Boy X

Reviewed by: Mary Lehmer - Freeport Community Library, Freeport, Southern Maine Library District

Review Date: July 5, 2017

Review

This story is about a 12-year-old boy, Ash that wakes up on an island with an IV drip in his arm and at first has no idea why or how he got there. He quickly figures out that both he and his mom (she's a scientist) have been kidnapped. Both are trapped on an island where people have just stolen a deadly virus from the island's lab and Ash is one of the only people that can stop them from escaping with it.

This is a total page turner. Ash and Isabel, another teen Ash meets on the island, have to use homemade bombs and their smarts to try to figure out a way to stop the bad guys. What makes this book even suspenseful is that it is hard to know which people are bad and which are good- they all seem bad but claim to be good. Fast action packed thriller that will keep you up late finishing.

Overall Book Score: very good