Synopsis: The Bourne Identity meets Divergent in this heart-pounding debut.
Sixteen-year-old Sarah has a rare chance at a new life. Or so the doctors tell her. She’s been undergoing a cutting-edge procedure that will render her a tabula rasa—a blank slate. Memory by memory her troubled past is being taken away.
But when her final surgery is interrupted and a team of elite soldiers invades the isolated hospital under cover of a massive blizzard, her fresh start could be her end.
Navigating familiar halls that have become a dangerous maze with the help of a teen computer hacker who's trying to bring the hospital down for his own reasons, Sarah starts to piece together who she is and why someone would want her erased. And she won’t be silenced again.
A high-stakes thriller featuring a non-stop race for survival and a smart heroine who will risk everything, Tabula Rasa is, in short, unforgettable.
Review: This book was really like Divergent (I've never seen the Bourne Identity...I know, I know.) High action, large men with guns, a raging blizzard, a creepy hospital, and a love interest all rolled into one story makes for a fairly good story.
Sarah is a strong female lead. Sure, she has many vulnerabilities. Mostly because of her Tabula Rasa treatments; how can she be rock solid when she doesn't know who she is or where she came from? She relearns her history through little flashbacks of memory, which I really found to be a great piece to this story. Her interactions with Thomas (the computer hacker) were fresh and at times comical and other times emotional.
The plot was original- a secret hospital performing brain wiping? Then one night soldiers invade and from there, this is a twisting, turning plot. Some of the twists were so unexpected!! It was nice to read such an original idea and think that it would make a cool sci-fi novel if they focused more on the background and procedure.
Sarah is a strong female lead. Sure, she has many vulnerabilities. Mostly because of her Tabula Rasa treatments; how can she be rock solid when she doesn't know who she is or where she came from? She relearns her history through little flashbacks of memory, which I really found to be a great piece to this story. Her interactions with Thomas (the computer hacker) were fresh and at times comical and other times emotional.
The plot was original- a secret hospital performing brain wiping? Then one night soldiers invade and from there, this is a twisting, turning plot. Some of the twists were so unexpected!! It was nice to read such an original idea and think that it would make a cool sci-fi novel if they focused more on the background and procedure.
I would recommend this book for any fans of Divergent, as well as any dystopian and/or sci-fi novel fans!
*I received this book from the publisher through Netgalley in exchange for an honest review.
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