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Vicci Audio Nerd & Kristin - The Taking

A flash of white light . . . and then . . . nothing. 

When sixteen-year-old Kyra Agnew wakes up behind a Dumpster at the Gas ’n’ Sip, she has no memory of how she got there. With a terrible headache and a major case of déjà vu, she heads home only to discover that five years have passed . . . yet she hasn’t aged a day. 

Everything else about Kyra’s old life is different. Her parents are divorced, her boyfriend, Austin, is in college and dating her best friend, and her dad has changed from an uptight neat-freak to a drunken conspiracy theorist who blames her five-year disappearance on little green men. 

Confused and lost, Kyra isn’t sure how to move forward unless she uncovers the truth. With Austin gone, she turns to Tyler, Austin’s annoying kid brother, who is now seventeen and who she has a sudden undeniable attraction to. As Tyler and Kyra retrace her steps from the fateful night of her disappearance, they discover strange phenomena that no one can explain, and they begin to wonder if Kyra’s father is not as crazy as he seems. There are others like her who have been taken . . . and returned. Kyra races to find an explanation and reclaim the life she once had, but what if the life she wants back is not her own?

Shall we read this one next beings that we read our other ones lol

LOL! Maybe we should read this one next... Oh the process of elimination.... ;)

I can read this whenever you are ready - just let me know.

Haha will do, just finishing one so maybe tomorrow sometime?

Sounds perfect!

I started listening to this one on my way into work this morning and was able to get through Chap 1 & 2 (out of the 20 listed on audio).

I'm enjoying Tavia Gilbert's narrating which is definitely a plus - as you know! (Loved her narrating in Jeanine Frosts 'Night Huntress' series.)

It won't give anything away to say she has just returned back to her life 5 years later - although it seems like only one night to her. I REALLY feel for her.... You can empathize how overwhelming it must be for her to take everything in and assimilate.

ooh I'm on my way home just finishing my other one and can start it.

:) Let me know when you get to chapter 3 and I'll start reading again. It seems like one of those books you can fly right through if you're not careful. (Like The Eighth Guardian!)

Oh dear lol

Ok I've started!
I'm up to the bit where she has gone to see Austin at his house, but it's not him it's his brother!
Yep you're right, gonna be a quick one lol

okay I'm on chapter 3, you can carry on haha!

Yay!

Ooh I'm on chapter 5 in the bookstore (another word for scavenger hunt!)
Tyler sounds yummy lol

Liking the book, she's just met Austin again!
But is isn't explaining anything about where she has been,, it's concentrating more on the Tyler thing!

Just starting ch5 - seems kind of weird she gets so much alone time. I would think people (like her parents) would be fawning all over her and wanting to make up for lost time. The mom seems so distant... I'm not a fan of mom so far..

I feel so bad for Kyra!

No me either, and her dad is weird lol

My crazy family keeps coming by today - making reading hard! LOL! I'm going to be able to catch up tonight though :)

Part 2-Chapter 12 (view spoiler)[ FINALLY! I wondered why she never was more curious about what happened to her over her missing 5 years! Thank God for Simon... Finally some answers!! (Hopefully!) (hide spoiler)]

PS - Austin is such an ass.

Ooh you are way past me, I've been out singing so will plug in and catch up, well try, it's 1.30am so I may just fall asleep and have to rewind it all again tomorrow lol.
Will read your spoilers when I catch up a bit x

I forget about the time change! I am putting it away today too. ;)

lol step away from the audio book ha ha

LOL! I know, right?!!!!

Part 2 they have just escaped into the woods.

(view spoiler)[liked the part with the cutting and healing. (hide spoiler)]

I'm going to catch up tonight! I haven't been able to read much today. :(

I know - pretty wild, right?! I'm not sure where you are now. I'm audio's chapter 17 - which would be officially chapter 16 in the book I think.

(view spoiler)[Tyler can't be sick! Nooooo....... (Funny how she was over Austin so quickly. Not sure what she saw in him to begin with, so maybe that's part of it.) Glad they are back with Simon now though! Can't wait to get more answers on how her cutting herself had a bad effect on Tyler... (hide spoiler)]

I'm nearly finished it now, on 97% I think so should be finished by the afternoon. I'll let you catch up and then we can chat lol

And yes you are right (view spoiler)[ Austin obviously wasn't that bloody important,she doesn't seem that bothered now that she is in love with his 12 yr old brother ewww lol (hide spoiler)]

LOL!! Ha-Ha! I know - it seems like that would take some time to get past...especially since it was like just YESTERDAY to Kyra... I finished the book this morning! Course, I had to look to see where book two was and was so disappointed to see that they don't even have a cover for it... no ETA year of publishing it either... WTH?

Are you done? I wasn't 100% sure...

(view spoiler)[Are we to believe that Tyler was taken by the aliens and was returned at the epilogue, along with her dad?? And, we still don't know anything about what happened while she was gone those 5 years with the little green men... Sooooooo many unanswered questions!!!! Grrrr... (hide spoiler)]

Just finished
(view spoiler)[
What a crappy ending !!!
It didn't answer any questions about Kyra at ALL we were just expected to go with the fact that she'd been abducted and now has super powers!, Yeah so Tyler and her dad were taken.......but apparently not the agent ?? I wasn't that taken with the book .....haha did you see what I did there?? (hide spoiler)]

HaHa! Maybe they should have called it "NOT Taken"! But then you're so left hanging, I feel stuck needing to read the next book to get some flippin answers...

And if there are no answers in the NEXT book, there will be hell to pay! LOL!!!!

Haha i know!