Stargazer GN

May 15, 2021
Grades 9-12 Years ago, Shae Halstead, her two best friends Adriana and Hailey, and her brother, Kenny, were abducted by "the sky people" and returned, unaware that something had been implanted in them. Years later, the troubled Kenny disappears again, and this sets Shae on a paranoid and psychedelic odyssey into the heart of an alien threat and a government plot. She's not alone, though; as it turns out, these implants allow Shae, Adriana, and Hailey to share their minds and their memories, as well as the memory of something called the Sky Mind. The secret of the Sky Mind and the circumstances behind their original abduction offer Stargazer its freshest narrative turns. Very well paced but not particularly rich in character, the book cultivates much of its humanity from its realistically idiosyncratic faces and figures, often swathed in lurid reds and caught in the midst of surreal tableaux that imbue Stargazer with a sense of dream-like menace, as well as its primary thrills and fun. Works great as a quick, creepy diversion.

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