BOOK REVIEW: The Taking by Kimberly Derting

Title: The Taking
Author: Kimberly Derting
Publisher: HarperTeen
Publication Date: April 29th, 2014
Genre(s): Young Adult, Science Fiction
Format: Hardback
Pages: 368

When sixteen-year-old Kyra Agnew wakes up behind a Dumpster at the Gas ’n’ Sip, she has no memory of how she got there. With a terrible headache and a major case of déjà vu, she heads home only to discover that five years have passed . . . yet she hasn’t aged a day. 
Everything else about Kyra’s old life is different. Her parents are divorced, her boyfriend, Austin, is in college and dating her best friend, and her dad has changed from an uptight neat-freak to a drunken conspiracy theorist who blames her five-year disappearance on little green men. 
Confused and lost, Kyra isn’t sure how to move forward unless she uncovers the truth. With Austin gone, she turns to Tyler, Austin’s annoying kid brother, who is now seventeen and who she has a sudden undeniable attraction to. As Tyler and Kyra retrace her steps from the fateful night of her disappearance, they discover strange phenomena that no one can explain, and they begin to wonder if Kyra’s father is not as crazy as he seems. There are others like her who have been taken . . . and returned. Kyra races to find an explanation and reclaim the life she once had, but what if the life she wants back is not her own?

I was excited for this book for sure! The synopsis really interested me. All I knew was there is this one girl, who disappeared for 5 years, and didn't age at all. So, I thought this was a contemporary read, when Kyra has to deal with her life where everyone had moved on from her.

Buuuuuuuuuttttt ... It turned out to be a science fiction too. So, it is basically a contemporary combined with science fiction in one book. You have to read this book to understand what I'm talking about. I cannot tell anything anymore about this book without giving out the plot. I do really want you guys to read this book, just knowing the synopsis. Because you will enjoying this book more when you didn't expecting anything at all.

Personally, I liked this book, it was a really fun and enjoyable read. I read it in one day, it was really good. But I felt like there are something missing even though I can't tell you what it was, so I gave it 4 stars.

Happy reading! :)

-Nikita