Open Minds by Susan Kaye QuinnMy rating: 4 of 5 stars
I'm always excited to pick up a dystopian book where mind powers are involved, just because I find it fascinating to see how the characters deal with the ethics of their powers/abilities. And that's one of the best parts about this book--there's definitely a whole lot of ethics here. It's also unusual and that the whole society is filled with people who have some kind of mental ability (most are 'readers' and can read minds). I don't think I've ever read anything where the abnormal person is the person without any kind of mental ability. So Kira is one of those abnormals, a 'zero' who can't read minds like everyone else around her. Or so she thinks. It isn't long before she finds out she can mindjack, something quite alarming because of the control it allows someone who has the ability.
Kira also has to deal with the traditional dystopian love triangle, but not in the usual way. There's Raf, the steady best friend who never cared that she was zero. He understood how she was. Then there's Simon, who teaches her to be a mindjacker--in her eyes, she understands who she now is. I found myself rooting for both boys at different times, which I liked...I could sympathize with the characters I didn't even want to be sympathetic for.
It was well written, a quick read, and the plotlines were very interesting to follow. Occasionally scene shifts felt a little jerky--whenever she went to a new place it felt very abrupt, and I sometimes had to re-orient myself, since the whole tone of the story seemed to shift with the new scenes. It almost felt like each scene could have been expanded into a book of its own, if the author wanted to, but hey, I was okay with this method too. Definitely recommend it!
This digital copy of Open Minds was given to me by NetGalley & Susan Kaye Quinn in exchange for an honest review.
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