I have a love for this kind of story and I can't put my finger on why. I like good science fiction but there are certain tropes in the genre that work for me and this is one of them. (view spoiler)[ COME ON ALIENS ARE AMAZING. THEY'RE TERRIFYING AND MYSTERIOUS! How can you NOT like an alien story if it's well done? (hide spoiler)]Lo's novel is fast paced up until the end, where I found there was a little bit of a drag as the real information and back story was revealed. It's not problematic, bu...

i have got to learn to read the entire dust jacket in the future...this is what i saw: Across North America, flocks of birds hurl themselves into airplanes, causing at least a dozen to crash. Thousands of people die. Fearing terrorism, the United States government grounds all flights, and millions of travelers are stranded. Among them are Reese and her debate team partner and longtime crush David, who are in Arizona when the disaster occurs. On their drive home to San Francisco, along a stretch

Bisexual love triangle? With sugar, please.

Pretty package wrapped around a skeletal core, padded by lots of glittery styrofoam. Hey, at least they're glittery.On their way home from a debate meet in Arizona, Reese, David and their coach, Mr. Chapman's flight back to San Francisco got grounded. Birds have caused four planes all over the country to crash for some mysterious reason. In true post-apocalyptic fashion, the three of them opted to travel by land, getting waylaid by the pandemonium generated by the uncertainty surrounding the str...

I'm torn between whether to give this one or two stars. The very beginning was pretty good, so I'm going to leave it at 2. But... mehhh. After the opening action (view spoiler)[(i.e. after the car accident) (hide spoiler)], all of the momentum was completely lost, there wasn't a clear direction that we were moving in. That was really hard to read through. I almost put the book down again and again but such a good premise had been set up in the first 50 pages that I wanted to know what happened w...

I need to find a way to get this book off my hands ASAP it’s physically hurting me to own it. thanks to my local library for giving me a copy of this book BUT Y’ALL SHOULDN'T HAVE . I’m not being sarcastic. Reese has got to be one of the most annoying characters to exist in the book world. and a bisexual love triangle in which the male love interest is bland and dry, and the female love interest has no build-up does NOT work for me. I’m sorry. Diversity matters and I’m sure this is the only book...

My (old) review for this book can be found on my blog, the lowercase gimmick.It can be hard to admit that a book I really liked and that really impacted me emotionally is flawed. But there are big parts of this book that don't work - mainly, the fact that Reese is a very passive protagonist, and the sci-fi elements don't fit well with the contemporary elements.That said, it's still very emotional to see aspects of myself represented in this way, and this is a well-written book with a lot to like...

If you have read the synopsis for this novel, you will understand exactly why it is so intriguing. The mystery it promises reeled me in and I began with the intention of reading a few pages but about two and a half hours later, turned the last page. Lo knows how to tell a story. She knows how to reel a reader in and while Adaptation had some flaws, you have to give credit where it is due.It is inevitable that I will end up discussing the romance in this novel because of two reasons: one, it is a...

I feel like I’ve had a pretty good experience with Malinda Lo’s books so far. Huntress and Ash weren’t perfect, but I remember them fondly, and I was excited for Adaptation, Lo’s step from medieval fantasy into contemporary sci-fi. Unfortunately, I don’t know that I’ll be able to remember this one with as much affection as the others. It was kind of a slog. An on-the-bad-end-of-mediocre slog.Adaptation‘s saving grace is that its heart is in the right place. There’s no uncritically perpetuated bi...

Whoa. THERE HAD BETTER BE A SEQUEL.Review to come.

This was an extremely quick read for me! I don't think I've been this excited to finish a book since I read A Thousand Pieces of You in one day (and killed my sleeping pattern in the progress).The synopsis had me intrigued, because evil birds? Who doesn't love to read about nature going haywire?! This book was well paced, with action here and a lull there. I sometimes felt that the lulls in the middle of the book were stretched out a bit too long though, as the storyline did get a little boring....

My only problem was that it long, with quite a bit of unnecessary stuff thrown in, as is common with Malinda Lo books. That being said i loved the plot and and characters. Most of all i loved the main romance, even better that it was relevant to the plot and wow that reveal."𝐒𝐡𝐞 𝐟𝐞𝐥𝐭 𝐭𝐡𝐞 𝐩𝐮𝐥𝐬𝐞 𝐨𝐟 𝐀𝐦𝐛𝐞𝐫’𝐬 𝐡𝐞𝐚𝐫𝐭𝐛𝐞𝐚𝐭 𝐚𝐠𝐚𝐢𝐧𝐬𝐭 𝐡𝐞𝐫 𝐨𝐰𝐧. 𝐓𝐡𝐢𝐬 𝐰𝐚𝐬 𝐛𝐞𝐭𝐭𝐞𝐫 𝐭𝐡𝐚𝐧 𝐬𝐨𝐚𝐫𝐢𝐧𝐠 𝐢𝐧 𝐭𝐡𝐞 𝐧𝐢𝐠𝐡𝐭 𝐬𝐤𝐲. 𝐓𝐡𝐢𝐬 𝐰𝐚𝐬 𝐤𝐧𝐨𝐰𝐢𝐧𝐠 𝐭𝐡𝐞 𝐭𝐞𝐱𝐭𝐮𝐫𝐞 𝐨𝐟 𝐀𝐦𝐛𝐞𝐫’𝐬 𝐛𝐫𝐞𝐚𝐭𝐡 𝐚𝐬 𝐰𝐞𝐥𝐥 𝐚𝐬 𝐬𝐡𝐞 𝐤𝐧𝐞𝐰 𝐡𝐞𝐫 𝐨𝐰𝐧, 𝐚𝐬 𝐢𝐟 𝐭𝐡𝐞𝐲 𝐛𝐫𝐞𝐚𝐭𝐡𝐞𝐝 𝐟𝐫𝐨𝐦 𝐭𝐡𝐞 𝐬𝐚𝐦𝐞 𝐬𝐞𝐭 𝐨𝐟 𝐥𝐮𝐧...

Adaptation was different from the YA I've been reading lately. Very sci-fi, X-Files feel with government cover ups and conspiracy theories. There's an unusual love triangle, but it's not the focus of the story, so it didn't annoy me. Reece and her debate partner, David, are in an Arizona airport when strange bird behavior results in all flights being grounded. They attempt to drive home to San Francisco and end up in a strange military hospital after a horrible car accident. Neither has any memo...

One day, traveling back from a debate tournament, everything goes crazy and awful: flocks of birds cause several plane crashes. Okay, birds are creepy. Then there's a national state of emergency which leaves Reece, her teammate and their debate coach stranded farm from home with phones out/down/whatever and no flights. Highschool students unable to get home or contact their folks during an emergency, that's a hell of a situation. And then things get worse. And worse. And still more worse.Plotwis...

(More like 2 for enjoyment, but I'm trying to give credit for -- something.) One of those books that you expect to like, and then find about as easy to fall into as molasses. Very cold, bordering-on-solid molasses. There were plenty of elements I thought should have been appealing, but I kept getting thrown out by the characters being flat, flat, flat. Reese sure told us a lot about her crush, and exactly how each kiss made her feel, but it never connected for me in any way. When the big Twist f...