight up human but has excellent grades and is invited on a full scholarship to attend, with immediate effect.
Alone in a strange new world of people with fascinating abilities she is bewildered by people who actually seem to want to be friends with her.
There are all sorts of clever plot twists and building of tension but the thing I enjoyed the most was Eve learning how to relate to others and to try and build relationships and navigate the strange new world of families. It was fascinating.
I was really sucked in to the story, and will definitely read the next book, but I probably won’t listen to it on audio.
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