I
suggest you first read my post on book 1, Hunting Lila, before continuing. If this is a story you might like to follow,
do not read this post – it contains major spoilers of book 1.
At
the conclusion of Hunting Lila, Lila has discovered that Demos is not the man
who murdered her mother, and that her mother was never truly killed at all; like Lila she is a psygen – she is kept on The Unit’s base and experimented
on! Alex and Jack also discover that The
Unit is not what they think, and that the psygens they have been taught to hate
are not as sociopathic as they were made to believe.
Losing
Lila by Sarah Alderson picks up a shortly after Hunting Lila left off. A few days after the Joshua Tree shooting , Lila
and Alex are in Mexico, meeting up with Demos and the other psygens in order to
facilitate a plan to break Jack and Melissa out of The Unit’s custody. With Alex’ support and encouragement Lila
finally embraces her ability and works on controlling it and getting
stronger. It’s time to stop running and
start fighting.
The
stakes go even higher when Lila learns that The Unit also got their hands on her
father. It turns out that her father has always been aware of the fact that her mother is telepathic, and that he has been working on a cure for
psygens, to remove their abilities; but with his research The Unit need only
reverse the basics and they can create psygens of their own – better, stronger
psygens to be sold as weapons to the highest bidder.
Is
it possible for a handful of psygens, along with Alex, to break into the
hi-tech military base, get down to maximum prisoner holding, break out Lila’s
family and safely get back out, when all of them are wanted and hunted by The
Unit? Can a team of five people hope to
take down an entire military institution who threatens them all?
Losing
Lila was every bit as exciting as Hunting Lila, and concluded quite
satisfactorily; however, several questions are left unanswered. What happened to Richard Stirling? Is Sara alive? Will Jack ever discover the truth of his
birth? Sarah Alderson left the back door
ajar, ensuring the possibility of a future novel - though, should this not materialise, Losing
Lila answered all the major questions, so we can live with it. Though I would LOVE another book. Maybe set a few years later, seeing the gang
reunite for a kick-ass mission? I was
disappointed to have to say farewell to Lila, Alex, Jack, Demos, Suki, Key and
the others; especially Mrs Johnson – what a hoot!
One
of the things I appreciated most about these books, is that there is no love triangle. I am sick unto death of love triangles. It was really great to know straight of the
bat that Lila loves Alex, and while suspecting the feeling is mutual, he admits
it fairly early on. It was so refreshing
to just have the two of them be a couple in love all along, their love
threatened only by physical threats, no third party.
The
plotline is fast and furious, and once again there are several surprising
revelations that make the outcome impossible to predict.
I
had a hard time putting these books down, and whenever you are literally sad to
finish a book, the author did a fantastic job.
Sarah Alderson most definitely did.
Great, gripping read.
Product information:
Title: Losing Lila
Author: Sarah Alderson
Number of pages: 320
Publisher: Simon & Schuster
Year: 2012
ISBN-10: 0857071971
ISBN-13: 978-0857071972
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