BUYING ADVISORY: MS, HS - ADVISABLE
AUDIENCE APPEAL: AVERAGE
When 17yo Becky is assigned to show the new guy around her Indiana high school, she has no idea what she’s getting into. Gene is unlike anyone Becky has ever known - he wears a blue suit and carries a briefcase on his first day of school. Gene has been home schooled his entire life, and becoming a senior in high school is not easy. Luckily he has Becky to help him learn to fit in. But the more time Becky spends with him, the more she realizes Gene is not a normal teenage boy. He is beyond brilliant, knows every fact, learns to play the saxophone like a pro overnight, and suddenly becomes a star basketball player. Most importantly, the more time they spend together, the deeper in love with each other they become. When the truth comes out about Gene’s origins, the two must work together to stay alive and to keep his secrets safe.
Every teen dreams of a life filled with non-stop action and sweeping romance, and Walters definitely delivers both. The sweetness of the love story encompasses the beginning, and then almost without warning the adrenaline rush begins as Gene and Becky steal cars, crash-land an airplane, and run across country to keep each other safe. Although there is a fair amount of fighting and gun-wielding, and even kissing, none of it is at all graphic, and the pair do all they can to refrain from using violence to solve their problems.
Tammie H, Librarian
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