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12. DUSK, Susan Gates, 2005
I’ll get through this one quickly, since it was a rather short, unremarkable book. Some random military scientists put hawk genes into a girl to test the improvements to eyesight but basically that girl is now more hawk than human. The lab cleaner (who we will call Drunk) discovers her, has a Significant Bonding Experience, then accidentally sets fire to the lab and all the experiment animals escape. A few years later, hawk girl is living in the abandoned adjacent town with a pack of wolves and an army of rats led by an intelligence-enhanced experiment. That would be General Rat, and yes, you will laugh every time he’s mentioned, but I’m pretty sure we’re not meant to.
Then Drunk’s son wonders on in, disrupts the uneasy balance they’ve all got going on, and all goes to hell.
I guess I didn’t get a lot from this book. It was fine, though honestly the rat thing was too silly. I do believe we are meant to be sympathetic towards hawk-girl, which we are; in fact she’d a rather fun character. In drunk’s son we have the return of the compensating male teen, for the most part. And there’s a rather droll relationship-issue thing between the father and son.
To be fair, though, it did keep me entertained for about 2 hours.
However, whenever I think of this book I will also think:
Pinky: So, what are we going to do tonight?
Brain: The same thing we do every night, Pinky. Try to TAKE OVER THE WORLD!
5/10