Minders
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- $14.99
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- $14.99
Publisher Description
"A dark, dangerous and twisty near-future mystery from the incomparable Michelle Jaffe. Don't miss this book!"--Melissa de la Cruz, New York Times Bestselling Author of Blue Bloods
Q: If the boy you love commits a crime, would you turn him in?
Sadie Ames is a type-A teenager from the wealthy suburbs. She's been accepted to the prestigious Mind Corps Fellowship program, where she'll spend six weeks as an observer inside the head of Ford, a troubled boy with a passion for the crumbling architecture of the inner city. There's just one problem: Sadie's fallen in love with him.
Q: What if the crime is murder?
Ford Winters is haunted by the murder of his older brother, James. As Sadie falls deeper into his world, dazzled by the shimmering pinpricks of color that form images in his mind, she begins to think she knows him. Then Ford does something unthinkable.
Q: What if you saw it happen from inside his mind?
Back in her own body, Sadie is faced with the ultimate dilemma. With Ford's life in her hands, she must decide what is right and what is wrong. And how well she can really ever know someone, even someone she loves.
A high concept, cinematic read with a surprising twist, MINDERS asks the question: who is really watching who?
PUBLISHERS WEEKLY
Sadie Ames is a Minder. Privileged and high achieving, she has won a prestigious fellowship from the Roque Mind Corps to study a fellow human being in the most intimate way by entering that person's mind. Ford is a Subject: impoverished, enraged, and ignorant. He doesn't know that Roque Industries, via its community health outreach program, has planted a chip in his brain that allows Sadie to ride along, looking out of his eyes and experiencing his every thought and emotion. The premise is enticing, though Jaffe's exploration of it is laden with exposition and slow to unfold. As a character, Sadie is little more than her over-packed college application, and her observations (and judgments) of Ford take too long to coalesce into a plot. While Jaffe (Ghost Flower) plausibly sets up the mind-reading conceit, such effort is not invested upfront in her characters. It takes a couple hundred pages to get past the stereotypical prim nerd and angry thug, and readers may struggle to invest in Sadie and Ford, despite the mounting danger around then. Ages 12 up.
