Book Blurb
Every night after Ember Pierce falls asleep, she disappears. She can teleport anywhere in the world—London, Paris, her crush’s bedroom—wherever her dreams lead her. Ten minutes is all she gets, and once time’s up, she returns to her bed. It's a secret she’s successfully kept for the last five years. But now someone knows.
A week after her eighteenth birthday, when frustratingly handsome Caden Hawthorne captures her, delivers her to the government, and then disappears before her eyes, Ember realizes two things: One, she is not alone. And two, people like her—teleporters—are being used as weapons.
Dragged off to a remote facility where others like her live, Ember’s forced to pair up with her former captor, Caden, to learn how to survive inside until she can escape. Only Caden’s making escape seem less and less appealing.
But even as Ember falls for the boy who got her into this mess, she knows that she is running out of time. Because the government has plans for those like her, and those plans might just cost Ember her life.
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Toot's Review by Stacy Sabala
Ember Pierce received this mysterious inking on her shoulder after her eighteenth birthday. She had no idea how it got there. She also has a hidden talent. She teleports at night while in bed. She has a time limit of ten minutes once she teleports to a location.
Her latest teleport sends her to a party where she meets a handsome man named Adrian Sumner. Inside her purse is a note and a gun. She is shocked to find both and read what the note is telling her to do. She teleports back home before anything happens. She sees him again when she teleports to an unknown house with a combination to a safe. He throws her out.
After that incident, government agents arrive on her doorstep and her life forever changes. She is transported to a facility for training. She learns combat and weaponry. She realizes she is training to be a spy with her pair Caden. Secrets come out about her life and what she really is. Her life is forever changed. Then something goes dangerously wrong.
This was an interesting book. Ember could teleport right before she falls asleep for ten minutes. It was an intriguing concept. She couldn’t control where she went. It was her big secret and she learned to work around it. Her parents didn’t even know.
The author did a great job of painting the government project as the bad guys. It is truly a shocking idea of the government exploiting teens that they genetically created. It is espionage at its worst.
I liked the relationship between Caden and Ember. She was furious that he helped capture her. She fought him at every turn. Yet he refused to give up and became her shadow. He became the only person she trusted.
This book sets up a story where you accompany Ember through her discovery, training, and plans of escape. She has hopes of saving those around her. She refuses to conform to what they want and hides the extent of her abilities. The ending is shocking and sets up the story for the next installment. I want to see what happens next. I give this book a 4 out of 5.
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