Cover Love: Yes. I think this cover is very eye catching!
Why I Wanted to Read This:
The synopsis was intriguing to me, it made me want to more as soon as I could so I read it! Here's the synopsis from Good Reads:
Seventeen-year-old David Sullivan’s life is about to change—all because of one tiny, priceless item found in the murky bottom of a Brooklyn water tower.Romance?: Yes. Sully and Hunter have some good chemistry.
Sully is a sphere dealer at a flea market. It doesn’t pay much—Alex Holliday’s stores have muscled out most of the independent sellers—but it helps him and his mom make rent.
No one knows where the brilliant-colored spheres came from. One day they were just there, hidden all over the earth like huge gemstones. Burn a pair and they make you a little better: an inch taller, skilled at math, better-looking. The rarer the sphere, the more expensive—and the greater the improvement.
When Sully meets Hunter, a girl with a natural talent for finding spheres, the two start searching together. One day they find a Gold—a color no one has ever seen. And when Alex Holliday learns what they have, he will go to any lengths, will use all of his wealth and power, to take it from them.
There’s no question the Gold is worth millions, but what does it actually do? None of them is aware of it yet, but the fate of the world rests on this little golden orb. Because all the world fights over the spheres, but no one knows where they come from, what their powers are, or why they’re here.
My Thoughts:
This book was a really good read: quick and interesting. The author did a great job doling out information slowly, but not too slowly. Just enough to keep you going to the next page to get more about the world Sully lived in. The most interesting thing is that this world is one that is everything like ours, except there are these spheres that enhance the people who use them. There are spheres that enhance hearing or make you faster. Sully is a sphere dealer. He sells them, but has never used them himself. However, he is famous because he found the most rare sphere ever, a Cherry Red. He sold it to a collector for two million dollars, but when this collector "burned" them (you need two of the same color to use them) and they didn't enhance anything for him, he voided the check he had given Sully.
Nobody knows where the spheres had come from, but everyone tries to get their hands on them. This is a very interesting world the author has created. There are super common spheres and really rare spheres. There are books about what spheres can do what and how much the rare ones are worth. Sully is an expert on spheres so when he meets up with a girl, named Hunter, who wants to hunt spheres with him, he jumps at the chance. And soon they find the most rare sphere of all, a Gold. Having this very rare sphere makes Sully and Hunter a target from powerful people who will stop at nothing to get this sphere.
I liked the pacing of this book. Once the Gold spheres gets burned the information comes quick and I liked how the "climax" of the story is not drawn out page after page. I also appreciated the ending because I don't mind a neatly tied up finish to a book. And I know that my middle school readers will appreciate it as well. This will be a great book to hand to a reader who just wants something "different."
To Sum Up: I am excited for next fall to get this book into the hands of readers who want something interesting with action but don't want to commit to a series or one with a lot of pages.
Book bought for my school library collection.
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