Adrienne Wilder

Ms Wilder always manages to find just the right balance between a creepy world and unique characters. This time she pulled me into a psychological thriller with a mad man cloning his brother to build a race of mental giants each with specific gifts. A flashback to Hitler perhaps? Other readers have summarized the story so well that I will not bore everyone with another summary. Dr. Stone was the ultimate psychotic genius who had the temerity to play with the human genome and create individual humans that either served his purposes or were summarily destroyed. I liked that none of the Others or Stone's creations had names, they were only numbered. Naturally, Seven was one or the heroes along with Chase. I loved the arrogant and domineering Nine who had his mind in every piece of the pie. This story had a lot of depth and great secondary characters that added to the story. The romance between Seven and Chase was secondary to the plight of the Others which was a nice change. Ms Wilder pulled a HEA out of the mess that was Sub Floor with a finesse that has marked her other books. Highly recommended.… (more)