Friday, September 12, 2014

Review: Entangled by Amy Rose Capetta

Title: Entangled
Author: Amy Rose Capetta
Source: Amazon Vine
Genre: Young Adult, Science Fiction
Release Date: October 1, 2013
Reviewed by: Jasmyn

Alone was the note Cade knew best. It was the root of all her chords.

Seventeen-year-old Cade is a fierce survivor, solo in the universe with her cherry-red guitar. Or so she thought. Her world shakes apart when a hologram named Mr. Niven tells her she was created in a lab in the year 3112, then entangled at a subatomic level with a boy named Xan.
   

Cade’s quest to locate Xan joins her with an array of outlaws—her first friends—on a galaxy-spanning adventure. And once Cade discovers the wild joy of real connection, there’s no turning back.


This was an amazing sci-fi adventure with a nice theory about music behind it.  Cade is unique - she lives in a world filled with static, and only the right kind of music from her guitar can make it fade for a little while.  Then one day she seems to break through and it all goes away - but a strange man shows up with a bit of a history lesson for her.  The history of her life.  And it isn't anything like what she thought.

She is one of a pair of babies - bonded in a strange new molecular way called entanglement.  And her pair, Xan, is out there somewhere and she needs to find him before he is killed by the un-makers.  The un-makers are a strange new race that Cade has never seen before, and they are after her.  Her only hope is to trust in a strange group of new friends.

These new friends were amazingly written.  They had such unique personalities and ways of looking at life.  I loved how even the spaceship was portrayed - she was great!  Their search for Xan leads to several little side adventures and new information about Cade's past.  Each step closer, Cade manages to somehow unlock strange abilities that no one really knows how to control.

The ending was an odd mixture of sadness and hope.  At one point in time, I thought this was going to be a tragedy, but the author managed to miraculously turn it around just in time.  Not everyone comes out at the end unscathed, but their world is not a much better place because of what they've done.


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