Friday, May 3, 2013

Entanglement by Dan Rix

Hello, I'm Mallory a reviewer here at SupaGurls. I am really excited to be here and to have read this book. It's nice to meet you all my pretties! So without further babbling (because it'll happen) I'm going to present my review of Entanglement by Dan Rix.

Entanglement

By Dan Rix


Book Synopsis

"...the scientific explanation is quantum entanglement, whereby the boy and girl—even when separated by great distances—react instantaneously to changes in each other's states..." —Dr. Casler Selavio, on the entanglement of halves.

In a world like ours, humans are born in pairs. When a newborn boy takes his first breath in the coastal town of Tularosa, the exact time is noted, recorded in the Registry, and later compared to the birth times of other newborns around the globe. There will be one identical match—his half. They will meet on their eighteenth birthday and they will spend their lives together. Except this time, there is no match.
Hotheaded heartthrob Aaron Harper is scheduled to meet his half in twenty-nine days, and he doesn’t buy a word of that entanglement crap. So what if he and his half were born the same day and share a spooky psychic connection? Big deal. After breaking one too many teenage girls’ hearts, he’ll stick to brawling with the douchebag rugby players any day.
Until the day a new girl arrives at school and threatens everything he takes for granted.
Cold and unapproachable, Amber Lilian hates the growing list of similarities between her and the one boy she can’t read, Aaron: born the same day, both stubborn, both terrified of meeting their halves. . . . All the more reason not to trust him. That she would rather die than surrender herself as her half’s property is none of his damn business. But once lost in Aaron’s dangerous, jet black eyes, she’s already surrendered more than she cares to admit.
Tangled in each other’s self-destructive lives, Aaron and Amber learn the secret behind their linked births and why they feel like halves—but unless they can prove it before they turn eighteen, Aaron faces a lifetime alone in a world where everyone else has a soul mate . . . and he’ll have to watch Amber give herself to a boy who intends to possess not only her body but also a chunk of her soul.

My Review

5 Stars

*I thought about this for a long time after finishing it, the entire time I was writing the review in fact. It deserves 5 stars in my book because I'm still obsessing over it in my mind, I can still feel my heart pounding from the roller coaster the last half of the book took me on. I was attached and thoroughly invested and any book that can make me ache, cheer and defend fictional characters is a work of art. It wasn't just a great story, it made me think and twisted me up inside with excitement. So five stars.*

I was attracted to the story from the beginning; Dan Rix wasted no time diving head first into a plot that kept my head spinning. It was well thought out and the world Rix created in Entanglement and the concept was intricate and suspenseful. I was engulfed by the first few chapters and drawn into Aaron Harper’s world where halves are determined when you’re born. There’s no choice, you have no say and on your eighteenth birthday you meet the other half of your soul. Except Aaron doesn’t buy the “halves” concept and neither does the new girl he meets Amber Lilian.  

Entanglement is full of complex characters and a web weaved with secrets, destinies, tangled life lines and two teen agers fighting for their rights and each other. Both Aaron and Amber are trapped in their own downward spiral of self-destruction when they meet, each of them giving up for their own reasons. Oh, how the story began unfolding at an alarming rate after they meet, as they continue stirring up more trouble than they could imagine trying to save each other before it’s too late. Aaron Harper or number eleven is a strong willed, teenage heart throb that any girl will fall for and there’s something about his character that sucked me in and I wanted to know more, to see what made fueled his temper. Amber is feisty and just as engaging, she fights everybody the entire time, she never gave up and was just as smart as Aaron and they complimented each other. The snappy dialogue and complicated relationships and circumstances kept me guessing. The supporting characters were a delight because I was never sure who was good or evil and if anybody (or who I expected) was going to step in. Dan Rix’s use of their roles and ambiguity about their true loyalties made the story even more thrilling and detailed.
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*Seriously this is how I felt with almost every turn of the page. I probably even made the same face. I really wish I could tell you but I prefer to leave out as many spoilers as possible*

I really enjoy stories like this where at the end everything comes together smoothly and blends until you’re convinced you just witnessed the whole thing literally. Entanglement was full of those wonderful awkwardly amazing moments that steal your breath and demand you keep reading until the wee hours of the morning and I even found myself holding my breath scared to keep reading. The way it's written as a countdown until his eighteenth birthday and his scheduled "halves" meeting built up the momentum and intensity as time drew closer until there was no time left. (I mean what happens when you know the impossible is coming?)

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*and then of course there was this face as I chanted please and begged that what I was reading wasn't really true or happening and that it was a trick.*

At one point I thought the entire book changed and as I kept reading I realized Dan Rix did introduce something that changed everything and the need to finish the book was undeniable. I tuned everything out from my step-mom to the radio in the background and all I heard was the words as I kept reading. Completely lost in the story and fidgeting with excitement. My heart is still throbbing from the explosive ending to Entanglement.

My favorite line and I highlighted a bunch was “the task is not to see what no one has yet seen; but to think what nobody has yet thought about that which everybody sees.” Because then I found myself wondering if I missed a key clue. But I didn't the ending was a complete surprise and definitely left me wanting more.

Happy Reading My Pretties


Amazon Link: Entanglement (YA Dystopian Romance)



3 comments:

  1. Awesome review. Love the line about "The task is not to see what no one has yet seen..." Must have this now. :)

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  2. Great review! Gifs always make my day :)

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