e-Audio, 09:08:59
Narrated by: Jeremy Carlisle Parker
Release Date: January 7, 2025
Published by: Books on Tape (Candlewick Press)
Read from: December 26-30, 2024
Stand-alone (???)
Source: PRH Audio App (I received a copy of this e-ALC from the publisher in exchange for a just and honest review. This did nothing to influence my review.)
Content Warning: Confinement, Cursing, Death,
For Readers Interested In: YA, 2sLGBTQ+ (Sapphic- Lesbian), Adventure, Action, Mystery, Thriller, Bombshell/Cliffhanger Endings,This riveting, superpowered adventure unveils a shadow world of Talented bounty hunters—and plumbs the nature of identity, deadly secrets, and found family.
Tru has been hiding all her life. Her parents taught her to conceal her bastion Talent: indestructible skin, muscles, and bones. In a world where Talents are common and varied, no one trusts a bastion—they’re too powerful. Hiding failed to keep Tru’s parents alive, but moments before their murder, Tru’s mom pointed her to Logan Dire, a famed recluse assassin who adopted and trained orphaned Tru. At seventeen, she’s still hiding. Not even her closest friends know her true name or Talent, or that she’s balancing high school with knife and stealth training (while crushing on her BFF’s older sister). When assassins interrupt a mundane babysitting job booked through BountyApp—where lethal hunters find work and babysitters for their kids—Tru flees with a one-year-old strapped to her chest and spiraling questions: Who killed her parents? Whom can she trust? What does it mean to be a bastion? And is it ever OK to kiss a girl who’s trying to hunt you down? From an award-winning author comes a masterfully plotted thriller that holds character and relationship on a par with action and nail-biting suspense.
*MY THOUGHTS*
I don’t know what I was expecting when I picked this up to read, but it wasn’t THIS. If you like adventure thrillers, with some weird action parts along the way, you are going to love this like I did. And if you’ve read it already or you read it later on, please come back and let me know. I need to talk to someone about that ending and what they think it means.
Ok so this was so good! I was pulled in by the title. I don’t know what I thought it meant, but it wasn’t this. This book feels like The Babysitter’s Club and John Wick rolled into one. It really reminded me of the night that Edna Mode was babysitting Jack-Jack lol This convinced me that I REALLY need to start looking at the synopsis because I was just dropped into this and was like OMG. It was unhinged, but I was HOOKED. I mean can you imagine doing all the things that the talents are for but with a BABY?!
I do wish we got some more back story tho. Why was this happening? What made the world turn this way? How were the talents developed? How come they still didn’t know much about certain ones? I still had too many questions. I know this might be a ME thing, so I would say give it a try. If you’ don’t care about every single base being covered, then you’ll give this 5 stars I promise.
I don’t want to say much because of spoilers, so I will say this. This is going to be wonderful to read with the students for Tournament of Books competition. Making questions for it is going to be fun. And the end?! Yoooo I need a sequel lol Please don’t do this to me. I need to know how things are now that things have been seen and done lol I would also like a prequel to see how the world got this way lmao I know I’m asking for a lot, but Idc. I don’t mind waiting lol
This was a lot of fun. I really hope that y’all read and enjoy this one. I think it really is going to surprise a lot of people out there. So please, read this so I can have someone to talk to about it. At the very least tell me if you think there will be more. I need to know I’m not alone.
Overall, I give this
