No Safety in Numbers

**This book will not be released until May 29, 2012**


Dayna Lorentz has finally made her Young Adult debut, and it sure is a winner! I was lucky enough to get an unedited version of the book and read it in advance! In this new take on a classic topic, Lorentz takes us through the agony of a quarantine in a very busy suburban mall in Westchester, New York. Thousands of people have been trapped inside because the Senator messed up protocol - instead of evacuating, she quarantined. Oh, and did I mention that the reason they are being held prisoners in the mall is because some crazy person decided to stick a bomb to the mall's ventilation shaft? The story takes place over a week's time and follows four teenagers - Marco, Shay, Ryan, and Lexi - who find there own ways out and face their own problems. Of course, Dayna had to include the usual topic in a YA adult novel: a subtle love triangle. Although it is not as prominent as other books (in fact you may not notice it like I did) it is still there. 


Let me introduce you to our four rambunctious teens:
Marco is that kid who gets made fun of constantly, the one who is the always the butt of the football team's jokes. Roped into working at his job the entire quarantine, he just wants to get out. 
Shay is the odd one, the girl that the entire football team would want to date just because of her eccentricities and her looks. She is stuck in the hell-hole with her grandmother, Nani, and her younger sister, Preeti.
Ryan is part of the in-crowd, the football team. After falling for Shay and numerous escape attempts, the future looks like a cell for Ryan.
Lexi is the Senator's daughter, and she is none too happy about it. All she wants is to fix the problem she is faced with, especially when her mother tells her the sickness is just the flu. 


I read this book rather quickly because it was so intriguing that I could not put it down. I was reading at every possible second I had. I can't tell you too much because the book hasn't been released to the public just yet. I can tell you that it is packed with riots, a little romance, and a look into what happens to the American public when they only options are survive or die. If you want to find out whether or not a cure is found, whether the mysterious flu that is turning people blue (seriously) finds its way to the outside, and whether or not our main characters survive, pick yourself up a copy of No Safety In Numbers on May 29th! (The last chapter will send your brain reeling!)


Thanks to Stacey at Dial Books for sending this to me!