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.
*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?)
*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)
