Review of Jennifer Rush's Reborn
Release Date: January 6th, 2015
Synopsis as found on the inside cover flap:
No one involved with the Branch was ever innocent. Me included.
The Branch is in shambles, but Anna, Sam, Cas, and Nick can't rest easy. Remnants of the organization lurk unseen and the flashbacks to their old lives are only getting stronger--especially Nick's.
Following scattered memories and clues from his Branch file, Nick sets off alone in search of answers and in search of the girl who haunts his dreams. But the sleepy town where she lives in full of secrets and Nick soon learns that uncovering their shared past may have deadly consequences.
Experience the Branch through Nick's eyes in this action-packed finale to the Altered saga.
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I freakin' love this series! I am a little confused though... while reading the book and after finishing it, I was positive that there would be another (at least 1, maybe more) book to go. But when I was getting the synopsis to put on here, it says that this is the finale for the series. WTF? I hope this is not the ending.
So unlike Altered & Erased (the first 2 books in the series), this book is not about Anna or Sam. They are still in the book, but their parts are minor. This book is all about Nick. The brooding miserable character that we all loved to hate and hated to love finally gets his time in the spotlight. We finally get to see his softer more compassionate side. While it does take a minute to step back and see if it even feels like the same character, I actually enjoyed this new Nick.
During his flashbacks, which are coming a lot lately seeing as how none of them are taking the medicine that the Branch was feeding them to keep their old memories away, Nick sees a girl. In this flashback, he isn't sure if he is trying to save the girl or kill her. In his mind, he knows that this girl's life is tied to his sanity and humanity. If he saved her, than maybe he can save himself. If he killed her, then he is no better than the abusive father he now remembers running away from so many years ago. This whole story centers on Nick leaving the group to find Elizabeth, the girl literally of his dreams.
When Nick finds her in a town a few hours away, she seems to be living her life again, albeit in a foster home. Elizabeth also suffers from flashbacks. Unfortunately for her, they are not from having her memories wiped. Hers are from the PTSD she suffers from 6 months she was held in captivity. She was kidnapped with her mother and forced to undergo tests in a lab. The last memory she has of her mom was of her being used to make Lizzy behave. When she was saved (Nick was the one who took her to a hospital after a mysterious stranger broke her out), her mother was never seen from again. Her father had committed suicide during the 6 months after he was accused of involvement in their disappearance.
Nick sticks around the little town she lives in so that he can uncover what really happened to Elizabeth and the role he played in all of it. He needs to know... what he doesn't expect is to fall for this beautiful broken girl.
So, seeing as how I have finished book 3, I was expecting to find out about book 4 or 5... now that Nick has a love interest and Sam has Anna, where are the love interests for Cas or Trev. Although they may have faltered the Branch's plans yet again, there is NO WAY that they will just disappear without a fight. The Branch has ties to the government, there HAS TO BE more to this story!!! Maybe we should all write letters to Jennifer Rush expressing out need for more. Do you think that would work?
Check back in a couple days for my first of 3 upcoming Advance Reader Copy reads... as always, Keep Reading!!
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