Jem has an unwanted gift of seeing people’s death date! The first number she saw was her mother’s, who died of an overdose when Jem was only 6 years old. Jem has never really forgiven her mother for abandoning her to wander from one foster family to the next. She has a rule don’t create a lasting relationship with anyone because let’s be honest how do you make a connection when you know they will be dead in a month, 5 years, or 50 years. This is until she makes an exception for a boy named Spider who has a death date approaching in a few weeks. Will she continue on her adventure with Spider or runaway from another relationship to live an isolated life?
My Opinion
I was intrigued by the main character of Numbers with her “gift/curse” and was hoping to have a more complicated layered character. Instead Jem turns out to be your typical teenager with mountains of drama and angst. Jem had a little too much whine in her conversations for me to really be intrigued by her story. I understand she has to deal with a lot for her age but instead of finding solutions she just gets herself into more trouble. Maybe I need to be more sympathetic but I do tend to enjoy stronger characters that find solutions to their problems or try to make their lives better even when it means being a rebel! Numbers overall was a mediocre story Ward could have really played up Jem’s unique talent but just made it secondary to the main plot (teenage romance), which didn’t hold my interest.
Numbers 2: The Chaos Due out March 1 2011
Numbers 3: Infinity Due June 2011 Future Publication dates are not always exact
I checked this book out at my local library Lafayette Public Library
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