This was a great read and something a bit different... no vampires in sight! The story starts with Kirra Hayward a 16yr old student who is smart and excels in Maths & Science. Unfortunately she doesn't have any real friends.
She is given a task in her maths class to create a puzzle and when she goes online she discovers an unusual decrypting puzzle. She doesn't know who has put it there or what it means but when the numbers jump out at ther clearly, she decides to fill in the code and press send.
That is when her life changes forever. Shortly after completing the code she feels she is being watched and then she is kidnapped and taken from her family half way across the world. She finds out her ability to solve the puzzle has landed her in this bizarre situation where she is tortured and put in a freezing cell and made to solve other codes. She learns she is one of only three others in the world that can break these important security codes.
Kirra has no idea if she will ever see her family
again and doesn't know who she can trust. The plot thickens when another
prisoner, a boy named Milo, is thrown into her cell and he seems to be able to
break codes like her.
This is a fantastic story, the first in a trilogy by
this young debut author who grew up in Melb. and studies creative writing at
RMIT.
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