Unforgotten

Gr 9 Up—Sera awakes to a clear morning on the outskirts of 1609 London, with her boyfriend, Zen, lying beside her. Zen is the son of a scientist working for Diotech, a group that created Sera in the year 2115. She is a trillion-dollar genetically engineered masterpiece: beautiful, fast, strong, and brilliant. Diotech didn't expect that Sera would fall in love with Zen and flee its machinations. The teens escaped by "transession" also known as traveling through time. This entry picks up after the cliffhanger ending of the series opener, Unremembered (Farrar, 2013). Now living in a time without tracking technology, the lovebirds hope to enjoy their new hideaway. Sera, however, attracts the attention of superstitious villagers while saving an ailing Zen from a crashing apple cart with her superhuman abilities, and she is found guilty of witchcraft. As the protagonist is being burned at the stake, Diotech transesses her to 2032 New York. Once there, Sera must save Zen from a mysterious illness while at the mercy of Diotech's newest superhuman creation, Kaelen. Though inexplicably attracted to handsome Kaelen, she knows she can't trust her feelings. Teens are sure to enjoy this romantic sci-fi adventure full of drama and plot twists. Sera is a well-developed main character who is empathetic as she carries readers through her story as fast as her superhuman legs can take her.—Mindy Whipple, West Jordan Library, UT