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 is frequent mild swearing (hell, damn) as well as words like screw, pissed and sucks.  Bastard is used once and there is one exclamation involving Deity.

Violence:  Kylie sees into the mind of a man accused of kidnapping.  She sees a little girl, barely alive.  They find the little girl, beaten and almost dead.  Kylie runs for her life.  A man holds people up with a gun.  A woman is beaten and held hostage.  Trip is knocked out.  Kylie is kidnapped and tied up with tape along with someone else.

Sexual Content:  Kylie sees someone’s thoughts about getting naked and rolling around together on a blanket.  Kylie remembers a kiss where “Brett Mayner stuck his tongue down my throat.”  Kylie’s best friend is making out with her crush.  Someone is called a slut.  Kylie views someone’s sexual fantasies and there is some detail.  There is some kissing and a make-out scene that goes into detail.  Someone asks someone else if they are “doing it”.

Adult Themes:  Kylie’s mom died when she was young.  Kylie’s father lies to her.

Synopsis

In one moment Kylie’s life changes forever.  It’s the moment she touches someone’s hand and sees into their mind.  If that isn’t freaky enough, when she finally tells her dad what she can do, he makes her go to the police department and try to read the mind of a kidnapper.  The images Kylie sees are scary, but she is determined to help find the young girl who is on the verge of death.  Turns out that finding the girl leads Kylie to a whole group of people she never knew about- her family.  Secrets and danger surround Kylie as she struggles to accept her new found power, a new family and the fact that someone is trying to kill her.  Good thing she has wanna-be cop, Trip, to help her.

This book was so engaging.  I just zoomed through the pages and got so caught up in the story that I sometimes forgot to take notes!  Kylie has a sense of humor that runs on the sarcastic side which kept me snickering to myself.  Even though the story had some more serious moments, it never really lost it’s light feeling.  Here is my favorite quote from the book.  “Don’t we all have something we’re just not willing to share?  Some part of ourselves too fragile and sacred to expose?  Life’s hard.  Much harder than I realized but I’m going to keep trying to do the right thing.”  This book is labeled YA which is 15-25.  Due to the sexual content in this book, caution may be needed for the younger end of this age group.