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Numbers 2: The Chaos by Rachel Ward
Summary from Amazon: Adam sees 'numbers' - when he looks in peoples' eyes he can see their death-dates, just like his mum Jem used to. Adam has trouble dealing with his awful gift, and when he realises that everyone around him has the same series of numbers, he becomes deeply afraid of what might happen in 2025. Desperate to find out what could be about to go wrong, Adam spends hours researching possibilities - war, nuclear accidents, killer viruses. He knows something big is coming, but what? And is there anything he can possibly do about it?I read the first Numbers book earlier this year and was drawn in by its gritty, unflinching take on what it might really be like to have a supernatural power you can't switch off. Judging from this summary, Numbers 2 is set to seriously raise the stakes: the end of the world is nigh, and our protagonist is the only one who knows about it. It may just be the first pre-apocalyptic YA novel I've read.
This one's due out June 2010 in the UK, by which time our US friends will have had plenty of time to catch themselves up on the first book. I don't have supernatural powers, but I'm foreseeing must read.
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I'm smiling to myself. Every post you write makes me chuckle. Okay, so maybe I should read Numbers next. I'm having one of those "I don't know what to read days".
Interesting pick! Numbers sounds great!
You make me giggle! :D I can't wait to read this either.
Okay, so I havent read the first one, but i think i should, right? :)
I am still eager for the first one and now there's a second! WOO!
:O A second!!! I CANT wait for the FIRST! :)
I've heard great things about the first book and now there's a sequel already?! Wow, must read both eventually, they sound really good!
I need to read Numbers because this sounds like it will blow my head off!!! woot woot
I still need to read the first one too! Lovely post. :)
Love. That. Cover! Can I just say that the UK covers for these books blows the US cover out of the water? Luckily I have both US and UK copies. Looking forward to reading them! :)
Fun looking book--I really want to read this! Haven't read the first one yet so I probably should. Thanks for reviewing this--you come up with so many cool books that I need to read.
:O There's a second one?! Looove the cover <3
I was a bit torn by the first book - I loved the writing style, the premise, the main characters but I just found it so bleak - it is a story that has stayed with me though so I kind of like the idea of revisiting it with the sequel which sounds rather ace!
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