Virals

Virals by Kathy Reichs

My rating: 3 of 5 stars


This book has overtones of the Maximum Ride series by James Patterson. It is about a witty, intelligent girl, Tory Brennan, who is getting used to living with her estranged father after her mother's death. Her father is a marine biologist working on an isolated barrier island. She has become friends with an eclectic group of boys with similar interests, who also live on the island. When she discovers on the island an old dog tag (military ID), and sets out to discover who the tag belongs to, she and her friends are led into a unsolved missing person's case. The missing person case also indirectly leads them to the discovery of a stolen wolf-dog being used as a guinea pig for tests of a parvovirus, which should only affect dogs. The mutated virus affects the teenagers, however, and that's where overtones of Maximum Ride come in. After getting over the initial illness, they are left with amazing powers, which help in the solving of the case. The book was quite a fun read, actually, in spite of the sometimes overdone story. The characters were likable and believable. Students who have read the story grabbed the sequel, Seizure, so it looks like a hit.



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