Michael Vey, Richard Paul Evans

Michael Vey is an interesting fiction story. It has a certain addictive quality to it. It was very easy to get connected to the characters. It was written in a way where every page leaves you wondering what will happen next.

This is Michael's story, it is his story of becoming his own hero. When he was born there was an experimental devise being tested at the same hospital. It was called the Magnetic Electron Induction (MEI). It malfunctioned and as a result gave Michael and sixteen other children strange electric abilities. During a regular encounter with the school bully Michael makes an unusual ally, the very pretty, very popular cheerleader Taylor Ridley. She happens to also be one of the seventeen electric children. After doing some investigation they find out that they are being hunted. This organization, known as Elgen Academy, took Michael's mother and Taylor away. So with the aide of his best friend Ostin and two recently turned enemies Michael set out to save them. This story is also told from Taylor's point of view. It provides an intriguing insight into the other side of this war and Dr. Hatch's intentions for the electric children and the Elgen Academy.

Richard Paul Evans goes over several issues, but the one that stood out to me was the value of a human life. Dr. Hatch wants to create more electric children but in order to do that he must kill several other babies in order to find out why those specific seventeen lived and the others did not. Is ending one hundred lives worth trying to improve one life? I don't think so. Everyone deserves to live and no one should be treated like a lab rat.

This book had me hook, line, and sinker from the first page. You will fall in love with characters. They are so easy to relate to. You can't help but feel how they feel. In the end you will be willing them to win. I know I was. Characters like Michael, Ostin, and Zeus are the reason I give this book an A+.