The Darkest Minds

The Darkest Minds
Information
Author/s	Alexandra Bracken
Release Date	December 18th 2012
Publisher	Disney Hyperion
Series	The Darkest Minds Series
Pages	488
Chronology
Preceded by N/A	Followed by In Time
Release Order
Released after N/A	Released before Never Fade

The Darkest Minds is the first novel in the Darkest Minds Series by Alexandra Bracken.

Synopsis

When Ruby woke up on her tenth birthday, something about her had changed. Something frightening enough to make her parents lock her in the garage and call the police. Something that got her sent to Thurmond, a brutal government “rehabilitation camp.” She might have survived the mysterious disease that had killed most of America’s children, but she and the others emerged with something far worse: frightening abilities they could not control.

Now sixteen, Ruby is one of the dangerous ones. She is a orange, one who can control others. When the truth comes out, Ruby barely escapes Thurmond with her life. She is on the run, desperate to find the only safe haven left for kids like her—East River. She joins a group of kids who have escaped their own camp. Liam, their brave leader, is falling hard for Ruby. But no matter how much she aches for him, Ruby can’t risk getting close. Not after what happened to her parents. When they arrive at East River, nothing is as it seems, least of all its mysterious leader. But there are other forces at work, people who will stop at nothing to use Ruby in their fight against the government. Ruby will be faced with a terrible choice, one that may mean giving up her only chance at having a life worth living.

Plot

Across the United States, children are dying at alarming rates to a disease known as IAAN. Ruby Daly, a ten year old child watches as most of her classmates die, and she has no idea if she will be next.

Little does everyone know that the children who don't succumb to IAAN develop strange abilities that are later classified according to colors: Red, Orange, Yellow, Green, and Blue. Ruby Daly is one of the few children that survives. After being taken from her home by Psi Special Forces Officers, or PSFs, She is loaded onto a bus with many other children and taken to a camp in West Virginia called Thurmond.

Before she can be taken off the bus, however, one of the psi kids uses his abilities as an orange to mind control one of the PSFs into shooting herself in order to cause a distraction and escape. This plan backfires and the rest of the kids are assessed in their abilities.

Characters

Ruby Daly, the protagonist of the story, Liam Stewart, Clancy Gray, Charles Meriweather or "Chubs", Suzume or "Zu" and Cate Conner. Other characters: Martin, Sam, Olivia, Lady Jane, Rob Meadows and others.