This will give me nightmares.
I usually can avoid them by reading while still being in the same room. Alas, I had no books checked out and so resigned myself that cruising Pinterest would be enough distraction. I should have known better. The movie started to creep me out in the first 5 minutes. You know it's going to bad when the main characters are two young women alone in a foreign countries. The most I'm going to say about this movie is that some SICK F came up with the idea of making a crazy ass German guy turn 3 people into a human centipede. It is seriously the most twisted crap I have ever seen. If you are curious, check out the link above. Let me just tell you that my hubby told me, "Whatever you do, DON'T LOOK," about 20 times. So, of course I peeked about 12 of those and have been trying to figure out how to pour bleach into my brain ever since. 
It's not a real product, believe me I tried to find it.
So, after the movie finished, the hubby stretched, kissed me goodnight and left me curled in the fetal position on the couch. I knew there was no way I was going to get to sleep without trying to flush those images out of my mind, so I got on my amazon account and searched for something cheap to buy that might still be engrossing. Enter:
I did not check my goodreads, just read the blurb on amazon and clicked buy. (Faceplant) Here is the summary from goodreads:
"In 2022, the United States commissioned a group of scientists to experiment with genetic mutations. Their goal was to create a serum that would alter the human genetic code, making the subject stronger and faster. They succeeded but their victory was short lived. Not only had they created a super serum, but also an airborne virus. By 2025, seventy-five percent of the world's population had perished. The survivors, well their lives would never be the same.
175 A.V.
Ally is an Ordinary; a human immune to the virus. She lives in a settlement outside the City with her mother and twin brother, but lately it doesn't seem to be enough. She is wrestling between being with her family and volunteering to move to the City, where she can work for the Exceptionals.
Luke is an Exceptional; a superior human being. His ancestors were infected with the virus and lived through it, leaving their super human strength and special abilities to him. He has never given much thought to Ordinarys, despite pressure from his father to choose one from the ORC. But all of that changes when he meets Ally... "
175 A.V.
Ally is an Ordinary; a human immune to the virus. She lives in a settlement outside the City with her mother and twin brother, but lately it doesn't seem to be enough. She is wrestling between being with her family and volunteering to move to the City, where she can work for the Exceptionals.
Luke is an Exceptional; a superior human being. His ancestors were infected with the virus and lived through it, leaving their super human strength and special abilities to him. He has never given much thought to Ordinarys, despite pressure from his father to choose one from the ORC. But all of that changes when he meets Ally... "
I know, sounds pretty good, right? Well, it was, kind of. I can't really put my finger on what I didn't like about the book. It just felt kind of unfinished. The ending is a HUGE cliffhanger, which royally pisses me off, but that wasn't the problem. It felt like the characters weren't super developed and that things had been left out that made the characters feel or act the way they were acting. I don't know. It's supposed to be some great romance, but I still don't know WHY Luke is so crazy about Ally or WHY Ally is so crazy about Luke. I get the whole world the author created, why Luke acts the way he does with his father and why Ally acts the way she does about her family. There is just the whole development of their falling in love that was missing. I need some romance, attraction, something. And I didn't get it. The book is a quick read. It follows the dystopian YA formula pretty well. The concept was really cool and I loved the way the author constructed what was happening in the world (except at the end- then you're like WTF?!?! why are you going THERE?). The most I can say about the novel is:
However, it did succeed in distracting me from the horrors I'd inflicted on myself earlier and I had no nightmares.
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