Void

By Rhiannon Lassiter

669 Pages
Published by Simon Pulse

★★★★★

By Em

I literally finished this monster of a book seconds ago and then accidentally knocked my brother off the porch while running to the computer to write this. (Okay, maybe that's a bit of a stretch, but I really was thinking off pushing my brother off the porch) But I have to say, when I picked up Void by Rhiannon Lassiter, I wasn't quite sure what to expect. I most certainly did not expect what I found. 

Being short and blunt, this story was pretty awesome. It revolved around brother and sister Wraith, the ganger, and Raven, the Hex, a genetically modified person who has a way with computers. And even that is an understatement. There is no limit to this girl, and that is probably the main reason I like this book. Raven is epic. Sure, I like little 13-year-old Kez and Jeeva and Finn, two other gangers, but as cool as they all are, they have  nothing on Raven. She is a kick butt heroine, and one of a kind.

The story starts with Wraith and Raven looking for their sister Rachel. But as they search, they begin entangled with many other Hexes who together start a massive revolt against the European government. In all, the story seemed very X-Men to me, which I don't mind honestly. 

Now, I probably should take away one star, or at least half, to the writing style of this author, because the style she has is rather...odd. She seems to switch points of view and back very rapidly, sometimes just telling us what a different character is thinking before hoping right back to the other character. And while I should take a star away for that, I'm not going to, because I'm more on content, then on writing style. (Which is the reason Romeo and Juliet receives a big fat 0. Come on, marrying after knowing each other for a day, and then killing each other over it? And don't even get me started on Romeo laying on the floor, bawling like a eight-year-old girl...) 

All in all, my only other problem (well, actually Cassidy's problem) is the names. They are just plain odd. So things like Ali is good. But let me list a couple of the... strange ones. Wraith, Kez, Jeeva, Drow, Tally, Gift, Avalon, Cloud, Corrin, Alaric, and my personal favorite Electra. You got to admit, it's strange. I'm pretty sure that Electra is the name of a Spider-Man villain....

Electro, it's close.

Anyways, all of my fellow sci-fi lovers, this is totally a book for you. And may I just say, the ending is to die for!