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A review by operasara
A Girl Named Digit by Annabel Monaghan
5.0
A Girl Named Digit by Annabel Monaghan follows Farrah a math wiz who finds herself tangled up with the FBI after cracking a code that detected a terrorist attack. Farrah has never been normal. She's not just a math wiz but has a compulsion to order everything in her life. After having a hard time with bullies in middle school she decides to hide who she is in High School. She lives an unhappy life, lying to everyone and herself about who she is until the unthinkable happens. After cracking a code of numbers that appear on television a plane is bombed at the local airport and she realizes that she could have prevented it. She goes to the FBI and finds herself running from the terrorists while trying to crack the code to prevent another bombing and dealing with her attraction to her young FBI handler.
I loved this book. It was cute and funny and I loved Farrah learning to come to terms with the intelligence that she had always hidden before. It reminded me a lot of Meg Cabot's Vanished series (which is also awesome, go read those if you haven't already) in tone. A cool and interesting mystery and a special ability combined with a sexy older (but not too much older) love interest. I tore through this book and hope that there are more Digit books in the future.
Appropriateness: At the beginning of the book we are introduced to the life that Farrah isn't happy with which includes going to parties and drinking (but she does not get drunk) and making out with guys (which she describes as unappealing). The FBI agent/love interest is older than her (she is seventeen and he is 21) and the age (minor/adult) difference between the two is mentioned frequently as a major obstacle. There is no sex and the physical nature of their relationship is limited to kissing although the two do spend the night in the same room (and on the same couch) while they are on the run. I would recommend this book for teens 13+ and encourage parents to use it as a starting point to discuss being yourself and also to discuss statutory rape and the reason that teen/adult relationships are not appropriate and illegal and why exactly it was so important for John that they wait on their relationship until Farrah turned eighteen.
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I loved this book. It was cute and funny and I loved Farrah learning to come to terms with the intelligence that she had always hidden before. It reminded me a lot of Meg Cabot's Vanished series (which is also awesome, go read those if you haven't already) in tone. A cool and interesting mystery and a special ability combined with a sexy older (but not too much older) love interest. I tore through this book and hope that there are more Digit books in the future.
Appropriateness: At the beginning of the book we are introduced to the life that Farrah isn't happy with which includes going to parties and drinking (but she does not get drunk) and making out with guys (which she describes as unappealing). The FBI agent/love interest is older than her (she is seventeen and he is 21) and the age (minor/adult) difference between the two is mentioned frequently as a major obstacle. There is no sex and the physical nature of their relationship is limited to kissing although the two do spend the night in the same room (and on the same couch) while they are on the run. I would recommend this book for teens 13+ and encourage parents to use it as a starting point to discuss being yourself and also to discuss statutory rape and the reason that teen/adult relationships are not appropriate and illegal and why exactly it was so important for John that they wait on their relationship until Farrah turned eighteen.
Review copy provided by Amazon Vine