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The Taking by Kimberly Derting
Publication Date: April 29, 2014
A flash of white light . . . and then . . . nothing.
When sixteen-year-old Kyra Agnew wakes up behind a Dumpster at the Gas ’n’ Sip, she has no memory of how she got there. With a terrible headache and a major case of déjà vu, she heads home only to discover that five years have passed . . . yet she hasn’t aged a day.
Everything else about Kyra’s old life is different. Her parents are divorced, her boyfriend, Austin, is in college and dating her best friend, and her dad has changed from an uptight neat-freak to a drunken conspiracy theorist who blames her five-year disappearance on little green men.
Confused and lost, Kyra isn’t sure how to move forward unless she uncovers the truth. With Austin gone, she turns to Tyler, Austin’s annoying kid brother, who is now seventeen and who she has a sudden undeniable attraction to. As Tyler and Kyra retrace her steps from the fateful night of her disappearance, they discover strange phenomena that no one can explain, and they begin to wonder if Kyra’s father is not as crazy as he seems. There are others like her who have been taken . . . and returned. Kyra races to find an explanation and reclaim the life she once had, but what if the life she wants back is not her own?
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Do you want to know the truth? I added this to my TBR for 1 reason. The chick wakes up behind a dumpster. A DUMPSTER. I’m not sure how I would recover from THAT, let alone the whole “no memory” thing. A DUMPSTER! Ugh. Anyways… 5 years have passed, no memory, headaches? All solid dilemmas that could be explored in a million different ways. I can’t wait to find out which one was chosen. This is what I am waiting for.
What are YOU waiting for?
I agree! It’s a very curious set-up that makes me interested in spite of myself. Potential alien abduction? I would haven’t thought I’d be interested in reading a book about this– but I am.
There are just SO MANY ways it could go!!! 🙂
I haven’t heard of this title but it sounds so good. I love books about memory loss! They’re always really interesting or really awkawrd!
Check out what I’m waiting on this week!
http://toomanywordstonight.blogspot.com
I totally get sucked into amnesia stories! Can’t help it!
WOW
Sandy @ Somewhere Only We Know
Me too!!!!