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A review by cweichel
Hatch by Kenneth Oppel
5.0
In Bloom, the first in this series, a strange rain fell from the skies and deadly alien plants started taking over the planet.
By the end of it, scientists, with the help of three hybrid teenagers, seemed to have a pesticide to control them. The book ended with a new rainfall, this time dropping eggs of new kinds of monstrous insects.
Hatch begins with the three teens, Anya, Seth, and Petra, being taken from their parents into an underground bunker somewhere in America. The meet other children just like them. As they get stronger physically from the programs in place to learn more about them, they discover that they have telepathy. The person in control of the facility there, Dr Ritter, has nefarious plans for all of them. While they are underground the insects are multiplying and evolving to become larger and more dangerous. They manage to escape and most are rescued and returned to Deadman's Island military base where they are kept hidden from Dr Ritter and other governmental agencies. Seth and four other teens didn't make it. Anya has been contacted by one of the aliens who claims to want to work with them to save the planet and in turn, save themselves.
This is so intense that when I started reading it, I couldn't put it down. I don't know how I going to be able to survive until May 4th, when Thrive, the third in this series, is published.
By the end of it, scientists, with the help of three hybrid teenagers, seemed to have a pesticide to control them. The book ended with a new rainfall, this time dropping eggs of new kinds of monstrous insects.
Hatch begins with the three teens, Anya, Seth, and Petra, being taken from their parents into an underground bunker somewhere in America. The meet other children just like them. As they get stronger physically from the programs in place to learn more about them, they discover that they have telepathy. The person in control of the facility there, Dr Ritter, has nefarious plans for all of them. While they are underground the insects are multiplying and evolving to become larger and more dangerous. They manage to escape and most are rescued and returned to Deadman's Island military base where they are kept hidden from Dr Ritter and other governmental agencies. Seth and four other teens didn't make it. Anya has been contacted by one of the aliens who claims to want to work with them to save the planet and in turn, save themselves.
This is so intense that when I started reading it, I couldn't put it down. I don't know how I going to be able to survive until May 4th, when Thrive, the third in this series, is published.