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Mind Mods
Someone is modifying the minds of gifted teens - against their will.
Julie tries to be just a regular girl, despite the fact that her mom is a drug addict. She goes to school, she goes to work and she's got great plans for the future.
But, someone on the faculty at Julie's school for the gifted wants her to be different. In fact, they want all of the students to be different. And they intend to modify the minds of their students in an illegal and unsanctioned experiment in order to make them change.
Julie soon finds that she's one of the few who are not "infected" with mind altering nanobots, and as the whole city goes wild with infected teens, she must find a way to avoid detection and rescue her classmates before its too late.
Julie tries to be just a regular girl, despite the fact that her mom is a drug addict. She goes to school, she goes to work and she's got great plans for the future.
But, someone on the faculty at Julie's school for the gifted wants her to be different. In fact, they want all of the students to be different. And they intend to modify the minds of their students in an illegal and unsanctioned experiment in order to make them change.
Julie soon finds that she's one of the few who are not "infected" with mind altering nanobots, and as the whole city goes wild with infected teens, she must find a way to avoid detection and rescue her classmates before its too late.
153 pages, Kindle Edition
First published December 21, 2011
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July 20, 2016
"At least I'm safe inside my mind." Now, that may be a line I'm quoting from Spongebob Squarepants, but hear me out because I think that the quotation states it best. We have so many thoughts that race through out mind on a daily basis, and it's all kept to ourselves. We get to decide what we want to share with other people. That seemingly small, yet infinite, refuge of our mind is sacred and ours alone. But in Mind Mods by Janean Worth, microscopic technology has the power to hijack minds and bodies.
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At a high school for gifted students, Julie is working hard to get into Cornell so she can get herself and her younger sister Amy away from their drug-addicted, abusive mother. When all the students are given candy to taste-test by two science teachers, the students begin to behave strangely. They're offering to help in whatever way they can and strictly following rules. When Julie, her friend Marcia, and Derek realize that they're some of the few who haven't eaten the candy and are still behaving sanely, they try to figure out what's going on and how to fix it.
The narrative was entertaining, but it wasn't too nuanced to garner much deep thought as something of this nature might invite. Julie and Derek were way too quick to figure out what was happening and how to reverse it--yes, setting the story into a gifted high school should have eliminated some of the doubt about the students' abilities to deduce the cause, but it was still far too unbelievable. Also, the name "Mr. Awphel." Awful. Come on. It's way too heavy-handed, even if he is an awful human.
Overall, I'd give it a 2.5 out of 5 stars.
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At a high school for gifted students, Julie is working hard to get into Cornell so she can get herself and her younger sister Amy away from their drug-addicted, abusive mother. When all the students are given candy to taste-test by two science teachers, the students begin to behave strangely. They're offering to help in whatever way they can and strictly following rules. When Julie, her friend Marcia, and Derek realize that they're some of the few who haven't eaten the candy and are still behaving sanely, they try to figure out what's going on and how to fix it.
The narrative was entertaining, but it wasn't too nuanced to garner much deep thought as something of this nature might invite. Julie and Derek were way too quick to figure out what was happening and how to reverse it--yes, setting the story into a gifted high school should have eliminated some of the doubt about the students' abilities to deduce the cause, but it was still far too unbelievable. Also, the name "Mr. Awphel." Awful. Come on. It's way too heavy-handed, even if he is an awful human.
Overall, I'd give it a 2.5 out of 5 stars.
July 19, 2015
Zombies strike again
This YA book is about a couple of sinister science teachers that brew up a special candy in the science lab and have their students test it out and write a paper about their experience with the candy. Little do the students know, the candy is laced with nanobots that take over the minds of the teens and have them acting very peculiar.
I liked that this story was quick and entertaining, but a couple things within the story had me thinking that the author could have drawn this out a little better. How can these students automatically know it's the candy doing things to the students without anything leading up to their assumption? Because of glaring holes in this story such as that, I had to knock it down to three stars. Good book, but could have been better.
This YA book is about a couple of sinister science teachers that brew up a special candy in the science lab and have their students test it out and write a paper about their experience with the candy. Little do the students know, the candy is laced with nanobots that take over the minds of the teens and have them acting very peculiar.
I liked that this story was quick and entertaining, but a couple things within the story had me thinking that the author could have drawn this out a little better. How can these students automatically know it's the candy doing things to the students without anything leading up to their assumption? Because of glaring holes in this story such as that, I had to knock it down to three stars. Good book, but could have been better.
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