Product Details

• Amazon Sales Rank: #1058597 in Books
• Published on: 1999-10-01
• Original language: English
• Binding: Paperback
• 230 pages

Synopsis
Kaitlyn Fairchild's prophetic drawings frighten her, but she is offered a scholarship to the Zetes Institute with four other psychically gifted students that seems like a new beginning--until they discover an experiment that can destroy them all.

Customer Reviews

I look forward to reading the next book in the trilogy
I have to admit that I enjoy tales of psychic powers in almost any genre - from horror stories to fantasy/romance. Here is a very enjoyable example. L J Smith has clearly put a bit of effort into her research of the various studies made into psychic power, and has used that as the basis of this first book in a trilogy about a group of 5 teenagers with psychic abilities who are recruited ostensibly for an academic study. The book is told for the most part from the viewpoint of Kaitlyn, who finds that the things she draws often come true. Kait is from Ohio, and feels very alienated from her peers because she is not 'normal'. She is eager to be recruited for the study, and makes the move to California where she meets the other 4 who are also part of the study.

The story has several classic elements - teenagers who do not fit in, the 'golden boy' vs the dark, sullen dangerous type, the evil professor, and the menacing threat that looms in a dark cloud way on the horizon. The underlying story of the drawing together of a gifted group of people that don't belong anywhere into a unit in themselves was put together very well. I liked the use of the 'web', and that the members were initially (and indeed still at the close of the book) uncertain of their reaction - on the one hand enjoying the feeling of closeness and belonging, on the other now not able to effectively hide from each other even for moments of privacy.

The only thing I found annoying was that Kait, who is at the start of the book so unimpressed with boys, and so aware of why she feels that way, 'fell in love' with Rob in only one day. It was just too much of a quick turnaround for me to find believable - not only the rapid 180 of Kaits personal viewpoint, but that we were then supposed to buy into the depth of her feelings for him.

L.J. Smith is a prolific writer, and here's another trilogy I look forward to reading to it's conclusion.

Simply a great page-turner of a trilogy- I spy a TV series?!
Although at 20 I feel I should be reading more 'adult' literature, I can't help coming back to this trilogy every so often!!! It's just simply a page-turner, and the characters are so likeable. I agree with others that it would seem begging for translation onto screen, especially now the whole vampire/supernatural thing is seeing a revival with Buffy (which incedentally seems to be flagging and running out of ideas of late IMHO). What a great idea for a tv series - a group of psychic friends, thrown together and soon finding themselves caught up in a stonking 'good vs evil' battle, in a story laced with plenty of suspense and romance! But who could possibly do justice to the wonderfully dangerous and smoulderingly gorgeous Gabriel? Damn, what IS it about bad boys that we girls can't resist?!!

Ohmigod give me the next one!!!
This book is sooo amazing even my friends loved it, i mean you can so adapt to all the characters and i really want to know what happens next i've read it over and over again for some clue. i really think she should be with gabriel, robs too goody goody. if you love this you'll love everything else shes written...