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Gabrielle is a climate-change activist who shoots to fame when she becomes the first teenager to display a supernatural ability to grow plants from her skin. Hester is the millionaire daughter of an oil tycoon and the face of the family business. Theo comes from a long line of fishermen, but his parents are struggling to make ends meet. On the face of it, the three have very little in common. Yet when Hester and Theo join Gabrielle and legions of other teenagers around the world in developing the strange new "Greenfingers" power, it becomes clear that to use their ability for good, they'll need to learn to work together. But in a time of widespread corruption and greed, there are plenty of profit-hungry organizations who want to use the Greenfingers for their own ends. And not everyone would like to see the Earth saved... As they navigate first love and family expectations, can the three teenagers pull off the ultimate heist and bring about a green rising? ?Lauren James is a genius.? SFX Magazine ?Lauren James isn?t just headed for the stars - she?s already there.? Samantha Shannon, author of The Priory of the Orange Tree. No library descriptions found. |
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7/10, now that I look back at it this wasn't the best sci-fi book ever but it was still enjoyable despite all its flaws and there were a lot of them. The story itself was super predictable and I could see where it was going as I read on, it sometimes dragged with some slower scenes and the characters were not fleshed out but they got the job done; at least the world-building was intriguing and that helped me get through this book sometimes. It was about the two main characters Theo and Hester who suddenly got weird plant powers from nowhere and others got them so they all got together to understand and develop their powers further but I still didn't know why they had them until they discovered a company mutated them to have powers and they did a bunch of other shady stuff and the characters stopped them eventually. I liked that the book mentioned some protests against the company and there was still a long way to go to undo the damages that they made and the antagonist rich boy named Edgar Warren was kind of interesting. However, the whole message about the environment was kind of shoved in my face sometimes rather than letting me get the message myself which wasn't a good aspect of the book but it didn't matter much. If you like a story about the environment this one is for you. ( )