Ratings

Content Ratings based on a 0-5 scale where
0 = no objectionable content and
5 = an excessive or disturbing level of content

Guide to Rating System

LANGUAGE

VIOLENCE

SEXUAL CONTENT

ADULT THEMES

Ratings Explanation

Language:  There are a couple of exclamations involving Deity.

Violence:  Some students are harassed by other students.  Kira jacks Raf’s mind and almost kills him.  Kira is taken to a cult group where Simon is ordered to kill someone.  Kira jacks everyone’s minds, leaving them unconscious and unable to help the person and escape.  Kira is taken against her will, drugged and imprisoned.  She tries to escape by overcoming a guard.  Kira is drugged again and sent to a prisoner camp.  Prisoners fight among themselves.  There is a chase.  The prison camp is gassed and people are taken for experiments.  Kira is shot with darts containing drugs.  There is an escape attempt.  Men are shooting guns at people from a helicopter.  Someone is shot and killed.  Kira almost kills a sniper but stops.  Kira shoots someone with drugged darts.  She fights with a security guard and injects him with a sedative.  People point guns and make threats.  There is another escape attempt.

Sexual Content:  Some boys leer at a girl.  “Some pavers like shark boy might enjoy feeling up a zero girl.”  There are some kisses and some people who make out.

Adult Themes:  An under-aged boy steals beer and takes it to his friends who all enjoy the buzz of getting drunk.  Kids labeled as “zeros” are snubbed and treated poorly.  Many mind jackers join a cult group where they pledge their allegiance and take vows of secrecy.

Synopsis

Kira Moore is a zero.  At sixteen, most of the other students have come into their mind reading abilities, but not Kira.  She cannot read thoughts and she cannot be read by others.  Society shuns those whose minds they cannot read.  How could they trust them?  Kira is treated as an outcast, except by her best friend, Raf, who tries to help her as much as he can.  Kira’s secret crush on Raf turns deadly one day when she accidentally jacks his mind and almost kills him.  Frightened by her newly discovered abilities, Kira tries to hide them from everyone.  If society shuns her as a zero, they would kill her over this.  Kira is slowly dragged down into the frightening underground world of the mind jackers.  Mind jacking is a very deadly game.

Open Minds is one of those books that has your heart pounding and your eyes racing to read as fast as you can so you can find out what happens next.  It is exciting and fast paced.  I loved all the emotions it evoked in me as a reader.  I was anxious, scared, angry, sad and relieved.  I felt connected to the characters, fully invested in their decisions and feelings.  I really enjoyed this book from beginning to end and I’m looking forward to the next book in this Mindjack Trilogy.