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It's time to leave Earth and cross over to the other side... it's not as far away as you think!!
daynightby Megan Thomason
Paperback, 324 pages
Published November 26th 2012 by Creatspace
Source: ebook
Meet The Second Chance Institute (SCI): Earth’s benevolent non-profit by day, Thera’s totalitarian regime by night. Their motto: Because Everyone Deserves a Second Chance™. Reality: the SCI subjects Second Chancers to strict controls and politically motivated science experiments like Cleaving—forced lifetime union between two people who have sex. Punishment for disobeying SCI edicts? Immediate Exile or death.
Meet Kira Donovan. Fiercely loyal, overly optimistic, and ensnared by the promise of a full-ride college scholarship, Kira signs the SCI Recruit contract to escape memories of a tragedy that left her boyfriend and friends dead.
Meet Blake Sundry. Bitter about being raised in Exile and his mother’s death, Blake’s been trained to infiltrate and destroy the SCI. Current barrier to success? His Recruit partner—Miss Goody Two Shoes Kira Donovan.
Meet Ethan Darcton. Born with a defective heart and resulting inferiority complex, Ethan’s forced to do his SCI elite family’s bidding. Cleave-worthy Kira Donovan catches his eye, but the presiding powers give defect-free Blake Sundry first dibs.
My Review of Daynight:
My Rating: 3/5 stars
When I first read the synopsis for this book, I knew I had to give it a read. I love dystopian novels and the title and cover also sold me. I also like books that are told from multiple POV's because I love getting into our main characters heads. I felt that really help me understand Kira, Blake, and Ethan that much better. The pacing in this book threw me a little, however. Thomason is very descriptive and detailed and I found that sometimes it was a bit much for me. So much information was being provided, that I felt distracted from the main plotline.
I liked reading about Kira, even though she did frustrate me at times. She is brought into the SCI after she witnesses a horrific tragedy on Earth, losing her boyfriend and best friend. She is partnered with Blake, another student from Earth, and the two form an alliance, and later a 'relationship'. I had trouble buying into Blake and Kira's feelings for each other, because I didn't see them as realistic. I definitely think the two were attracted to each other, but I was surprised at their confessions of love. I didn't buy it, personally. Ethan, on the other hand, Kira meets at a party briefly and he falls for her instantly. However, because of his status, he is not allowed to make advances on her.
Ethan drove me a little crazy too, though I clearly favored him over Blake. I understand that he wasn't allowed to pursue Kira, but to let her believe that he was madly in love with someone else and confuse her own feelings? I hated that for her. His feelings towards Kira felt a bit more genuine to me (even though I don't put much stock into the whole love at first sight thing). He really is sweet, charming, and cares about her. He is harboring secrets though, and I don't think that will end up well for them.
I did not care much for Blake's character. I didn't feel that he was genuine and he really was looking out for number one. He has a supposed change of heart later in the book, but I'm still not really buying it. I think what he does towards the end definitely confirms it for me.
Overall, this book did catch my attention, despite the issues I had with it, and I am curious to read the next installment, Arbitrate, because I'm looking forward to seeing the characters from Clean Slate Complex (see my review below) make an appearance.
When I first read the synopsis for this book, I knew I had to give it a read. I love dystopian novels and the title and cover also sold me. I also like books that are told from multiple POV's because I love getting into our main characters heads. I felt that really help me understand Kira, Blake, and Ethan that much better. The pacing in this book threw me a little, however. Thomason is very descriptive and detailed and I found that sometimes it was a bit much for me. So much information was being provided, that I felt distracted from the main plotline.
I liked reading about Kira, even though she did frustrate me at times. She is brought into the SCI after she witnesses a horrific tragedy on Earth, losing her boyfriend and best friend. She is partnered with Blake, another student from Earth, and the two form an alliance, and later a 'relationship'. I had trouble buying into Blake and Kira's feelings for each other, because I didn't see them as realistic. I definitely think the two were attracted to each other, but I was surprised at their confessions of love. I didn't buy it, personally. Ethan, on the other hand, Kira meets at a party briefly and he falls for her instantly. However, because of his status, he is not allowed to make advances on her.
Ethan drove me a little crazy too, though I clearly favored him over Blake. I understand that he wasn't allowed to pursue Kira, but to let her believe that he was madly in love with someone else and confuse her own feelings? I hated that for her. His feelings towards Kira felt a bit more genuine to me (even though I don't put much stock into the whole love at first sight thing). He really is sweet, charming, and cares about her. He is harboring secrets though, and I don't think that will end up well for them.
I did not care much for Blake's character. I didn't feel that he was genuine and he really was looking out for number one. He has a supposed change of heart later in the book, but I'm still not really buying it. I think what he does towards the end definitely confirms it for me.
Overall, this book did catch my attention, despite the issues I had with it, and I am curious to read the next installment, Arbitrate, because I'm looking forward to seeing the characters from Clean Slate Complex (see my review below) make an appearance.
clean slate complex
by Megan Thomason
Meet The Second Chance Institute (SCI): Worldwide non-profit and do-gooder organization. Their motto: Because Everyone Deserves a Second Chance at Life(TM). Reality: hidden behind every kind act is a dark agenda designed to gain control and force societal and moral extremes. Currently, the SCI’s pushing Project Liberate, a program to woo the poor and downtrodden into their Clean Slate Complexes—where “everything is provided” from jobs to food, shelter, clothing, and education. Unfortunately, as with all things that sound too good to be true, there’s a catch…
Meet Alexa Knight. Feisty, tough and currently homeless in Los Angeles, Alexa agrees to help the SCI in return for medical care for her sick mother. When she starts to suspect there’s more to the SCI than meets the eye will she believe Adam—the boy who saved her life and the SCI’s biggest champion, or Joshua—the attractive enigma who sings about conspiracy theories and pretends to be someone he’s not?
Full of action, humor, romance, twists and turns, clean slate complex is a companion story to the highly-praised dystopian novel, daynight. It can be enjoyed before or after readingdaynight.
My Review of Clean Slate Complex:
My Rating: 4/5 stars
The SCI offers second chances to those who are in desperate
need of food, shelter, and clothing. However, not everything is as it seems.
Alexa meets Joshua at the campaign and views him as not all there. Interestingly
enough, she meets him again at SCI headquarters and he is definitely not who he
seemed. He is very reticent about
disclosing information to Alexa, as he claims it is not safe to speak freely.
There is a bit of a love triangle here, as both Adam and
Joshua have expressed interest in Alexa. We get a pretty big plot twist and
Alexa learns SCI is not at all what it claims to be, and Joshua’s allegiance
is wishy washy at best.
Alexa, Adam, and
Joshua will all appear in Atribute, the second book in the Daynight
series. I can’t wait!
Megan Thomason lives in paradise aka San Diego, CA with her husband and five children. A former software manager, Megan vastly prefers writing twisted tales to business, product, and marketing plans. When she isn't typing away on her laptop, she's reading books on her phone—over 600 in the last year—or attending to the needs of her family. Megan’s fluent in sarcasm, could potentially benefit from a 12-step program for road rage, struggles with a Hot Tamales addiction, loves world travel & fast cars and hates paperwork & being an insomniac. Daynight is Megan's first published novel, but fourth written one.
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