(Oh, don’t worry, one of those goals IS getting Alex naked at first opportunity.) She‘s come far from the lighthearted girl with a desperate crush we were introduced to at the beginning of Hunting Lila, and maybe, just maybe, this new and improved version has a chance of bringing down her enemies – with a little help from her friends, of course. She is also steadier, more self-assured and entirely focused on her goals. She can move people and even control elements to a degree.

While they’re running, Lila discovers that her telekinetic power isn’t nearly as limited as it originally seemed. People important to them are being held and tortured by Alex’s former employers and they must find a way to rescue them. Lila and Alex are on the run, desperate to hide from the Unit and rejoin their friends. Alderson really allowed her characters to fly free, even when they refused to fly in the right direction. There is plenty of action, yes, but we also get to peek underneath and see dilemmas and insecurities, especially Alex’s. In comparison, its successor is far more layered and emotionally demanding. In my review of Hunting Lila, I described Alderson’s debut as deliciously shallow, and it was.

You can find Sarah on facebook and at or follow her blog at One can always count on Sarah Alderson to amuse, entertain and accelerate heartbeats. She also writes New Adult romance for Pan Macmillan (UK) / Simon & Schuster (US) under the pen name Mila Gray. Her first non-fiction book - CAN WE LIVE HERE? - based on her blog of the same name, was published in August 2015 by Blink. The Sound, a thriller romance set in Nantucket, was published in August 2013 and this was followed by the critically acclaimed Out of Control in May 2014. She finished her first novel, Hunting Lila (winner of the Kingston Book Award), just before they left the UK, wrote the sequel on the beach in India and had signed a two book deal with Simon & Schuster by the time they had reached Bali.Ī third book, Fated, about a teenage demon slayer, was published in January 2012. After several months in India, Singapore, Australia and the US, they settled in Bali where they lived for five years. Having spent most of her life in London, Sarah quit her job in the non profit sector in 2009 and took off on a round the world trip with her husband and princess-obsessed daughter on a mission to find a new place to call home.

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