Review: Refraction

Refraction by Naomi Hughes
My rating: 5 of 5 stars

I fell asleep reading REFRACTION - Naomi Hughes- and promptly jumped right back in to finish it the next day! Awesome, original, fast paced sci-fi read provided for review purposes. I can’t wait for my teen to read it next.

With the earth covered in fog after an alien ship looking like glass is shot, all mirrors and reflective surfaces are banned / outlawed on the island where the mayor rules without mercy for sellers and buyers. Reflective surfaces are portals which bring in horrors and death to anyone looking into the reflections, and some unlucky enough to be bystanders.

Marty sells mirrors on the black market desperately hoping to be able to get to his brother in London, but ends up caught & exiled along with the mayor’s son who was trying to bust him. Marty & his nemesis Elliot (aka The Boy Scout - Eagle Scout, The Shadowhunter, mayor’s son) are both exiled into the fog where the horrors roam free. YES, the mayor, set on making her fog-free island a safe haven, exiles her own son for buying a mirror to capture Marty.

As the two enemies, Marty (aka criminal) & Elliot (Boy Scout) try to survive in the fog, they realize everything isn’t as they originally thought. They have to learn to work together through Marty’s OCD & both of their own issues simply to survive their worst fears. The OCD adds interesting challenges without actually overpowering the action, fear, and terror feel of the story.

This book is exciting and full of twists and turns. The beings that come from the mirrors are pretty freaky, gory, and detailed. Things from your worse nightmare kind of stuff.

#refraction #naomihughes

** My 14 year old read it in 2 days! Loved it too.


Book Description:

Description
After an attack on earth, all reflective surfaces become weapons to release monsters, causing a planet-wide ban on mirrors. Despite the danger, the demand rises, and 17-year-old Marty Callahan becomes a distributor in an illegal mirror trade—until he’s caught by the mayor's son, whose slate is far from clean. Both of them are exiled for their crimes to one of the many abandoned cities overrun by fog. But they soon realize their thoughts influence their surroundings and their deepest fears begin to manifest.

With fast pacing and riveting characters, this is a book that you’ll finish in one sitting.

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