" In this fast-paced story, he author returns to a dystopian world in many respects similar to the one he explored in The Eleventh Plague. Sixteen-year-old Glenn Morgan lives a quiet life with her scientist father in the twenty-second century, studying and dreaming of escaping to live on another planet. Her mother disappeared years before, and Glenn spends time with her cat, Gerald Manley Hopkins, and sometimes with a friend, Kevin Kapoor, who believes that there is a world filled with magic on the other side of the Rift. Somehow, her father manages to figure out a way to get her mother back, but his discovery and crafting of a special bracelet leads to his arrest and to Glenn's journey to unexplored places where she learns the truth about her mother who has some sort of Affinity that allows her to draw energy and kill countless humans. As horrifying as this information may be to Glenn, what she learns about herself and her own role in the coming war may be even worse. While I enjoyed the title, I liked The Eleventh Plague much more. For this author, though, the future is a place filled with much mistrust and uncertainty. I'm one fan who hopes he writes more books for teen readers. "
— Barbara, 2/5/2014