Not for me. Tory Brennan, 14-year-old niece of
Temperance Brennan (“Bones”), lives on a barrier island outside of Charleston South
Carolina. She and her three friends first go looking for a missing wolfdog,
then uncover of forty-year-old murder. Along the way they acquire superpowers.
I could have done without the superpowers, but other reviewers suggest that this
is what the middle-school set wants.
Tory and her three male friends are all
children of parents who work at Charleston University’s Loggerhead Island
Research Institute. This entitles them to attend a fancy private high school.
Poor nerds and rich popular kids. Credit to the author for making some of the
rich kids nice and for a strong female protagonist (Everyone listens to Tory).
Their first mystery is the missing wolfdog on
Loggerhead Island. This leads to a secret lab and an old dog tag. The old dog tag
leads to the murder of 16-year-old Katherine Heaton forty years ago. In the
interim, the four teenagers get very sick and shot at.
These four smart children investigate issues of
biology and ecology, but unfortunately, their brains are not enough. They can
only solve these mysteries with the dubiously acquired superpowers.
A science-based YA novel where science is
insufficient, only fantasy superpowers can save the day.
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