This novel tells the story of Elena Mendoza, a teenage girl who was born of a virgin mother (look it up, it's called parthenogenesis). While her life has been pretty normal to this point, things are about to get much stranger. When the girl that she has a crush on is shot in the stomach outside of Starbucks, the voices that she has heard all of her life tell her that she has the ability to heal this girl. When she does just that, her life takes a major turn.
The voices tell her that through her ability to heal, she is the only one who can save humanity from the coming apocalypse. But each time she heals someone, it comes with a cost to strangers all over the world. What Elena has to figure out what her role in all of this is and if using her newfound ability is really for the benefit of all.
This is an intriguing story line that brings in the ideas of free will and choice and what role those choices play in not only our own lives, but the lives of those around us. It deals with consequences and our understanding of what those consequences mean. It tackles the questions that we face in our daily lives about how we are living and if we are truly making our planet a better place for all. This is a book that is going to make you think.
This novel won't be released until February 6, 2018, so if you want to read it, let me know and I can get you mine.
From Amazon:
From the critically acclaimed author of We Are the Ants and At the Edge of the Universe comes a mind-bending, riveting novel about a teen who was born to a virgin mother and realizes she has the power to heal—but that power comes at a huge cost.
Sixteen-year-old Elena Mendoza is the product of a virgin birth.
This can be scientifically explained (it’s called parthenogenesis), but what can’t be explained is how Elena is able to heal Freddie, the girl she’s had a crush on for years, from a gunshot wound in a Starbucks parking lot. Or why the boy who shot Freddie, David Combs, disappeared from the same parking lot minutes later after getting sucked up into the clouds. What also can’t be explained are the talking girl on the front of a tampon box, or the reasons that David Combs shot Freddie in the first place.
As more unbelievable things occur, and Elena continues to perform miracles, the only remaining explanation is the least logical of all—that the world is actually coming to an end, and Elena is possibly the only one who can do something about it.
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