Conspiracy 365: February by Gabrielle Lord
I didn’t actively go out and search for this book so that I could continue with the series. My little sister got her first tattoo a few weeks back and while my mom and I were waiting for her to be done, we wandered around the used book store across the street and lo and behold! Conspiracy 365: February was right there waiting for me. They also had May, but I didn’t want to get too far ahead of myself. Continue reading
Conspiracy 365: January by Gabrielle Lord
I found this entire series on a trip to a local used book store with two of my friends. We all thought it looked hilariously bad, so I bought the first book. I mean, it was only two dollars, and I thought I’d probably get a laugh out of it. Worth it in my opinion.
The main premise of the book is that on New Year’s Eve Cal is told (by a crazy man wandering the street) that something called the Orland Singularity killed his father and now they’re going to kill him if he doesn’t lay low for 365 days, until midnight on December 31st. Cal’s dad died 6 months ago of a virus that ate away at his brain, and Cali doesn’t believe this man.
Then shit goes down. He’s almost killed, can’t trust his uncle, kidnapped, beaten, on the run at only 15 years old. He acquires drawings his father did before the virus finally killed him, and knows that there’s something in them that’s important, that his father wanted him to know and that everyone else seems to be after him for. If only he could figure it out!
With all this happening, Cal feels he can only really trust his best friend, Boges, with all the information. He doesn’t want to drag his Mom in since she’s still dealing with his dad’s death, and then all the other bad luck that the family has been having since then (which, believe me, is a lot).
It wasn’t as hilariously awful as the general look of the book had led me to think. Yet another reason not to judge a book by its cover. It wasn’t a masterpiece work of Young Adult literature, but not bad. Actually, I’m tempted to buy the next book (February) just because this book ended on such a cliffhanger. And I hadn’t really realized until then just how much the book had sucked me in.
A fun addition to the plot of the book, which counts down how many more days Cal has to stay alive (as each chapter is the start of a new day), was that the pages of the book begin at 185, then count down to 1.
Overall, I think I’d give this book an 9/10. It was well-written and had me involved in the plot before I knew it. Also, it was a fast read, which sometimes you just need to read a book that you know isn’t going to take you weeks. I’d give it a 10/10, but the front cover of the book really needs to be redesigned. It makes potential readers think the book is going to be much different than it actually is. Also, there weren’t exactly plot holes in the book, but there were some parts where I was sure what was happening wasn’t exactly realistic, even in this conspiracy that Cal finds himself in.
Read on!
Molly
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