Summary: Adam has more than inherited his mother’s curse: When he looks in someone’s eyes, he not only sees the date of their death…he feels the searing, shocking pain of it. Since Jem died, Adam has lived by the sea with his great-grandmother, Val. But when rising tides flood the coast, they return to London. The city is an alien, exciting, frightening place. Most disturbing of all, Adam can’t help but clock how many people’s numbers are in January 2027; how many are on New Year’s Day. What chaos awaits the world? Can he and Sarah stop a catastrophe? Or are they, too, counted among the “twenty-sevens”?
My Thoughts: Now this is more like it! Much, much, MUCH better than Numbers was. I think this was closer to what I was expecting with the first book. Something big is coming, and the numbers Adam sees are clues. Then there’s Sarah, who also sees clues – through recurring nightmares. We get to see both their perspectives in alternating sections. It is so cool, watching everything fall into place, all of the pieces woven together. I love how their separate stories come together and complete each other.The suspense builds, and it quickly becomes a book that is very hard to put down!
One thing I didn’t like was the very beginning chapter, which really didn’t seem to fit. I understand that it’s part context, but I think it could have been explained by a few lines in the narrative. It didn’t really fit with the rest of the book.
Favorite Quotes: I don’t do this for every book I read, just when there’s something that really strikes a chord. There was one in particular in this book.
I want to say the right thing, make it all better. But there are some things that no one can make better. And there are some times when words just won’t be enough. ~ pages 335-336 (ARC)
My Rating: 4.5 stars
Source: Received through Book It Forward ARC Tours for review.
Read It: Get your own copy of The Chaos HERE.
Challenges: Counts for the 100 Books in a Year Reading Challenge and the 2nds Challenge (second in a series AND second book I read by Rachel Ward).
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Good to hear that this is better than the first one, which I thought was ok, but made me feel like the rest of the book only existed to make the last line or two work…
Yeah, I didn’t like the first one very much, either.